(ThyBlackMan.com) Somehow, of course, a conversation on a Black blog I visited once in a post about Black women in general and their beauty turned into a conversation about Black women’s body and what types the male commenters like the best, which is totally sexist. The conversation I joined in ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) After enjoying football, time with family and friends and a belly full of turkey with all the fixings. Many folks find themselves sitting at the dining room table laying out their game plan for Black Friday. You would think they were setting up for an FBI sting. Sales papers ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) There is an obvious explanation for the ejection and probable suspension of Ndamukong Suh during the much anticipated Lions –Packers Turkey Day game. While there is more vacant land in Detroit than there is land in San Francisco, that is mostly outside Ford Field. But on the football field ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) You and I are politically well informed. But there are many Americans like my family who do not follow politics as closely as we do. Their political views are shaped by liberal media bias hit pieces, spin and sound bites. 99.9 % of my family are democrats because Marcus ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In the days of broadswords and chain mail, anger was a simple concept. In the BlackBerry and e-mail age, rage is often disguised. “Identifying your own anger style could be the key to eliminating it,” says Ron Potter-Efron, M.S.W., author of Letting Go of Anger. Men with chronic anger ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) This week, I challenge you to consider the lessons your life is offering you right now. I say, “offering” because God offers lessons, but it is up to us to learn from them. If we don’t learn, the same lessons are offered again and again. Through both frustrations and ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) A coalition of more than 100 colleges and universities are fighting to persuade Congress and the special supercommittee not to cut $85 million or more in federal funding. The coalition consists of the National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education (NAFEO), the Thurgood Marshall College Fund (TMCF), and ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Dear Black Man, I have become a woman that you no longer recognize. I have allowed our enemy to impregnate me with his ideas and thoughts. I have allowed an illusion of independence to keep us separated. I have fooled myself into believing that my degrees places me degrees ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Save our souls and our nation by legalizing your way to deficit reduction, would be my recommendation to the Super Committee members attempting to curb our national debt and bolster the economy. Ending the war on drugs—pragmatic, sensibly humane and post racial—would alone save our nation billions of dollars. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The dudes from the ATL grew up eating fish and grits. Fish and chips were a common childhood fare for the lads from Liverpool. Both groups became famous for songs with similarly affirmative refrains: The “Yeah, yeah, yeah” of the Liverpudlians is translated to “O-yea-yer” in ATLien speak. I ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I want to know why folks are trying to starve the babies. Okay that may be a little over the top, but seriously what were they thinking? Let me just start by saying that when growing up and attending school in the 70’s and the 80’s one thing was ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) It is appalling and worrisome to see what is occurring in our country. Democrats and Republicans are moving to polar opposites in regard to opinions on job creation, budget reduction and taxes. Abandonment of the center, where any job creation plan will be resolved, dooms the unemployed to another ...