(ThyBlackMan.com) It’s about time Bill Maher responded to Wayne Brady. Not because he owes Brady any sort of explanation or apology for his previous jokes about Brady’s supposed lacking Black male fortitude. Bill Maher needs to respond because he has never been reticent to respond to the likes of a ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “Lead us not into temptation,” goes The Lord’s Prayer. But in the Black community, those who pose as “leaders” do nothing but lead us into the wrong ways. Why? Because they are all about the cash. Take one Jesse “Cut the nuts” Jackson, who discovered early on that he ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Dudley Randall’s poem, “It seems to me, said Booker T; I disagree, said W.E.B.” points out an issue that has plagued Black folks for generations. During Booker T’s time, some Blacks said he was working “for the man” as he tried to build an economic foundation for his people ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Although the dictionary calls it archaic, the “management of a household” is one of the definitions listed for the word “economy.” Another definition is “a saving or attempt to reduce expenditures.” Yet another is “a system of interacting elements, especially when seen as being harmonious.” And still another definition ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) A week after the great debate over whether Charles Ramsey is an American hero or another American casualty of media-induced racial stereotyping or both after helping save the lives of the three kidnapped Cleveland women, one thing is now clear. Ramsey has done the seemingly impossible. He’s turned racial ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Recently the unemployment numbers were published for April. Those numbers from the Bureau of Labor Statistics indicated the black unemployment rate was reduced from 13.3% to 13.2%. The national unemployment rate fell also from 7.6% to 7.5%, while white unemployment remained unchanged and well below double-digit rates at 6.7%. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) When I moved to Maryland in 2003, my father serendipitously received a promotion to move from Colorado to nearby northern Virginia. We had not lived in the same city since I graduated from high school and I was excited that he’d be just 20 miles away. Despite the close ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Every culture, religion, ethnicity, and shade of human existence praises mothers. Don’t get it twisted Mothers Day is every day globally. “Honor your father and mother, which is the first commandment with promise: that it may be well with you and you may live long on the earth.” Ephesians 6:2, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Exactly when Venus, Neptune, Earth, and Mars are in line, which is about once every 20 years at this point, Hip-Hop enters a Golden Era. Hip-Hop’s first Golden Era came approximately 13 years after the artform’s inception and lasted longer than most critics and fans originally gave it props ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) King David impregnated Uriah’s wife. Then, David ordered that Uriah be killed to cover up his sin. When confronted about his evil by the prophet of God, David fessed-up, repented and begged God to forgive him. We are all capable of evil. Though King David was a flawed human ...