(ThyBlackMan.com) Black people in this country have as much a right as any to be prideful. But it is no secret that when we are proud or confident for whatever reason, other races, namely white people, are quick to label our pride as arrogant or self serving. I’ve noticed that ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Congresswoman Maxine Waters minced no words when she said that members of the Congressional Black Caucus are “frustrated” and impatient that President Obama is not doing enough to tackle the crisis problem of black unemployment. This is hardly the first time that Waters and other members of the Caucus ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I want to borrow a line from a Curtis Mayfield song: “Pardon me brother while you bask in your glory, I hope you don”t mind if I tell the whole story“ The USA is one of the most prolific exporting Industrial nation’s in the history of the modern world. To ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Why Attack a Sleeping Sentry Before Repelling the Invading Hordes? While Tavis Smiley and Cornel West have the right idea in terms of the need to confront power, it’s their motives and the hypocrisy of their agenda that I have a problem with. They’re clearly being self-serving and purposely ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I just finished reading Manning Marable’s biography of Malcolm X. Let’s look at the controversial claims it made, the key ideas it contained, and some of the fascinating coincidences it brought to light. Malcolm X, like Martin Luther King, was assassinated at age 39 on the eve of ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Since 2006, rapper William L. Roberts better known to the world as Rick Ross (naming himself after former notorious drug dealer “free way” Rick Ross), has been a prominent force in hip hop since dropping the classic street single Hustlin. He quickly identified himself as a cocaine dealer on ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) How long will the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) continue to behave like a person who has been diagnosed with erectile dysfunction (ED) and has been prescribed Viagra by his doctor? The male psyche is extremely fragile and when the doctor prescribes Viagra to him, initially it is a huge ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “At the University of Natal in Durban, I was told the church to which most of the white population belongs teaches apartheid as a moral necessity. A questioner declared that few churches allow black Africans to pray with the white because the Bible says that is the way it ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) 1And Moses answered, But behold, they will not believe me or listen to and obey my voice; for they will say, The Lord has not appeared to you. – Exodus 4:1 I am under-qualified… for lots of stuff. The job I currently hold? Under-qualified. So it never ceases to ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Like the rest of the country, I couldn’t help but notice the occurrence of black teen ‘”flash mobs” around the country. For those who haven’t been made hip to the game, flash mobs are random groups of people who get together and do “stuff.” The acts committed by flash ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Why these two (and rappers like them) can get away with it and others can’t. “She said, ‘Why in the club you don’t make it precipitate? You know, make it rain, when you could make it thunderstorm…’ I’m like ‘Why? The world needs sun. The hood needs funds. There’s ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Texas governor and GOP presidential candidate Rick Perry, in an interview with a local African-American newspaper last October, boasted about his appointments and nominations of African-Americans to top spots on major state commissions, state boards, college and university boards, and to the courts. His signature appointment was Wallace Jefferson ...