(ThyBlackMan.com) I was shopping for groceries on a Thursday evening when it happened. A little Black elf who should have been smiling and cute was tearing his way through the canned goods aisle, kicking some cans and trying to juggle a few. He was cursing at an older girl, who ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) What would life in the inner city be if the federal government paid residents ( called hostages from this sentence forward) to defend themselves? It’s a good thought experiment given millions spent with little or no safety to show for it. Self-government seems to pass us by. By ” us ” I mean fellow would-be ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Many of us read with interest the blow up between NBA superstar Dwyane Wade and commissioner David Stern. In a heated discussion taking place during the pending NBA lockout, Wade told Stern that he “isn’t his child,” and then stormed out of the meeting. I read about the interaction with curiosity, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Most community policing isn’t done by the police. Sounds like an eye brow raiser so let’s break it down. Good parenting is community policing. Mentoring is community policing. Promoting self-love via activism is community policing. Notice how non-governmental community policers easily outnumber government peers? This is my area ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In the last Republican presidential debate Texas Governor Rick Perry was taken to task by his fellow candidates for allowing children born of undocumented parents to receive in-state college tuition rates, and providing social welfare benefits to all regardless of citizenship status. His response? “(I)f you say that we ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) There’s nothing shy about Floyd “Money” Mayweather Jr., one of boxing’s greatest champions. He doesn’t care if you like him. Just help make him get richer. The undefeated pugilist made about $40 million for beating Victor Ortiz recently. But Mayweather’s real talent is controlling his financial affairs. The New ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In a climate of economic uncertainty defined by widespread joblessness and declining net worth among median income households, it’s not difficult to understand why average Americans would want to wage what Republicans termed “class warfare” in order to secure a fair tax rate. If I still worked as a ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I am not angry at all about the execution of Troy Davis and can’t understand for the life of me why so many of us are when in every hearing on every level of the justice system, the conviction was upheld. Is it because it was another black man? Well, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) African Americans are the least likely to acknowledge they are depressed. Two important factors account for depression in the black community including economic and cultural impoverishment. The Full Circle Life Enrichment Center, a not-for profit organization, based in New York, educates African American families about mental health disease and treatment ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) My brothers: I’ve wanted to write this open letter to all of you for a long time. That is because I am not only a huge admirer of what you do as sportsmen but also because I care, and I am deeply concerned about the state of Black male ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) America is falling apart and is reverting to what it always was: two nations inside of one. A frightening prospective but not unexpected given the lack of leadership in Washington; both party’s included as well as each branch of government. Maybe unbeknownst to the President also, given that he ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Not too long ago the media was in frenzy over the so-called break up of Will and Jada Smith. News spread like wild-fire that the couple were headed to divorce court, when Will supposedly discovered Jada and Marc Anthony (Jada’s costar and love interest on the now cancelled Hawthorne) ...