(ThyBlackMan.com) I’ve been a Black man for quite a while now. It’s been a fun ride, with its ups and downs, but I have to say that in this journey, where half the world is working to secure your extinction, you realize that your ability to think and make critical ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “Whites only”…. “Colored”…. “No colored allowed”…. These words remind us a very ugly time in American history. A time of separate and unequal State sponsored fascism and racism. We all know about the history of Jim Crow, its demonic legacies; and the horrible results of its policies. For Black-Americans; ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Joe Williams a reporter for Politico.com, has been suspended for making comments about presidential candidate Mitt Romney that the company deems to be racially-offensive. During an appearance on the show hosted by Martin Bashir, Williams said this: It’s very interesting that he does so many appearances on Fox & ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) By mid summer NBA fans from all over the world will have to find a new bad guy to jeer because Lebron James, like it or not, will be a league champion. The Miami Heat are up three games to one over the Oklahoma City Thunder and as every ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The Los Angeles Dodgers played their first game in Chevez Ravine on April 18, 1958, nineteen years before I was born in Methodist Hospital in Park Slope, Brooklyn. That being said I have never actually had a “hometown team” to follow. Growing up in New York City I had ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Often times no one can tell when a man is in pain or has a struggle that he cannot handle because men have learned how to mask pain and struggle since childhood. We were taught that crying was essentially a sign of total weakness. As a result, we develop ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “…know you not that the friendship of this world is the enemy of God? Whosoever therefore will be a friend of this world, becometh an enemy of God.” James 4:4 – Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition Famed author and writer Alex Haley, who wrote the landmark novel, “Roots,” said it ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) One of things I have noticed about us as women is that we play the victim card like it’s the Big Joker in spade game. Some situations are we really the victim? Yes….but in ALL situations? Not so much. The following statement was made during a dialog on my ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) As a true man of substance, you have to treat your own life like it’s a business. Treat it like a fortune 500 company. As CEO of your life, you determine which direction to go into. You set the agenda. You determine what your main life goals are, and ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Often we hear that most small businesses fail because of a lack of capital. We hear the tails of woe, and some are quite true, of entrepreneurs who did not make it because they simply did not have enough money to fund their business. They failed because they could ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) On June 19, 1865, the last of the enslaved people of African descent got the word that President Lincoln had freed the slaves and the Civil War had ended. On this day in 1865, Union General Gordon Granger rode intoGalveston,Tex., and informed the local population that the Civil War ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) It’s June 19th. Or Juneteenth. The day celebrated as the official end to slavery in the African American community. But more than 150 years after the Civil War and the end of slavery the antebellum mentality persists. We are not slaves but what made us subjects still exists. The ...