(ThyBlackMan.com) “In the fell clutch of circumstance I have not winced nor cried aloud. Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody, but unbowed.” Those words are from the second stanza of the William Ernest Henley poem “Invictus.” Mr. Henley – a noted Victorian English poet – wrote this ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) There is probably nothing more culturally or psychologically annihilating within the black community than the scourge of skin bleaching (aka skin whitening). Its growing popularity is proof positive that many black people have replaced the anthem “I’m black and I’m proud” with “I’m a loser baby, so why don’t ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Chicago Bulls guard Derrick Rose made one heck of a public statement by showing up to a game wearing a t-shirt with the words, “I can’t breathe” on it before a Saturday game against the Golden State Warriors. The shirt was a tribute to the late Eric Garner, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) It was after dark. I was taking a short cut to the convenience store through an alley. Ahead of me, a middle-aged white woman was walking down a side street and started to enter the alley. Upon realizing that I would be walking behind her, she made a quick ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In the theoretical practices of both games and economics, the term zero-sum is used to describe the mathematical representation of a situation in which a participant’s gain (or loss) of utility is exactly balanced by the losses (or gains) of the utility of all other participants. Currently, this model ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) If your life is anything like my own, you know that both success and failure each carry their own set of challenges and opportunities. Being black only serves to compound these issues, because African Americans have an economic history that is littered with the symptoms of severe, long-term racial ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) As an author, entrepreneur, minister, father, teacher, freelance journalist, and an all around professional black man, this writer has seen firsthand the negative effects of racism and bigotry in Urban America. People like me are routinely labeled angry or militant when speaking out against the horror of inequality in ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In light of the recent Ferguson, Missouri, grand jury decision to not indict Officer Darren Wilson for killing Michael Brown, a common denominator associated with all other injustices African Americans face—including others also being unnecessarily killed at the hands of police officers—all across the American landscape was once again ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I’ve been racking my brain for years trying to figure out why black entertainers are expected to be great role models and leaders. It’s interesting that only within the black community does one who seeks “success” owe something back to the black community. I often wonder where this notion ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) We are in an apostolic and a prophetic age. In order for us to really move into what God has said belongs to us, it’s going to take certain levels of impartation and certain people whom the Father has designated to impart these things to us. I can’t teach ...