(ThyBlackMan.com) Dear Incarcerated Brothers, greetings from a fellow brother in the struggle, though I remain on the “free” side of those cold steel bars. It might seem strange: Me speaking out to you from a news column. But in the spirit of Brother Malcolm X, I am reaching out “by ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The carnage, genocide, poverty, and famine on the supposedly poorest continent on the Earth was derived from her richness in natural resources. For more than 3,000 years, Africa has been stripped of her intellectual properties, natural resources and physical labor. The colonial education system has done an ingenious job, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin once purportedly said about Hitler that, “He didn’t know when to stop.” That can be said of Trump. In mid-March Trump looked unstoppable. Florida, Louisiana, Arizona had all fallen to him, more and more pledged delegates were piling up by the day in his columns, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) It’s easy to lose heart and become despondent when you suffer a serious injury. Bouncing back might not be as impossible or as challenging as you imagine though. What you need is a solid plan that you can enact. Here’s how to do it. Rest The first thing that ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “I ask again” he said so defiantly, “shall Negro sharecroppers from Mississippi be sent to shoot down brown-skinned peasants in Vietnam…to serve the interests of those who oppose Negro liberation at home and colonial freedom abroad?” – Paul Robeson Preceding Malcolm X or MLK in the valiant struggle for ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Throughout this communique, I invite all of you to co-explore some of the issues profiled within and come to your own conclusions. In January, 2016, The Buffalo Bills hired Ed Reed the former Baltimore Ravens safety who during his playing career was an All-Universe, All-Pro, oh, what the heck; ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) American Blacks must cultivate an entrepreneurial spirit independent of any president in the White House. – Armstrong Williams There is no getting around certain troubling and enduring implications of Black-White differences in America. Is there any question that there are meaningful differences between the races? The typical White household ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I remember a line from Gil Scott-Heron, whom I often quote in my articles. In his rendering called “The Bicentennial Blues,” he was discussing the Nixon administration and this nation’s penchant for getting in on the economic action of other nations. He called Henry Kissinger the “International Godfather of ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) When was the last time you sent a letter to someone in the post? The traditional uses of mail haven’t died out completely, but they’re certainly starting to change. We now use all sorts of ways to send and receive mail, and most of those include technology in some ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) When I published the last blog, “Can White People Play the Blues?”, the reactions were immediate, varied and extreme. What was most interesting to me is the range of reactions of those (mostly white) people who were clearly offended by the mere question. When the blues was a young ...