(ThyBlackMan.com) While playing with my daughter in the park recently, I overheard a parent reprimanding their child for lying. While many will applaud this action as great parenting, in the depths of my mind questions began emerge on why we teach our children characteristics we as a society do not ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) First of all, I have never hit my wife, my mother nor any of my sisters. I shouldn’t and I wouldn’t. This article is not about making excuses for anybody hitting anybody. This article is about fairness, being treated with respect and accepting no less. Society says a man ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Black folks don’t value education. Black kids are always in trouble. Black people don’t value family. All black men think they’re gangsters and rappers. Black women live off of welfare. All the good black men are gay or in prison. These are just a few stereotypes about black people ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The last fifty years has seen a veritable explosion of single-dads in American society. According to the Pew Research Center, the number of households headed by a father has increased dramatically – from 300,000 in 1960 to 2.5 million in 2011. Some of these men are sharing custody but ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “It’s not what you know. It’s who you know” – Society You can go all Boosie Bad Azz on me and tell me you are independent. You can tell me you are team ‘solo dolo’. You can even pump a fist in the air and sing the anthem “Me, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In the 1800’s African Americans were in the congress of the United States. African Americans even owned slaves and/or indentured servants (no I am not bragging about that). By the 1920s we had Black Wallstreet, the most successful business community circulation of the dollar that has ever existed in ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The esteem and respect once given to the grandparents and elders within the African American community has vanished. “Grandpa” is usually absent, due to African American males having the shortest life expectancy in America, shortened by heart disease, cancer, diabetes, and homicide. The roles of “Big Momma” as philosopher, psychologist, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Every day it seems we hear a litany of stories over the news media about single-dads mired in conflict with the mother of their children. All too often these conflicts end up in assaults and arrests. Such negative outcomes strain the father-child relationship beyond repair and impair our ability ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) It’s just that simple. Over the past few days I have gotten into heated arguments with men who have presented and positioned themselves as Pro-Black, yet they find themselves incapable of standing against a Black man who has repeatedly violated Black women. There is something inherently wrong with your ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The march is over. The celebration has ended. The ultimatums have been issued and the challenges have been made. And now that everybody has left Washington and gone home, now what? Do we build coalitions, business partnerships and community relationships that oversee our own problems – and our own ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) A couple gets into a heated discussion that escalates into a shouting match. Tempers flare and the cursing begins as neither party seems to back down. In the heat of the arguing the woman involved punches the man involved in the face. She may not realize it but she ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) A rock-star is a person who has achieved celebrity status and fanatical admiration in the eyes of his or her followers. There are rock-star musicians, rock-star athletes and rock-star entertainers. In this piece I would like to transfer this ‘rock-star’ phenomenon to the concept of fatherhood, in particular single-dads. ...