(ThyBlackMan.com) A woman reached out to me on my Facebook page and asked an interesting question. She asked me if dark-skinned women are “frowned upon.” I wasn’t sure what to think about the question, but it certainly gave me a moment of pause. She said that she has a ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Yvette Carnell recently wrote an article with the title, “Bloomberg: Blacks Wrongly Believe Obama Made Their Lives Better.“ The article references the fact that many African Americans, because of their deep love and loyalty for President Obama, are typically disconnected from quality-of-life indicators that would determine how effective he ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The relationship game is a difficult one to play and becomes even more difficult when you consider what happens when you lock yourself into situations that are not good for you. You can find yourself hating your life and wishing that God had created a time machine that allows ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Hardly a week goes by when there is not a tragic story of a teenager committing suicide. Tragic as these deaths are, there is absolutely no causation between bullying and suicide. The media’s simplistic and sensational coverage of these teenage deaths are very problematic in this regard. Suicide is ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The GOP controlled House Ways and Means is the first of the three GOP congressional committees “investigating” Obamacare to try and pulverize it–again. GOP committee members pounded hard on the stock GOP hit points; it’s a mess because of a lousy computer system, thousands have gotten sticker shock after ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) HBCU’s have made enormous strides in education; preparing, qualifying, certifying and empowering young men and women that have chosen teaching as their choice of career. Either by personal choice, family heritage or passion for helping youth; educators and education are unquestionably the foundation for any progressive society to succeed. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The unemployment numbers for September are finally in and as predicted blacks did not fare well (https://thyblackman.com/2013/09/30/bleak-economic-outlook-for-blacks-based-on-feds-actions/). There is no question; blacks as a working group are in dire straits. When you include the Bush administration, blacks have experienced double-digit unemployment for the last six years without interruption. They ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Although Halloween is days away, a trio of men and women recently decided to display their holiday foolishness early. According to numerous reports, a photo of a group in distasteful Halloween “attire” was uploaded to Caitlin Cimeno’s Facebook account (which has since been deleted). In the photo are two ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Sometimes, I am genuinely baffled as it relates to the political aspirations of the Republican Party these days. What is their plan? Do they even have a plan? Who are its architects? What’s their endgame? How does the American people factor into said plan? Conventional wisdom holds that if ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The rapper Jay-Z is clearly, beyond reasonable doubt (get it?), one of the most talented hip-hop artists in history. Scratch that. He’s one of the most talented musicians to have ever lived. His rise to grace has been like a rocket ship, and gives him the right to ...