(ThyBlackMan.com) Dear Black America, This 42nd anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is an opportune moment to reflect on how far we’ve come, and how far we have to go. It calls us to reconsider the words Dr. King gave us at the end of his life, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Wouldn’t it be something if a contrite and chastened Woods became a poster boy for fidelity? Wouldn’t it be something if a contrite and chastened Woods became a poster boy for fidelity? Four months, one week and four days after the National Enquirer reported he was having an affair ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Conservatism is a dead philosophy, at least to these jaundiced eyes. Another zombie is Liberalism but it at least has enough visual diversity to lend it the illusion of broad appeal. Both have become burdens that have outlived their usefulness despite herculean efforts by supporters. Somewhere amid rhetorical grunts and ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Over the last decade the prevalence of HIV infection in the United States has reached new highs and now rivals the numbers we see in sub-saharan Africa. According to Wafaa M. El-Sadr, director of the International Center for Aids Care and Treatment at Columbia University, more than half a million ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Community policing is supposed to be an alternative to the ” Lock up every Negro in sight! ” pathology afflicting American law enforcement. In a modern era where even a sitting ” post racial ” US president can ( correctly ) call arresting a wealthy, liberal, Ivy League-employed Black man in his home ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Tiger’s return to golf this week at the Masters is a uniquely American story… Tiger Woods is America. Rich beyond imagining. Ungovernable. Loved. Hated. Brilliant. Witless. Two-faced. Wanton. Thoughtless. Gifted. Smug. Pious. Addicted. Insatiable. Unfaithful. Courageous. Deluded. Craven. Devoted. Lonely. Weak. Strong. A model. Adrift. The sole remaining superpower ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I never liked music until I heard hip hop. I never really liked hip hop until I heard NWA. Call me a thug, a hoodlum, or a dangerous black man, but as an 18-year old teenager, the chronic coming out of those speakers took my breath away. Ice Cube was ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Even though some of the messengers are black, questionable rhetoric will continue to keep folks away, says this conservative columnist… Even though some of the messengers are black, questionable rhetoric will continue to keep folks away, says this conservative columnist. It took one word for the point to hit ...