(ThyBlackMan.com) As an African-American evangelical woman, Beyonce’s performance last night was pretty bittersweet for me. Quite simply it was both exhilarating and excruciating. Exhilarating because as a supremely talented black woman on a world stage surrounded by a plethora of talented black women, Beyonce and Co. were making history. (Even ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) If you’re black and heartily supported President Barack Obama’s bid for re-election, I have some news for you. Barack Obama is NOT your president and you are not meant to get much of anything for your vote. He’s not the president of black America, so the fact that you ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The controversy over the images in “Django Unchained,” a white man’s film continues to brew in America. Whether you love or hate the film, the most important message was that Blacks have done a poor job of controlling their own image. We can take control of our own image ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “They say money make a n*gga act n*gger-ish” Problem- A$AP Rocky Yes, Conservative talk show host, Sean O’Reilly hated Hip Hop with a passion. Yet, there he was, sitting in front of his flat screen watching the Grammys, anxiously, waiting for the rap song of the year to be ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Many of us have heard the saying, “If you’re white you’re all right; if you’re yellow you’re fine and mellow; if you’re brown, stick around; but if you’re black get the h— on back.” Well, as Dr. Claud Anderson has said for years, “If Black folks didn’t get anything ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Reality is what we see, hear, taste and touch. And Science, the formal observation, recording and interpretation of what we experience, is all that we can know. Seems obvious, doesn’t it? Yes, but things were not always so. Today, though, after hundreds of years of living under the dogma called Reason, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Have you noticed the television commercials that offer loans of various kinds or other enticements such as auto leases and insurance policies for the elderly? These commercials are laden with information that appears on the screen for a few seconds and is too small to read. On the radio ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Some say chivalry died long ago while others stay it still exists. There is a third group, particularly within the African-American community, that has another opinion causing an interesting discourse. The idea of chivalry being dead is not disputed but the reason behind its death is. Are black women ...