(ThyBlackMan.com) A young African-American male stands next to an expensive car around midnight. What do we think? How many people think he is up to something and he does not own the vehicle? A police officer pulls you over for a traffic stop. How many people automatically think he knows ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The 50th Anniversary of Bloody Sunday, the Selma to Montgomery March, and the passage of the historic Voting Rights Act of 1965 and Dr. Martin Luther King’s role in these events is correctly capturing the imagination of Black America. However, there is another set of events that should also ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) As if we needed any more evidence, President Obama’s recent meeting with members of the Congressional Black Caucus revealed a deep-seated hostility toward the plight of struggling Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). According to Lauren Victoria Burke’s Black Caucus blog, CrewOf42.com, “President Obama was critical of Historically Black ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) If you believe every conspiracy is just a theory with no verifiable facts, stop reading this article now. If you are afraid of the truth and you believe ignorance is bliss, stop reading this article now. But if you want to know the truth, the why and the what ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) For centuries in this country, Black men have been predominantly targeted and harassed in this country on the basis of skin color and an overly sensitized prejudicial stigma of criminalization deeply rooted back to the times of slavery. Slave owners and locally organized “slave patrols” utilized violence as a ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Recently Steve Harvey, Charles Barkley and NBA hall of famer Karl Malone have all made flippant comments on the issue of slavery and its relevance to todays black America. Steve Harvey has since issued an after-the-fact pseudo clarification of what he meant. Neither Barkley nor Malone have said anything ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “I guess it just seemed like the next thing to do.” That’s how a man recently described how he ended up in a marriage that didn’t last long. Eleven months, to be exact. “We had been dating for a few years.” In other words, the couple bought into the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Break your life down for a second. You have 24 hours in a day, 168 hours in a week and 8,760 hours in a year. At least one third of each day is spent sleeping (about 8 hours). Out of the other 16 hours, most people spend at least ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) 1 There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens: 2 a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot, 3 a time to kill and a time to ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Bashing white America and stirring the pot of racial discord has become in vogue all year round. But every February, the usual suspects (race profiteers and America haters) use Black History Month to double down on their rhetoric. Their operatives who control our public schools lay guilt trips on ...