(ThyBlackMan.com) President Barack Obama’s ascendance to the oval office was worth a fraction of the importance which has been claimed, the president would do something to stop the human catastrophe of mass incarceration and the destruction it has wrought on black Americans. Instead he has officially given it his blessing. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The fact blacks praised Jay Z for his comments on the Zimmerman verdict and bashed CNN’s Don Lemon for pointing out the problems blacks bring on themselves is exactly what’s wrong with “Black America.” I’ve always rejected the news media and self-appointed black leaders’ persistent efforts in relegating blacks ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) This month Homeland star David Harewood has criticised the lack of opportunities for young black actors in the UK and advised them to head Stateside to find stardom. He is not the only one: more and more black UK actors have begun to realise that they might never find ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Hold the presses! Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson, those bad “Black militant” leaders who all these years have exercised a Svengali-like influence over the masses have lost their clout. So says Black conservative pundit John McWhorter in the July 17 The New Republic magazine. Writing at his oiliest, McWhorter begins his ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) It has been a long and rocky ride down the economic slope for the Motor City, a city I know well. Procter & Gamble hired me out of the University of Wisconsin after I graduated in 1970. Knowing I was about to be drafted, they placed me in Toledo, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Over the past few weeks, the D.C. City Council has been in the news quite a bit, though but for all the wrong reasons. They recently passed a law that would prevent thousands, yes you heard me right, thousands of jobs from being created within their city. Now mind ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) There are genuine and sincere men and women of integrity who believe Mr. Obama’s policies have not been affected in lifting blacks out of their dismal economic condition brought on by the 2008 downturn. The facts are on the side of critics in that blacks have not fared well ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) African American men have great untapped potential, given by God our creator. There is a gold mine of gifts, genius, talents, abilities and resources among black men. These resources have gone untapped for two reasons: External forces such as racism, discrimination, poor role models or no role models including ...