(ThyBlackMan.com) I often wonder if intellect is scorned at large by the black community. Have we adopted it as xenophobic, rhetoric that is only productive to academic debates or the common use of vocabulary that stretches past the norm into opportunities to search the dictionary for clarity? This has become ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) One key to getting past the race issue in America is to end the war on drugs. John McWhorter says it’s the most important thing we could do. Cato’s Letter features a lecture by McWhorter in which he calls for an end to the war on drugs. (It’s really ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Leading black conservatives lay blame for black America’s rampant poverty and other ills squarely at the feet of the socialist orientation of black leaders such as Al Sharpton. They say the black intelligentsia’s rhetoric has created a defeatist and demoralizing climate that has robbed millions of black Americans of ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) I watch the documentary, Waiting for Superman earlier this week and was quite disturbed after watching the film. The documentary depicted the plight of the educational system in America. The title is taken from a comment made by Geoffrey Canada where he shares about his life growing up in ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) I write from a point in my life where sense has jumped out of the window. Nothing makes sense and rationale is an anomaly. As I ponder through my thoughts I wrestle with the thought of racism. Is it possible to live a life without some sort of personal ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Let me first start off by saying that I am in no way casting dispersion upon gays. I may not agree with their stance but I am not taking free aim at their choices. I may not agree that people are born gay but that is a stance that ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) After reading an article by Richard Vedder, Why Do We Have HBCU’s?, I came to the conclusions most people really do not see the major impact of some of these great institution of higher learning. HBCU’s produce more black PhD students than other institutions reported by the National Science ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) As I watching television last night, the station continually showed these pictures of the person they said was Jesus. The thing that got me was that every picture they showed was a picture of a blond haired, blue eyed Jesus. This really began to play with my psyche a ...