(ThyBlackMan.com) Why now’s the time for him to be about it, instead of talking about it. Let me see if I have this straight: talk show host Tavis Smiley blasted Rev. Al Sharpton and other black leaders because they’re not pressing President Obama to promote a black agenda? Yeah, that would ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The undeniable fact is that President Obama has gotten a racial pass from blacks. This tormenting fact ignited brief finger pointing between the Reverend Al Sharpton and talk show host Tavis Smiley. It’s hardly the first time that blacks publicly and more often privately have wrung their hands over Obama’s ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) On Feb. 23, ABC News showed a billboard with an African-American child, with a caption on it saying “Endangered Species.” I was gob smacked, to say the least. Some women talked with a commentator expressing disdain for this billboard, as I thought also. This billboard was put up showing ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The new political article of faith is that tea baggers are blatant or closet racists. MSNBC’s Keith Olberman, Meghan McCain, and Captain Marvel Comics Captain America and his black sidekick Falcon, are the latest to poke fun at and pick a fight with the tea baggers over their alleged serial ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Apparently passing legislation has now become as difficult as a military operation – as President Obama will announce a “way forward” on health care reform later this week. What this most likely means is that he will support the use of reconciliation (the political buzz word of the week) in ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) At some point during this Bush-Obama non-economy I just went on automatic pilot, like many others. Friends tease me about being a survivalist but it was just dress rehearsal for this calamity. While always knowing how empty rhetoric about opportunity and prosperity was in zip codes like mine, when the door slams ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Black folks and religion. The stuff of arguments galore. Wags like myself wonder what all the fuss is about? No less than Dr. King observed “11 o’clock Sunday ” is the most segregated time in America. This obtains among the country’s Black and White Christian majority. Against such a ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) University of California San Diego chancellor Marye Anne Fox, the president of Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity, UCSD student leaders, and a bevy of civil rights leaders, and black and minority California lawmakers leaped over each other to lambaste the now infamous Compton Cookout at UCSD as racially insulting, insensitive, and ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) CHARLOTTE, North Carolina (AP) — With minutes to go until his exclusive negotiating window was to expire, Michael Jordan struck a deal late Friday to buy a controlling interest in the Charlotte Bobcats, making the NBA’s greatest player the owner of the money-losing team in his home state. Owner Bob ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Everyone has a story about an ex. Whether it’s a year-long stalker tale that landed you both in the hospital, or a new found friendship that grew stronger. Dealing with ex’s can not only affect your past relationships with them, but it can also effect current and future relationships. Can ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) David Paterson has always been a political star, and he’s definitely a fighter. His stellar career landed him in the New York governor’s mansion after a long climb up the gritty landscape of New York politics. Being the first African-American governor of New York was impressive enough without adding the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) After 10 years, Tavis Smiley is ending his annual State of the Black Union conference, which spawned best-selling books and his critical stance toward Barack Obama. The activist and PBS host said Wednesday that he needs time to focus on other projects, such as his four prime-time specials this ...