(ThyBlackMan.com) Have you noticed? A new season is just around the corner. Every year, I get giddy when signs of spring whisper promises of winter’s demise. Sure, it might get cold again. But it won’t last! Just hang on a little while longer, and spring will arrive. When that happens, ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) There’s a comforting-to-white-people fiction about racism and racial inequality in the United States today: They’re caused by a small, recalcitrant group who cling to their egregiously inaccurate beliefs in the moral, intellectual and economic superiority of white people. The reality: racism and racial inequality aren’t just supported by old ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) The most common answer, “He was not blond and blue-eyed like they show him in movies and paintings. He was darker than that, like the people who live in North Africa today.” However, the average American today looks nothing like the average American 500 years ago when Columbus arrived. ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) On several occasions I have listened carefully as a couple of Black Republican colleagues cite the grievous shortcomings and sins of the Democratic Party. More often than not I found myself in agreement with much of their analysis. After their critique is finished I ask the Black Republicans what ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) How many African-Americans know that the president of the United States (POTUS) recently met with their leaders? How many among the African-American population know what the meeting agenda entailed, who was there, and what was accomplished at, or subsequent to it, regarding our plight and problems? Late Black History ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) With the recent controversial police procedure called “Stop & Frisk” is now on trial in the Supreme Court for violating civil rights. Now despite this there are some that make the argument that it is a necessary tool in order to stop or prevent crime. Some believe that by ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) My childhood friends and I were very close. We spent practically every waking moment together—playing sports, video games and just hanging out. Looking back on life from an adult point of view, I must say, “we were spoiled “BROKE” kids.” None of us worked or even thought about doing ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Thus far I have heard so many variations for and against the institution of same sex marriage, and have logically come to the foregoing realization that America has greatly changed.  Be it for the good or the bad that is where many of us will part company.  As logical ...