(ThyBlackMan.com) Actor Jussie Smollett finally gets his day in a Chicago courtroom. He is being charged with six counts of disorderly conduct. But the charges are an afterthought to the real charge. That is that even a celebrity Black man can be the victim of a racist hate crime. That’s ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The makeup of the United States population has changed over the centuries, and will continue to do so. But “a three way ethnic component was involved in the original basic ingredients of the formative American nation—white Englishmen, black Africans, and red Indians. The fact that nineteenth-century immigration added millions ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Slavery made perfect sense, so too did Jim Crow in its time, as does mass incarceration today. If it did not, we would long ago have ended it. Why haven’t we? According to Norbert Wiener, we “live in a chaotic moral universe,” wherein “our main obligation is to establish ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “The curse of poverty has no justification in our age. It is socially as cruel and blind as the practice of cannibalism at the dawn of civilization, when men ate each other because they had not yet learned to take food from the soil or to consume the abundant ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Remember when Joe Biden ran for president in what commentators called the “centrist” lane of the Democratic primaries? The idea was that a “moderate” like Biden, unlike rival Bernie Sanders, would not push radical plans to completely change American society. That would reassure non-progressive Democrats, and independents, too, that ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The first Gallup poll which measured church membership in 1937, resulted in 73 percent of adult Americans confirming they had some type of religious affiliation. While membership remained around 70 percent during the next six decades, those who claimed to have a church affiliation fell below 50 percent for ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I am sure that not a single African-American with at least a cursory understanding of the history of American race relations was surprised by the recent acquittal of white teenaged killer Kyle Rittenhouse. This latest reiteration of America’s Native Son proved that he could kill two civilians during a ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) It is time America apologized for the crime of slavery, and President Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. is the man to do it. It is hard to believe that a simple, national apology for the 400-year-old crime of kidnapping, trafficking, selling, and enslaving millions of free Black women, men, and ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) There is no other way to put it. The overwhelming majority of Americans think Vice President Kamala Harris is doing a lousy job as vice president. So poor, that her rating in a recent USA Today/Suffolk poll bottomed out at 28 percent approval. This was a historic low. No ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) King Richard has won the coveted Miami International Film Festival GEMS 2021 Audience Award, and it’s no wonder. It’s a crowd-pleaser! The spirit of the prescient planner, dreamer and barker Richard Williams, the work ethic and faith of his wife Oracene “Brandy” Price coupled with the talent of Venus and Serena molded ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Black women leaders have been working on the issue of voting rights, calling for the passage of the John Lewis Voting Rights Act, the Freedom to Vote Act and the Build Back Better Reconciliation Act, as well as for D.C. statehood. Several leaders, including Melanie Campbell, CEO of the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Kyle Rittenhouse and Trayvon Martin were both the same age-17 years old. They both had some dings on their record. They both wound up in a much-watched courtroom drama. There are of course a couple of differences. Martin was Black and slain. His killer, George Zimmerman, was arrested, tried, ...