(ThyBlackMan.com) I am a real American/fight for the rights of every man… – Pro Wrestler Hulk Hogan, Theme Song My president is a “real American,” just as the opening song of his remarks at the White Correspondent dinner suggest. His long form birth certificate confirms this fact of course. He ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Dominique Smith, Khory Johnson, Sheon Wellons, and Christal and Shanae Christopher will never be mistaken for the “Fab Five” basketball stars that brought national fanfare to the University of Michigan campus 20 years ago. However, for one Saturday afternoon in May on Detroit’s west side, this lesser known quintet, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) If a man is offered a piece of stale bread for dinner, he’s probably not going to want to eat it. If you were to then say, well, “stale bread is better than horse manure,” this won’t make the stale bread taste any better. When given the choice between ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I am pretty brutal when it comes to giving bad businesses second chances. Every dollar that I spend at a store is like a vote. I am saying with my purchase “I love your company, and I trust your business or service enough to know that I will get ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Black folks just seem to keep coming up with ways to divide themselves. We keep falling for distractions and side issues, which keep us from focusing on the big picture. The big picture my friends, is us, Black People, not just those you know but those you don’t as ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) A big stumbling block for fathers today is discipline. Some choose to avoid it altogether, while others struggle with what is appropriate. What do you do from day to day, moment to moment? One of the things I’ve noticed over the last twenty years is that fathers’ confidence in ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) When you take out a car loan, you are agreeing to make all monthly payments on time through the terms listed on your contract. If you end up struggling to make your monthly payment and miss several payments, you could end up having your vehicle repossessed. Not only will you ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Let me say this up front: Barack Obama has not, like the 43 guys before him, been a perfect president. I certainly find him to be a considerable upgrade from his predecessor, but I wouldn’t go so far as to say he has revolutionized the position of the President. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I was trying to ignore this because, quite frankly, it’s stupid. But my colleague Deron Snyder at the online publication The Root convinced me otherwise. By “this,” I am talking about the comments by Philadelphia boxer Bernard Hopkins about pro football quarterback Donovan McNabb, who played in Philadelphia for ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Whatever you plan to do today (May 16), make sure you are home in front of the television or have set your recorder to tape Freedom Riders, the excellent PBS documentary by filmmaker Stanley Nelson. And make sure children, related or unrelated, watch the documentary with you. For nearly two ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In this era where marriage as it was once established in biblical and cultural terms is constantly being challenged, black women have emerged as the underdog in the hopes and dreams of ever getting married. Though divorce statistics are extremely high and marriage is plummeting in general, the challenge ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “It is incorrect to classify the revolt of the Negro as simply a racial conflict of black against white, or as a purely American problem. Rather, we are today seeing a global rebellion of the oppressed against the oppressor, the exploited against the exploiter.” — El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, 1964 ...