(ThyBlackMan.com) First let me say that sociologically (not legally) any person has the right to dress any way he or she likes. But in a realistic world, our women need to know they will be perceived, received and approached based on how they present themselves. The same is true for us ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The best characteristic of President Donald Trump is his willingness to fight. Actually, he doesn’t really fight, he fights back. If someone goes after him, he goes back at them twice as hard. He doesn’t let decorum or politeness get in his way, he gives people a dose of their ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Note the ROCKY films’ phenomenal success. Why did Sylvester Stallone, who wrote and stars in these pictures, name the hero “Rocky Balboa?” Balboa was the conquistador credited with making the first permanent European settlement on the mainland of the Americas. And “Rocky” evokes “Rocky Marciano.” He beat Joe Louis, and ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I’ve avoided a lot of the social media conversations surrounding the R. Kelly interview. This has been difficult: I’ve never had a problem using my 2 cents to make it rain. With that said, at what point in the interview did Gayle King become responsible for the answers he gave? ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Some Americans have much higher income and wealth than others. Former President Barack Obama explained, “I do think at a certain point you’ve made enough money.” An adviser to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez who has a Twitter account called “Every Billionaire Is A Policy Failure” tweeted, “My goal for this year ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The Pew Research Center has produced a projected profile of what the American electorate will look like ethnically in the 2020 elections. The portrait shows a continued trend of America becoming an increasingly nonwhite nation and electorate. Pew projects that 66.7 percent of eligible voters in 2020 will be white. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Years ago, a white friend told me her son came home from middle school in tears, overcome with guilt. He was taught that his white ancestors were responsible for horrible things done to native Americans, blacks and women. Today, her son is a young adult Communist. He hates America and ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Let me say up front that I am a Democrat. I am a Black woman, and there is no other existing party in which I would rather be. Black women are the soul of the Democratic Party. We can be depended upon when most others go south in elections, but ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Think of this non-fiction film as a meditation and it makes perfect sense. Try and squeeze it into a standard documentary frame and it just doesn’t conform. At the helm is Khalik Allah, whose most commercial endeavor was his work as a cinematographer and second unit director for Beyonce’s famed Lemonade ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Recently, R&B singer R. Kelly did an interview with Gayle King for CBS. Knowing his history with being put on the stove over these underaged girls, you’d think he’d avoid interviews in general. Even if he has a show, tour or album to promote just avoid interviews, man. Now with ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) There are actors that leaving a lasting memory with us in a film, yet we may not know who they are. They may not be the lead we always see out front, but their contribution to the films that mean so much. Kirk Taylor has played in many films we’ve ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Woke people are starting to make America feel like the “Night of the Living Dead.” In Congress, the toothy Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has managed to nibble the political necks of timid Democrats who now walk around like zombies, reactivated with dead ideas that have no connection to real life. Once bitten, ...