(ThyBlackMan.com) The field of Republican candidates seeking their party’s presidential nomination, and the right to take on President Obama in November 2012, is already taking a turn for the bizarre. As each hopeful tries to move further to the right than the other, and claim to be the legitimate standard-bearer of ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The history of African Americans is one of great accomplishments amidst the legacy of slavery and Jim Crow. That legacy follows black people, and particularly black men, to this day. And it is enough to make you red-hot burning mad. Although some are ready to usher in a new ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) President Obama made the right decision not to release the photos of the body of bin Laden. The reasons he gave initially were that releasing the photos would endanger US security, inflame Muslim hardliners, and turn the bin Laden killing into an exercise in prurient, gory, bloodlust voyeurism still ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Although I am a political junkie going way back, I stopped watching talking head shows year ago. I find them to be tedious personality pageants that are short on issues, long on ego. But a recent tete-a-tete between Al Sharpton and Cornel West on MSNBC’s “The Ed Show” made ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) President Obama had a meeting today with members of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) in the State Dining Room of the White House. The focus of the meeting, according to White House officials, was to discuss job creation and economic growth. During the meeting, President Obama acknowledged the concern ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) ‘For man knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in a snare; so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them.’ – Ecclesiastes 9:12 Earlier this week, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Too many Blacks leaving school with no degree, substandard education, study shows… In the race to have the best team, win the most games and make the most money, college sports programs have exploited student-athletes for university gains, according to some of the nation’s leading experts on race and ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) President Obama appears to be riding high. Osama Bin Laden, the world’s most-wanted man, has been killed under his leadership. He pulled off an “in your face” coo by producing his long-form birth certificate to silence billionaire Donald Trump. And although the economy is still struggling, it shows some ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) When I’m out in public sometimes I often look around at everyone and wonder which of these people are Christans and which of them are not. It’s sometimes very hard to tell the difference. I mean everyone is wearing the same type of clothing, having the same types of ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “One for the brothers who aren’t here.” Saying these words is always bittersweet, especially when applied to young men who have not reached their 35th birthday, but sometimes life is that way. We cannot control when a life will be taken from us, but we can control how we ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) When Malcolm X was assassinated on a sunny winter’s day in 1965, many thought black radicalism would die with him. “Malcolm is our only hope. You can depend on him to tell it like it is and to give Whitey hell,” one man told the New York Post. But ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Last night Michelle Obama hosted an “Evening of Poetry” at the White House. She invited an eclectic group of poets to recite their poetry. But, Fox News and right wing radio has singled out one performer—the Grammy award winning rapper Common—to be on the receiving end of their ire. ...