(ThyBlackMan.com) Or is America merely experiencing the 21st Century’s first successful Republican Party counter-revolution against an elected Democratic Party President? In either case, how did we get here? The noted columnist Frank Rich, writing in the July 11, 2011 of New York Magazine, in an article captioned “Obama’s Original Sin,” ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) So it’s time for you to sit down and have a face-to-face chat with your teenage son. Actually, there might be a better option. The public service announcements on television make it sound like the best approach is to just start a conversation about drugs or alcohol at the ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Accepting use, remaining indifferent to its use, or using the n-word is the same as sanctioning all that transpired against the black ancestry. Some may believe that the word and its focus is less tailored or relevant to today’s Black African Americans. They believe, instead, that its relevance is ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Every day an entire wealth of information is shared and our young people grasp very little of it… They say if you want to hide some thing from a Black man, put it in a book. I say to hide something from most Black people, just write it anywhere ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) I’ve never met Lenny McAllister, a former host on WVON 1690 in Chicago.  The only thing I know is that Lenny is a Republican (which I am not), and that WVON was once my favorite radio station in the entire country.  The station, in my mind, has always represented ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) GOP Representative Dough Lamborn from Colorado decided to stir the racial fire in the recent debate over the debt crisis.  In his remarks about President Obama, Rep. Lamborn said that being associated with President Obama is “like touching a tar baby.” Lamborn’s remarks (which are in the audio below) ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) I would imagine most of us are familiar with the idea that we are largely products of our environment.  For good or bad, we are influenced by our experiences and mature to either continue in or deviate from what we have learned thus far.  That’s a powerful realization. We ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) In a time where job availability is at all-time record lows and people are scrambling to look for work or trying really hard to keep theirs, I felt guiltier than ever for wanting to get out of mine.  Day after day, I’d trudge to and from my job, praying that ...