(ThyBlackMan.com) I don’t profess to be a professional on any matter… I won’t try to beat you over the head with technical/medical terms. What I can do is give you an honest opinion… MY opinion… Majority of my opinions are a direct reflection of EVERYTHING I have ever been through ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Every commercial on the TV, internet, and radio is talking about how easy it is to refinance your current mortgage and how helpful it will be to have lower payments due to interest rates being so low. Refinancing means more business for financial institutions, insurance carriers (home, title, etc.), ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) To use recent vernacular, I can say that Al Sharpton is not a proper negro. But he is a very smart negro. Tyler Perry is also not a proper negro, just a very rich negro. I personally don’t consider myself to be as smart as Sharpton and I know I’m not as rich as ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I’ve never liked that “Ebony and Ivory” stuff. Many Black people describe each other as “dark-skinned”. As a child, I never really thought about it but when I was confronted with white people who call all people of color who aren’t pale “dark-skinned”, I began to think. Maybe I ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) He is everything they fantasized about; a dark warrior with swagger, unafraid to chastise his own and a product of the Black experience. Unlike Colin Powell, he is no wishy-washy moderate supporter of affirmative action and apologist for fairness. Herman Cain is the GOP’s Black buck and the party ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Who remembers Hasbro’s Battle Beasts?!! They were these little anthropomorphic toy figures that were no more than 3 inches tall. Aside from being armed to the teeth (metaphorically and literally!), the coolest feature of these little creatures was the emblem that each one bore. Each belonged to a “clan” ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Do you have a hard time leaving work at work? Is your to-do list so long that it is never possible to finish everything you set out to do in a day? I have always loved this quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson: “Finish each day and be done with ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Talking Dollars and Making Sense is exactly what Brooke Stephens does in her book of the same name in which she shows us how to make more, save more, invest more and build wealth for ourselves, our children and our children’s children. One-by-one she lists, and then shatters, the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Why is that many Black women would rather say, “That’s how men are” when they should be saying “I don’t like that characteristic in a person, period—be they friend, boyfriend, father, husband, or otherwise”? Many of us still insist that men should run our households, our churches, our jobs, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) She’s standing at the corner, gold chain on her neck, hoop earrings in both ears, and neck swivelling – 360 degree circles at 360 miles per hour. Mmmmhmm – Shaniqua is angry. She wants you to know about it. You WILL know about it. Shaniqua’s angry because – her ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Whether it is politics, the sports arena or general labor disputes, the analogy comparing modern labor disputes with the permanent stain of slavery just keep coming. The latest comparison was made by HBO’s Real Sports anchor Bryant Gumbel who said that NBA commissioner David Stern was some kind of ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) What does the word “minority” mean? Why do we call ourselves “minorities?” And why do Latinos and Asians also do the same? Minority means “less than 50%.” Majority means “more than 50%.” If whites are but 20% of the world’s population, how then can Blacks, Latinos, Asians and Native ...