(ThyBlackMan.com) James Carville, who is renowned for being former President Clinton’s political strategist and now a lobbyist and political analyst has been quoted in several news publications as saying, “Mr. Obama needs to fire somebody or assemble a new team of advisors.” Carville made these statements as the President got ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In part one of this series I discussed how there are many similarities between rural towns and our African American concentrated inner-cities. I discussed how certain “grow your own” business strategies have led to stabilization and even growth for some of these towns that have experienced decades of decline. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) African American business ownership is the fundamental way to create economic, political, and social power and authority in our cities. Without ownership, and wealth we will always be a day late and a dollar short. We will keep wondering why we have no power, our prayer walks don’t work, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In a time where job availability is at all-time record lows and people are scrambling to look for work or trying really hard to keep theirs, I felt guiltier than ever for wanting to get out of mine. Day after day, I’d trudge to and from my job, praying that ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The United States Justice Department is preparing to launch an investigation against Wells Fargo, a company that serves as the largest home mortgage lender in the country. The company is being accused of taking advantage of minority consumers by selling them loans that were overpriced and more likely to ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Anyone who knows me, knows I’m anti-“success,” anti-“industry” and anti-anybody and everybody who’s in the business of selling dreams and…LIES! I get it…I get though…everyone in the world wants to achieve some level of success. No one wants to live broke and destitute. But what really bothers me is ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Because I’ve been fired several times, I personally advocate this as a means of moving a person into their greatness. Don’t look at me sideways. I say this because, people get comfortable and complacent. Generally, it’s not until a person gets the boot, and they’re snatched from their comfort ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) One of the last holdouts in the onslaught of major corporations seeking to take over the black-owned media space was the Johnson Publishing Company, which runs Ebony and Jet Magazines. As Essence Magazine, BET and other outlets found themselves running into the arms of a financial white knight, the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The 21st century global economy will have winners and losers. Will African-Americans be among the winners in this new economy? Have African-Americans accomplished something economically during the first decade of this new century to claim a place on the global scene? After a thorough analysis of our economic infrastructure, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) BLACK CONSUMERS SPEND $2.2 BILLION WITH TOYOTA, YET TOYOTA REFUSES TO THANK BLACK CONSUMERS FOR THEIR SUPPORT… Toyota Motor Sales USA executives have angered National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) Chairman Danny Bakewell Sr. and America’s preeminent Black newspaper publishers after the troubled carmaker backed out of a multi-million dollar ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) It isn’t clear what is worse: the housing crisis that keeps deepening or the reports of pervasive banking fraud that keep getting exposed. With the banks facing billions in potential damages, perhaps some measure of justice can be done to the homeowners who have been the victims of the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) It is not about race. It is about a philosophy and agenda that is rather foreign to his predecessors. The thought resembles that of the late Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm who addressed a group of Black manufacturers with this: “I don’t give a damn about businesses. All I am concerned with ...