(ThyBlackMan.com) There are two things that I feel embody the American free spirit. The first is based on its founding principles and the second is on common statements we all hear regularly. I carry around a pocket copy of the Constitution and Bill of Rights. In addition to these documents ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The timely public release by the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department of the body cam footage of the slaying of Niani Finlayson was widely held as a great step toward transparency in dubious police shootings. Finlayson was a young African American mother in Lancaster, California who called for police ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I was recently in a conversation about the upcoming Christmas holiday. It was lighthearted, and familiar. You know, trying to get gifts, holiday décor, the holiday meal, and if there are any plans on the day. Holiday season can be very difficult for so many people for various reasons, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Looking backward over 2023 and looking forward to 2024 recalls ancient wisdom. Ecclesiastes: “What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.” Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr employed different phraseology: “The more things change, the more they stay the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The Statue of Liberty stands proudly in Upper New York Bay as a symbol of freedom and a welcoming beacon to the “huddled masses” and “those yearning to be free.” Originally conceived as an emblem of the friendship between the people of France and the United States, it is a ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The archangel Gabriel revealed to Daniel when the first two advents of the Messiah would occur. The first advent was sixty-nine sevens (483 years) after the third wave of Hebrews left Babylon in the year 457 BC. The Messiah appeared 483 years later on Saturday March 29, AD 27. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Many of us go through the useless ritual of making New Year’s resolutions and proclaiming “out with the old.” Maybe that works for your eating habits or exercise routine, but 2023 news will be with us into 2024. From my perspective, these are the things we’ll be paying attention to ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) It is six years into Donald J. Trump’s second tenure as president. During his first tenure he served four years and with his current six years in office he is just three years short of matching President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s record of 13 years as president. After a tumultuous ...