(ThyBlackMan.com) Several months ago, I was on Facebook, killing time out of boredom. Suddenly, one of the meaner type of anti-Obama posts caught my eye. Curiosity got the better of me and I delved into the source, one of those “Obama Hater” groups. So began my descent into a particularly ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In his book THE CASE FOR DEMOCRACY, Natan Sharansky, a former Soviet political prisoner released from prison by Mikhail Gorbachev in 1986 wrote “A society is free if people have a right to express their views without fear of arrest, imprisonment, or physical harm.” He also added, “A society ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) With this Article I want to address the nation-wide seriousness of the Dead Beat Father Syndrome. This is a sickness that has destroyed generation after generation of young girls without any justice being given to these children. And yes it affects young boys as well, but boys have a stronger tolerance for ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Words like sissy and f** can often be heard in the black community to describe a man who falls outside the comparatively restrictive confounds of black male masculinity. However, why black men in particular focus on masculinity more than their other racial counterparts is often misunderstood. Two theories seek ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In a 2010 report titled, Lifting as we Climb: Women of Color, Wealth, and America’s Future, posted by Insight – Center for community and Economic Development, a startling and unbelievable statistic was cited. Written by Mariko Chang, Ph.D., with the help of Meizhu Lui, Director of the Closing the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) You can be somebody.. Every word in these blogs is written with the hope that you will read something that will spark something in you. I am trying to get you to see you. Because right now you are in a dark place, you are like a person in ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Last year, filmmaker Antoine Fuqua made statements shutting down anyone who somehow believed that Hollywood might be racist. These remarks may have been made and forgotten by those wo are hellbent on comfortable assimiliation, but I found myself disturbed by what I was hearing. According to Fuqua, the racism ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In this article I want to point out a serious problem in our country that goes virtually unspoken of in the mainstream American Conversation. And at this point this problem can literally be considered a ” Plague ” and that plague being Mental Illness. The National Institute of Mental ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) By now, the latest Hot 97 fiasco is already old news. The station’s annual Summer Jam occurred, stupidity ensued, Chuck D took to Twitter to express his disgust with Hot 97?s misrepresentation of Hip Hop, and the station’s morning hosts, Ebro and Rosenberg, proceeded to insult Chuck by questioning his position ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) You might ask and it would not be out of line what the heck is going on?! Well, for one thing this ailing economy as previously predicted is not being properly managed by the Obama administration (https://thyblackman.com/2014/01/14/tough-economic-times-aheadand-not-just-for-blacks/). Right now the economy looks like a patient who has gotten ...