(ThyBlackMan.com) The revelations by former Essence Magazine editor Constance White both intrigued and concerned me. Not to say that I was surprised, but I admittedly long for the days when my friend Susan Taylor stood at the helm of the magazine, and Essence represented something black, extraordinary and authentic. There was a ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Bill O’Reilly is to the news world what a Justin Bieber headline is to a non-Belieber; after a while, the redundancy can and will take a toll mentally. To further add mental restraint onto the pile of already yay-high Bill O’ Reilly discrepancies, O’Reilly decides to attack Beyoncé’s resurgence, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Every since the Donald Sterling scandal erupted, conservative Republicans have been all over the airways and social media declaring that Donald Sterling was a Democrat, and that proves their ongoing contention that it is the Democrats who had the racist past, and it is the Democrats who are the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Let’s be clear: I don’t hate white people. In fact, many of my best friends are white (yes, that was a joke, since I hear this often said about black people). I have a view of white America that is not built on being unnecessarily angry at anyone, but ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The saga of Cliven Bundy is a story that captures a moment in modern American political, social and racial attitudes. It is a story that has gotten much attention in the press recently and as most stories do in our modern age, it has divided people along political and ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) As I write this, President Obama has ended his Asian tour (sounds rockstaresque). Although he was met by major protest nearly everywhere he went, from the Philippines where protestors were sprayed with water hoses to Malaysia, his main worry continues to be how to deal with Japan, an ally ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) On his March 14th appearance on the Arsenio Hall Show, Kid Cudi criticized, as he termed it, the “money, cash, hoes” hip hop of contemporary music and suggested new content for those artists to pursue. However, his critique offered something else: an alternative expression of masculinity connected with emotion ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) There seems to be ominous plot to not only effeminize the black man, but to get rid of his masculinity altogether. It seems like the media, the music industry and Hollywood is steadily promoting the gender-less, integrated black man, who doesn’t mind “fitting in” just to be socially accepted. This should ...