(ThyBlackMan.com) Why don’t you work for yourself yet? If you do, kudos and hand claps. Keep grinding. I often ask friends, colleagues, and associates about their professions and their passions. More often than not, those two things are not in alignment. Then I’ll pose a fun, “what if” question, as I ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) As strange as it seems, I now view the Bush years with nostalgia. Both Big Bush (POTUS 41) and his son Shrub (POTUS 43) incurred the ire of Democrats, with Shrubs Supreme Court-complicit theft of the 2000 election prompting anger and protests. Both Bushes, perhaps because of their love of ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) First off let me start by saying I am no way shape or form a professional therapist. In my 40+ years I’ve been through enough to make me a professional in my own experiences. I always maintain that I am a product of everything I have ever been through, friendships, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Don’t let the headline deceive you. I’m hopeful, even somewhat optimistic, about Republican chances on Tuesday, and the thought of losing even one iota of ground to these sanctimonious blowhards repulses me to my core. But I’m also realistic to the possibility that Tuesday could be a good day for ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) What is soul food to you? In your mind, is soul food synonymous with black people? Mouth-watering Southern cuisine? Fried, smothered, delicious, nutritious? Candied yams and ham hocks. Sweet potato pie’s and smothered pork chops. What about our greens? We have to have our greens! As an on-again, off-again holistic ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) When the Supreme Court decided in favor of the group Citizens United in its lawsuit against the Federal Elections Commission back in 2010, it opened the floodgates allowing money to pour into political campaigns that has continued unabated. Pundits predict that at least a record $5 billion will be ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) One thing that has become evident over the last nine years: the death of Michael Jackson flipped an ugly narrative on its head. Gone, are the allusions of Jackson as a delusional, reclusive pop star. Instead, he was re-branded the greatest entertainer to ever live. Not that this was a ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) What is this year’s midterm election about? President Trump wants it to be about him, stumping the country saying that he’s on the ballot. Or that it’s about immigrants, or Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, or tax cuts, or about hurricanes, droughts and catastrophic climate change, or about an economy ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The question of intellectual freedom has always existed within Black America. Even a cursory glance of the storied history of Black America reveals that luminaries such as Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois did not always agree, Marcus Garvey and DuBois were often at each others throat, even our beloved ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) With the attempted assassination of a series of Democratic leaders and the savage murder of 11 worshipers in the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh in the past week, the American people are witnessing one of the most horrific seasons of hate and terror in recent memory. And, while there ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Former President Obama created a massive political divide between the left and the right we see today. His attacks against the right-wingers created an emboldened electorate, and now the fruits of his rhetoric are seen. President Trump is a result of Obama’s political discourse disguised as executive leadership. However, the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) All of us reap what we sow. What goes around also comes around. It’s karma. It’s the boomerang affect. Whatever you want to call it, nobody gets away with anything – not really. Not even the most powerful nation in the world. If I were a Caucasian man of British ...