(ThyBlackMan.com) I heard a child the other day ask his mother why Donald Duck comes out of the shower with a towel on? “Ducks live in the water. Why do they need showers?” she asked. I thought it was insightful, and funny, that a little kid who couldn’t have been ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “It’s amazing I’m in this maze with you/I just can’t crack your code/One day you’re screaming you love me loud/The next day you’re so cold/One day you’re here, one day you’re there, one day you care/You’re so unfair/sipping from your cup/‘Til it runneth over/Holy Grail.” So goes the hook ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) One of the best kept secrets over the past 50 years is that, proportionately, Republicans in Congress supported passage of the landmark 1964 Civil Rights Act by a much wider margin than Democrats. As CNN.com reported, “The Guardian’s Harry J. Enten broke down the vote, showing that more than 80% of Republicans ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) At this time last year, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), the black unemployment rate was 13.2 per cent and the United States economy created 88,000 new jobs. As we look back at those stats, the economy is now moving in the right direction as the March ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Matthew Knowles, Beyonce’s father and former manager, has dirty laundry that has been all out in the public for years and many are taking different stances in the classic case of an affair gone terribly wrong. In case you haven’t been following the story, Alexsandra Wright is the woman ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Starting on July 16th 1994, and lasting for seven days, twenty fragments of Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 were observed crashing into Jupiter, with one extra impact not being seen. There were three more fragments that were lost tract of, making it twenty-four fragments in all. My interpretation of the event ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I was admittedly not surprised to find out about the deep connections between Rev. Al Sharpton, the FBI and the mafia. I’ve read things, heard things and seen things that gave me an awkward feeling when I spent time with him in New York. At the same time, I’ve ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Unlike most folk of my ilk (poverty stricken African Americans), I find it troubling that we have given our Federal government the ability to make us buy a flawed product, or any product regardless if we want to or not. But putting that aside, I want to briefly discuss ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I speak at DePaul University tomorrow. They have a marketing class that wants to know how we were able to get Mountain Dew to cancel their sponsorship of Lil Wayne’s world tour last year. I hated the idea of taking money out of the hands of another black man, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) ‘Clap along if you feel like a room without a roof because I’m happy’ -Pharrell Williams Do you know someone who is always happy? Is it possible to always be in a happy mode? Are you happy right now? Happiness means different things to different people. One person may regard ...