(ThyBlackMan.com) The foremost blessing and the most prominent curse of being an African-American Studies Professor begin and end at the same source, my students. I have repeatedly stated on this site that I consider it a privilege to teach Black collegians for the past two decades. Considering the joy that ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Love is both a noun and a verb. If love, the noun, is an intense feeling of deep affection, self, the noun, one’s essential being that distinguishes them from other women, and your, an adjective, meaning belonging or associated with a person, then “Love Your Self” takes new meaning. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Many people who profess to be “of faith” are involved in religion for the wrong reasons. They’re not about love; they’re about hating everybody who don’t think exactly like they do. They use religion to justify their bigotry, as a “God-approved” reason to hate everybody who’s not on “their team,” ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Rappers Lil Wayne, Jay-Z, Kanye West, “P” Diddy, 50 Cent, and hip-hop businessmen Russell Simmons, and Robert Johnson, just to name a few, are members of the 100 Million Dollar Club—Robert Johnson perhaps being the lone billionaire. The accomplishments that each has attained is remarkable; however, the means to ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In a recent interview movie director Quentin Tarantino’s perspective relative to usage of the N-word in his movies are arrogant and disdainful; however, it was Samuel Jackson who wanted Tarantino to use the denigrating term more than he did in the movie Django. Had it been left up to ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I was raised to be a Christian, but I never go to church, because even as a kid I couldn’t buy into talkin’ snakes. I wanted to believe it, because I was taught that if I didn’t the Bogey Man was gonna get me, but try as I might, the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) You may want to write this down because I don’t say it very often. Perhaps we should follow the shining example of the Republican Party in one very significant way. The Grand Old Party – formerly known as the “party of Lincoln” – abolished the sinister practice of slavery ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I happened to be informed of a ‘cute’ term recently. It’s called #adulting. Or, just ‘adulting’ for short. I Googled the term, and found that this term had been around since the mid-teens. In short, it means that our millennial generation young men and young women are to get ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Several years ago black actor and activist Danny Glover, presented Hollywood with a movie script about the Haitian General Toussaint Louverture, leader of the Black Jacobins and the Haitian Revolution that stunned the world but—Hollywood refused to back the film. The reason given: There were no white heroes! Hollywood’s ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) There once was a time when you could only go to White Women for certain “ lewd acts or services ” and they were known for certain behavior. Now, as Black Women, we are willing to prove that we are JUST as filthy as White Women. One of the ...