(ThyBlackMan.com) Ebony Magazine stirred a mini-firestorm of rage when it dredged up an old photo shot of the TV Cosby show family, plopped it on its November cover, and then fractured the picture. The obvious point being that embattled comedian Bill Cosby not only disgraced his legacy but disgraced the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) African Americans have involuntary been elected to be the ambassadors of fried chicken. The stereotype of our love of the seasoned, crispy, and moist bird does hold some truth. Social media is flooded with clips of angry African Americans, throwing temper tantrums upon hearing their local Popeye’s is out ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Here’s my question to you: If an evil person is guaranteed that he can inflict physical pain upon others and guaranteed to never suffer pain himself, what happens to his willingness to inflict pain? You say, “What do you mean, Williams?” OK, I will make my question more concrete. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Old 1960s US Army buddy, acclaimed life coach and author Steve Chandler sent me a copy of his latest book, “Crazy Good.” In his book, Steve points out that embracing a victim mindset has extremely negative consequences; is not empowering and actually weakens you. The validity of Steve’s statement ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Why does it surprise anyone when chaos reigns in America’s inner cities when it just reflects the chaos now reigning in our whole country? I open my dictionary to the word “civilize” and I read: ” 1. to bring out of a condition of savagery or barbarism; to instruct ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Dr. Ben Carson, now second in most polls for the Republican presidential nomination, naturally finds himself under attack by threatened lefties. GQ published an anti-Carson article with the headline “F–k Ben Carson,” except it spelled out the f-word. Comic actor Seth Rogen tweeted “F–k you” to Carson. And a ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The night we brought home our baby boy from the adoption agency a few months ago, I made the sudden transition from being a woman who has never had a baby to being the mother of a toddler. No nine-month pregnancy followed by a few months of having a ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The more you know about the past, the better prepared you are for the future. —Theodore Roosevelt History is important. If you don’t know history it is as if you were born yesterday. And if you were born yesterday, anybody up there in a position of power can tell ...