(ThyBlackMan.com) It had become a nuisance. Seemingly each and every day I would receive emails asking… no, begging, me to publicly skewer Geraldo Rivera over numerous wildly inflammatory remarks made in recent months. Each time I would decline the opportunity. As a general rule, I recommend not chasing after random ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The people have spoken, and the Carters have answered. Shortly after the stinging public criticism of her husband’s diss verse against Harry Belafonte, there’s been an uptick in the activism category on the busy schedules of Beyonce and Jay-Z. This week, as the world expressed its rage about the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In the past there were so many hangings, beatings, shootings and bombings. They went without justice being applied. During the past few decades, we have shown national outrage from Emmitt Till, Mississippi civil rights workers shootings, Rodney King, etc., and now we have the heartbreaking death of little Trayvon ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) As I spent Sunday listening to everyone pontificate their theories about how White racism led to George Zimmerman’s acquittal, it struck me how yesterday’s and today’s protests are – a dollar short and a day late. Saturday night after the verdict was read, hundreds of Black people gathered in ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Sincere well-intentioned Americans are asking, “What must we do to heal the racial divide following the Zimmerman trial?” What my naïve fellow Americans do not comprehend is that the Democratic party and the mainstream media are heavily invested in keeping racial tension alive. During Barack Obama’s presidency, race exploitation ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “A cheerful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.” – Proverbs 17:22 If you were ever a Seinfeld fan, perhaps you remember the episode in which Jerry dates a woman and his friends point out to him that she never laughs. Instead, when Jerry ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) President Barack Obama movingly spoke of the “pain” most African-Americans felt at the acquittal of George Zimmerman. But Obama didn’t speak solely because he felt obliged to make a generic observation about the anger of most blacks toward the verdict, or even out of remembrance of the fight he ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The George Zimmerman verdict was a return to Jim Crow justice. The ONLY solid evidence in this case was that George Zimmerman stalked, approached, and killed an innocent Black child. That was proven. Everything else was simply the word of a murderer trying to justify his crime. . We ...