(ThyBlackMan.com) Today, as the nation pauses to honor the late humanitarian and civil rights leader, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., I am forced to return to the life and legacy of Jesus Christ, whose struggle for peace and justice was not unlike that of Dr. King in the twentieth century. Indeed, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) On Saturday, Donald Trump shrewdly flipped the table on Nancy Pelosi in the government shutdown standoff. He has now proposed a grand bargain on immigration: legalization of some 1 million so-called Dreamers — the foreigners who were brought into the U.S. illegally by their parents — and an immediate end ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) This year, 2019 marks the 400th year since the Dutch ship White Lion arrived in Jamestown in the British Colony that was to become the Commonwealth of Virginia with “20 and odd Negroes” from Africa. The arrival of these indentured enslaved Africans was the opening chapter in one of the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) After viewing Glass, there will be a great debate: Should M. Night Shyamalan stop writing scripts for his films? Should he refrain from directing them? Or maybe both! Remember The Sixth Sense? Slow, odd movie with a very shocking ending? Shyamalan has gone back to that drawing board and sketched in a hybrid ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Hillary Clinton and New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced their satanic bill to allow abortions through all nine months up to birth. The intense jubilant faces of these two Democrats in the photo while launching their baby killing campaign was bone-chillingly evil. Clinton and Cuomo held their joined hands high ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Nothing about An Acceptable Loss screams, “Pay $12 bucks for me at the theater because I’m worth it.” This isn’t an artistic breakthrough (Roma). It doesn’t expand the thriller genre (A Quiet Place). The drama on view is never deep (Leave No Trace). The ensemble performances won’t win prestigious awards (The Favourite). ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Writing to fellow clergy from a Birmingham Jail (The Negro Is Your Brother), Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. – gravely concerned about all who were poor and experiencing inequality – said, “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) A political scalping occurred in Washington D.C. last week. Once again the liberal media and Democrats played the predictable race politics to attack Iowa Rep. Steve King, while members of the GOP political class fell in line—obliging the left and piling on one of their own in the act of ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) There’s a statuette in my mother’s house that says “Any man can be a father but it takes a special man to be dad.” It’s a saying I’ve kept with me and my younger brother is quick to point out that the statuette says the same thing. The thing is, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The Oklahoma Sooners have added one of the more intriguing graduate transfer quarterbacks in recent yards by adding former Alabama quarterback Jalen Hurts. Despite racking up wins for Alabama for three years, the emergence of Tua Tagovailoa led to Hurts seeking a starting quarterback position elsewhere. Hurts’ decision to transfer ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) This week the U.S. pauses to honor the late great Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. But I want to talk about the other “King” making news: Congressman Steve King of Iowa. I must admit, I was as bewildered as he when he said, “When did white nationalism and white ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The rapper Soulja Boy was recently interviewed by DJ Akademiks and it has gone viral all over social media as the rapper makes aggressive claims of giving birth to a lot of well-known rappers, careers even down to the B-list rappers such as Tyga, Sean Kingston, etc. The problem is, ...