(ThyBlackMan.com) Just when we thought things were getting better around the world, and at home, some of the craziest stuff raised its ugly head not to resolve problems, but to create more. We were heavily impacted by the Israeli-Hamas tragedy. Our hearts were broken for friends caught up in a ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) When I was in high school, my favorite teacher was Barry McNealy. A graduate of the same high school, he taught history and worked as a tour guide at the Birmingham Civil Rights Museum. One of the many things that he taught me that stuck was… There’s Nothing New ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley spoke truth for many whites about racism. Not that America has not now or in the past been a deeply racist country. You’d have to be on drugs or alcohol to make such an astoundingly asinine statement. She just spoke the truth about how ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In a stunning reversal, Dr. Claudine Gay abruptly abdicated the presidency at Harvard. Having done so, the first Black president of America’s most prestigious university has spared it from some ignominious fate. There is no telling how much irreparable harm might have been visited upon the Crimson had Dr. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The Arab-Israeli conflict has a long, complicated history with strong opinions on both sides of a deeply divided issue. Since the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israeli civilians, preliminary data from the Anti-Defamation League recorded incidents of harassment, vandalism, and assault have increased by 388% over the same period ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In the early 1950s, E. Colin Cherry, with his work on audition and auditory stimuli operationalized the term “selective attention.” It was meant to describe processes humans employed while engaging in situations that required what he called ‘statistical filtering.’ Specifically how we as humans attend to certain stimuli for ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Above all, gift-giving is the sharing of good, and practiced rightly, it becomes not only a ritual of celebration, but also a lesson and a model and mirror of how we should live our lives. For it is not only the giving of things, but also a sharing of ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I was trying to rationalize the concept of intersectionality this past Thanksgiving holiday. The way I see it, intersectionality is a synthesis of Marxist ideology and the concept of oppression insofar as it exists in the modern sense. More specifically, the moral equivocation of collective identity in politics and ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) As a career educator, I can still remember vividly how I and others in my profession felt during the 1999, Columbine High School shooting massacre. The perpetrators, twelfth-grade students Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, murdered twelve students and one teacher. At the time, it was the deadliest school shooting ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I was having a conversation with a few parents, and the topic of marijuana and their minors came up. Though most parents took the position that pre-teens and teenagers should not be smoking, there were a few that raised the idea that in moderation it might not be a ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Many are rejoicing that Republicans finally got around to electing a speaker, thus breaking the logjam that began when Trump acolyte Matt Goetz (R-FL) introduced legislation to eliminate Kevin McCarthy (R-CA). In selecting Louisiana’s Mike Johnson, Republicans chose a self-avowed “evangelical Southern Christian” (read racist segregationist) who is anti-choice, anti-gay ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) History is our window into the past. It tells us where we’ve been, and if we study it the voices of those that have come before us can help us navigate the challenges of the day. Though we are grateful for books that help us understand where we are, ...