(ThyBlackMan.com) Our culture is obsessed with beauty. While some women are purchasing an ethnic standard of beauty with fuller lips, larger eyes, and round, full butts; others are running toward the euro-culture standard of long hair, skin lightening, and fat removal. As women, we cannot afford to fall for standards ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In the years after enslavement, Southern Whites did all they could to return to a manner of slavery. No White “owned” a Black person, but many Whites behaved as if they did. Theoretically, Blacks were free to come and go as they pleased, but if they went to the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Over the past few months there have been several news stories about no Blacks owning major broadcast TV stations anymore. The cries have bordered on mass hysteria. It turns out that the story is not true. Most of this hysteria in the media has been created by a Free ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Here’s how the latest episode of the debt ceiling drama will end: Congress will raise or suspend the country’s borrowing limit, probably for as much as a year. The debt ceiling problem is something that must be solved, and solved soon. People in and out of Congress need to ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) One of the easiest ways to keep black people enslaved in America is by enslaving our minds. Barred from an adequate education or true sense of history, many of us are wired to love our oppressors more than we love ourselves. Even during Black History Month, you’re quite ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) If you regularly fly United Airlines, then you may want to take advantage of some of the credit card offers out there that reward you with United Airlines miles for every purchase you make. By combining your United MileagePlus Explorer card with the Chase Sapphire Preferred card, you can ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) With specific emphasis on Howard University, let’s consider a few solutions to the challenges HBCU’s face. There are some who say HBCU’s are irrelevant and no longer necessary because we are living in a “post-racial” society, mainly because a Black man was elected President by a majority of white people. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) At some point during the mid 1990s, while working in the Detroit Free sports department, I told a colleague that my favorite hockey player was Mike Grier. The colleague was a bit surprised by my statement because I had never shown much interest in hockey. Afterwards, the colleague began ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Sometimes all you need to do to get yourself out of a rut is to look at things from a different perspective. What challenge is causing you stress? What dilemma has you stumped for a solution? What issue has caused you a bit of frustration lately? This week, I ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In the tradition of Sarah Palin, black tea party leader Katrina Pierson is a beautiful God, family, country and Constitution loving conservative Republican. Fearless and outspoken, Pierson’s inspiring life story nukes the Democrats’ mythical Republican War on Women. Sad that I even have to go there, Pierson’s skin-color derails ...