(ThyBlackMan.com) Of course African American lives matter – and they should matter first and foremost to African Americans. I say African American lives matter because we are not black. Black is the color of my car tires, not my skin. Black is a term used by our people who do ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) There an issue in the black community that we don’t like to talk about- mental illness. It has become a kind of taboo amongst black folks, and it is a shame because having a real conversation about the subject serves as a benefit. For this reason and so many ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I was a teacher. Among other things, I taught Special Education. I’ve always been told “Once a teacher, always a teacher,” so I decided to give Donald Trump a little instructional upgrade. Everybody knows that when Donald Trump was asked by a reporter if he would disavow David Duke, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) We all have a right to our feelings, and opinions. However this doesn’t make them fact nor should we always act on them. Throughout our history in this country, as Black People, we have been fighting oppression. So many different leaders have been at the head of harming us ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) It is bad enough that evolutionists and humanists don’t know, or don’t admit to, the truth of the origins of our universe, Earth, and modern mankind. Dogs will be dogs. They purposely deny the truth, to try to give credibility to their false religion of Atheism. Their future fate ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Permit me please to paraphrase Mahatma Gandhi. First they oppose you. Then they ridicule you. Then they ignore you. Then you win. This has been the 85-plus year history of the Nation of Islam in North America. First established on July 4, 1930, in the Heavenly Valley neighborhood of ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Oh yes, those were troubled times during the decades of the 1960’s and 1970’s. When Beyoncé gave tribute to the 50th Anniversary of the start of the Black Panther Movement, I thought, “She doesn’t know what she is celebrating.” A look back at the years of the Black Panthers ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I saw it on Facebook. These two Black women at a Trump rally expressing their support for “The Donald.” I realized, once again, that there is a certain type of emotional naiveté that I possess when it comes to our people. I assume that in light of the history ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Women entrepreneurs have a powerful role model when they consider Madam C.J. Walker. One of our nation’s first female self-made millionaires, her story of combining herbs to develop and manufacture a hair pomade, of empowering tens of thousands of women as sales agents for her products, and of establishing ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Put two people in the same set of adversarial circumstances and you will likely get two very different responses to their environment. One person will likely think in dire terms while the other will think optimistically. Why? Neuroscience is now confirming what we’ve suspected for quite some time: The ...