(ThyBlackMan.com) Although I am definitely one sounding an alarm about the evils of many music industry practices, I do get weary sometimes of hearing some musicians whining. I get weary sometimes because I know that with a few questions, I will discover that the musicians in question are whining to ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) One thing that always annoyed me when I was in high school was how much I used to get lectured about the importance of speaking properly, dressing properly and having a resume prepared to just to get a job. Now I don’t have an issue with someone giving me ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I recently traveled to New York for a panel on black male fatherhood, hosted by former NBA player Etan Thomas. The panel consisted of other great athletes, including former NY Knick Allan Houston, Billy Hunter (Executive Director of the NBA Player’s Association), Chris Broussard from ESPN and several others. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) With the official black unemployment rate at 14.3%, unofficially it could be as high as 18%; it is informative to look at what ostensibly could be happening in terms of conversations in some households of the black community. Here are some statements which maybe bouncing off the walls within ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “When John Singleton did Boyz-N-the Hood everybody went out to see it. But when John Singleton did Rosewood nobody went to go see it. We vote with our wallets, our pocket books and our time in front of the idiot box”-Spike Lee. I find it funny how Black folks ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Do not dismiss this solution to create jobs without reading it! We need this approach or something similar. We are not in a typical downturn. Business balance sheets for the most part are in good shape. Additional tax breaks are not needed. It the lack of product demand which ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Why is it that Black people love to brag about being in debt? Why do we always try to upstage each other when we speak of the price of our purchases even though we find that a much better price was available elsewhere? Now of COURSE I know that ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) When you make millions giving financial advice to other people, the last thing anyone expects is for you to go bankrupt. Robert Kiyosaki, author of the best-selling book, “Rich Dad, Poor Dad,” has filed for bankruptcy. Robert Kiyosaki made the move after being wiped out by a $24 million ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) As the nation continues to grapple with a weak housing market, policymakers are seeking safeguards to ensure that American families will never again face such massive foreclosures and billion-dollar losses of wealth. Some have suggested that the best guarantee against future housing crises would be to require down payment ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) One of the main themes in the political conventions was centered on how hard it was for the speakers’ families, their parents and grandparents, and how they struggled to make it. Virtually every top speaker reflected on the hard times they went through and how their relatives struggled to ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) On Sunday,September 9th, having been invited by a representative of the New Nation of Islam in Detroit,I interviewed with “the Son of Man” at A Community Meeting With Detroit via the telephone. The representative who contacted me indicated an article written by me for ThyBlackman.com titled; “Thank God For White ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Right now, too many of our youth are in crisis as every 29 seconds a youth drops out of high school. Each and every day 700 youth drop out. That means 1.2 million youth are leaving the education system every year. The disturbing reality is that most of the ...