(ThyBlackMan.com) “I’d rather have a smart enemy than a stupid ally.” Proverb By now, almost everyone knows Oprah Winfrey received the 2018, Golden Globes’ Cecil B. DeMille award for lifetime achievement. Her acceptance speech was inspiring. It was one of those moments where the right person was on the right stage ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) African American men have arguably been through the roughest time of any gender, race or ethnic group. From slavery to racism to bitter African American women to police brutality to the slanted and biased judicial court system, brothers we have been through it all. Yet we still endured, many of ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) A frequent point I have made in past columns has been about the educational travesty happening on many college campuses. Some people have labeled my observations and concerns as trivial, unimportant and cherry-picking. While the spring semester awaits us, let’s ask ourselves whether we’d like to see repeats of last ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Donald Trump is a menace to society. George Orwell prophetically noted, One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship. That Donald Trump has hijacked American democracy and is using it to reward his cronies and his ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “Everybody’s got to believe in something. I believe I’ll have another beer.” — W.C. Fields Having lost an election they thought they would win and unable to get over it; having been staggeringly wrong about their predictions that a Trump presidency would be the end of global economies; now putting ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) There’s plenty to celebrate in the December Bureau of Labor Statistics report showing black unemployment at 6.8 percent, the lowest ever since they started reporting the data in 1972. President Trump tweeted out his excitement and, of course, took credit for the good news. Has there ever been a politician ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) While being interviewed, I recalled two powerful incidents from many years ago when I sang at monthly Immigration Naturalization Citizenship ceremonies in Maryland. After the thousand or more citizenship applicants in the room took their Oath of Allegiance, the grand finale featured me singing my song, “Celebrate America”. http://bit.ly/2h0Swyv It ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) During the mentoring process, one rarely understands why they are being taught certain things. Oftentimes, one could be convinced that their mentor is insane as they seek to prepare you for a “higher purpose” as the next generation of race men/women. There is no doubt that experience has taught the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Excerpts from the book titled, “The Fix This Time” amazon.com/dp/B00MI3PD2M – Here is what Chuck Schumer, the Minority Leader of the Senate said the Democratic Party needed, after the defeat of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in the presidential election; “Democrats need a strong, bold, sharp-edged, and common-sense economic ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Many are looking for a way to lose weight, and the common thought is you want it done quickly. It is true, you didn’t gain weight overnight and it won’t be lost overnight. Exercise is a reality many have begun to accept to be a necessity in the quest to ...