(ThyBlackMan.com) The mop–up of the classroom floor with a black student at Spring Valley High School by canned South Carolina Richland County Deputy Ben Fields ignited two firestorms. The first was over Fields’ physical manhandling of the student. This was seen as yet another instance of black students under relentless ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) No neighbourhood is right for everybody. People aren’t all the same. Both practically and emotionally, they have differing needs. For example, easy access to public transport is a big practical factor for the increasing number of people who don’t have cars. On the level of pure preference, some people ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Planning for retirement may also involve looking at your housing situation to determine if it the best choice for your current and future needs. The decision whether to own or rent during retirement has both financial and emotional aspects that should be considered. Here are a few points to ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) We all love celebrities. Their good looks, relationship woes, and over-the-top personalities make them prime fodder for entertainment even when they don’t mean to be in the public eye. We simply want to know what makes them tick because, well, they seem so different from the average person. One ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In war, one of the first things the enemy does is destroy his adversary’s ability to communicate within its ranks. Chaos likely ensues if a fighting force cannot communicate internally. Individual soldiers end up doing their own thing, left to their own devices; they make decisions based on their ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton wasted no time in a tweet deploring the brutal videotaped assault by fired South Carolina deputy Ben Fields on a black Spring Valley High School student. The tweet had more significance than just a presidential candidate expressing disgust and outrage over the attack. It ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) To a very large degree “street lit” has replaced the burgeoning interest in books on African and African American history and culture displayed in the 1990s. However, graphic tales of sex and violence first began to make their presence felt as far back as the sixties, with the books ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “A massacre kept secret for over 100 years. Now the truth will finally be revealed.” The Wilmington Massacre was a bloody attack on the African-American community by a heavily armed white mob with the support of the North Carolina Democratic Party on November 10, 1898 in the port city ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Recently this month (October, 2015) a school resource officer (former Deputy Ben Fields) attacked a young teenage girl in what he saw as an incident of subduing and arresting her in a classroom. He was wrong. As a former detective, task force commander, executive protection agent, crime prevention specialist, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) It is great to savor the everyday moments, but that doesn’t mean the big moments aren’t important, too. They are. The everyday moments are your journey. The big moments are the destination. They are those moments in which you cross the finish line. And although it is more about ...