(ThyBlackMan.com) Steve Alexander spent 32 years in the Telecom industry after graduating from the GTE-Sylvania Tech School, and has been active in Christian ministry for 28 years. His views on the plight of the American inner cities are shaped by over a decade’s worth of experience teaching classes in the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Oozing with contempt, bombast, bravado, and arrogance but void of a plan describes the speech President Barack Obama gave to the Democrat National Convention to justify his re-election. Strutting onto the stage before his adoring base, President Obama launched into the same tirade we’ve heard many times before: class ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) This week, a rapper in Chicago by the name of Jojo made a “diss record” about the rapper Chief Keef. A few days later, the 16-year old rapper was dead. Some think that Jojo’s death certificate was signed when he spoke negatively against Keef, and some of his friends ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The recent jobs data released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics was not necessarily a boost for the Obama Administration. Black unemployment remained steady at 14.1 percent this month. The number is not as high as the 16.7 percent mark from one year ago today, but is still more ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The unemployment numbers for August were published and showed overall black unemployment stuck at 14.1%, while the national unemployment rate dropped from 8.3% to 8.1%. Moving into more detail regarding the numbers, black male unemployment dropped a bit from 14.8% to 14.3%, black women unemployment increased from 11.5% to ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Cornell West and Tavis Smiley were the targets of a lot of vitriol when they launched their “Poverty Tour” and called on the President and the nation to address the issue of rising poverty for all Americans. The vitriol and hate thrown at the two men was not coming ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) This morning, I had to ask myself some hard questions, which I immediately took to my friends on Facebook: Are black people, as a collective, even capable of evaluating our political options objectively? They say that the best way to waste your vote is to stay home or choose ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Tuesday night, as I watched the Democratic convention, I was totally mesmerized. But not for the reasons you might think. For starters, I am obliged to tip my hat to the Democrats. They put on one of the best, if not the best, convention nights I have ever seen ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Sil lai Abrams, the relationship expert at Ebony.com, just wrote an article in which she challenged the notion of the “Ride or die chick.” The “ride-or-die chick” is defined, by some, to be the woman who stands by her man, no matter what. Sometimes, standing by that man might ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) One of the dirtiest Black secrets of all is that Black people have kept themselves enslaved. The enslavement has been perpetuated largely by pretending that there is no racism. But also by passing lies and mythology about ourselves. Many Blacks think we are doing worse than we really are ...