(ThyBlackMan.com) Christopher Dorner is a canvas onto which we can project our national anxieties and obsessions. Christopher Dorner is racialized as an African American. He is gendered as a male. Christopher Dorner represents authority, conformity, and State power, as a (former) police officer. Those identities are intersectional. For some, Christopher ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Happy Love Week! That’s what I like to call the week of Valentine’s Day. While we tend to make Valentine’s Day all about chocolate and candlelight dinners, love is so much more than tingly feelings and romance. In fact, I don’t think love is much about feelings at all. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) As I look at the society of Africa America today, one statistic among many has special significance to me. According to the Census Bureau, 70.1% of all Black households with a family of four had the woman as the head of the house in 2011. In 1960 only 17.6% ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) No, I am not talking about catfish or people faking profiles online. I will cover that in later posts. But today I am discussing Business Etiquette and your professional image! This will help ensure that your online persona gels with how you want to be perceived offline. Social Media ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Since the shooting death of 15-year old honor student Hadiya Pendleton, millions of black and brown eyeballs have turned toward the White House, wondering if there is a racial disparity between our beloved president’s reaction to the deaths of white vs. black children. Millions saw the president cry in ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) As a child, I was taught that you catch more flies with honey than vinegar. Dad’s particular corollary — pick your battles, as it’s not always worth it to be “right” — has served him well in the Army, so I’ve long aspired to apply its wisdom to my ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Deion Sanders, one of the greatest men to ever touch a football, has come out pretty hard against the push for safety in the NFL. Sanders seems to be taking issue with the players who are starting to speak out about the long-term brain damage that often caused by ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Just imagine someone in your family travelling half way across the country to help a family they don’t know nor have any connection to; while at the same time his own family is in crisis. Just imagine how you would feel if your family barely had food to eat, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) As an African-American evangelical woman, Beyonce’s performance last night was pretty bittersweet for me. Quite simply it was both exhilarating and excruciating. Exhilarating because as a supremely talented black woman on a world stage surrounded by a plethora of talented black women, Beyonce and Co. were making history. (Even ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) If you’re black and heartily supported President Barack Obama’s bid for re-election, I have some news for you. Barack Obama is NOT your president and you are not meant to get much of anything for your vote. He’s not the president of black America, so the fact that you ...