(ThyBlackMan.com) Father’s Day is a very hard day for me as I miss my father more than I have the words to convey. I try to channel that energy into celebrating fathers and what they mean to community and family. There are so many brothers that are amazing fathers to their ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I wish that I could have dismissed the ridiculous assertion as yet another occasion of “Uncle Remus” taking over the spirit of yet another black man. This “Uncle Remus” tale was outlandish as all of the other theories regarding why black women cannot find a “good black man”; however, this ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Republicans in name only (RINOs), notwithstanding, Democrats haven’t just lost their minds – they can only be described as loathsome and duplicitous, if not the personification of evil. And yet they consider themselves the arbiters of morals and moral standards. Even if the idea of morality could be loosely applied ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Racial bigotry is analogous to a train that makes periodic stops along a well-worn path. This train is a familiar site for indigenous populations, persons of African descent, Hispanics, and to poor whites. Although many have chosen to forget the roots of America’s new immigrants — the Irish, Russian, Italian, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Many of us are watching the direction the country is headed. We don’t know what the full ramifications of this administration will be on everyday necessities for Americans. Many of us know someone that is dependent on the government for something. While we are pushing self sufficiency financially and in ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The University of Maryland is one of the most recognizable universities on the East Coast. Located in College Park, Maryland, it is the largest university in the state and the largest in the Washington metropolitan area. There are opportunities to get a quality education in many areas at the University ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) A new study on racial disparities in police conduct found that differences in offending by suspects, not racism, explains officers’ responses. In the study “Is There Evidence of Racial Disparity in Police Use of Deadly Force?” professors from Michigan State and Arizona State universities analyzed officer-involved fatal shootings in 2015 ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) On the average day, I will guess that I come across at lease one self-proclaimed “Black Revolutionary.” You know the type of self-proclaimed arm chair revolutionary that I speak of. Everyone, except for those who are truly fortunate, have had the misfortune meeting at least one of the alluded to ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Can you trust your doctor? Maybe but not nearly as much as you think. But the question itself is loaded with many other questions you need to ask. Can you trust your doctor with what? To what extent? To do what? To be up to date with the best treatments, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Years of experience has convinced me that those occupying political positions do not always embrace change. Truthfully, the alluded to figures never embrace change if it arrives in a form that is demanding their removal from office. It is an understanding of the alluded to resistance to change that fuels ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) On May 22, 1856, Representative Preston Brooks entered the floor of the United States Senate, approached abolitionist Senator Charles Sumner, and beat the senator with a cane, almost taking his life. Brooks was provoked by a passionate anti-slavery speech that Sumner had delivered in the Senate three days earlier, in ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Recently, the NAACP, alongside members of the Congressional Black Caucus, gathered on the steps of Capitol Hill to demand a halt of the Trump administration’s continued attempts to force Thomas Farr—a known racist with ties to the late segregationist Senator Jesse Helms—into the federal judgeship of North Carolina. Located in ...