(ThyBlackMan.com) We seldom hear any good news here in the United States about the African continent but there are many positive indicators about its future. According to an article in the Washington Post by Salih Booker and Ari Rickman from the Center for International Policy: Since 2000, at least half of ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In conversations with most college officials, many CEOs, many politicians and race hustlers, it’s not long before the magical words “diversity” and “inclusiveness” drop from their lips. Racial minorities are the intended targets of this sociological largesse, but women are included, as well. This obsession with diversity and inclusion is ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Should Black Folks leave the United Stated? Yes! And no! The answer relies on many factors. Where do you stand on the on-going debate on blackness and the centralizing of an entire people/race/culture? Can blackness and all its vastness be compartmentalized and still rightfully engaged with a unified tongue and ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) It has come to my attention that you’ve just adopted a rule requiring candidates to run, and serve, as a Democrats. Such arbitrary rules are by definition undemocratic, and they’re also an insult to the voter. You’re trying to deprive the voters of their freedom of choice. Such an action ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The left is quickly running out of excuses for why Donald Trump’s economic policies have caused a boom rather than the bust they predicted with such great certainty. Last year, when the U.S. economy began to percolate with faster growth, the media and other Trump haters argued that this simply ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In the 2012 presidential election, I recall a close friend who is a successful businessman in his own right, telling me the reason we had to support Mitt Romney was because he was a successful businessman. My friend insisted that we needed a businessman as president if we were to ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I love reading stories of challenge, overcoming obstacles, self-searching and redemption. D. Revolution’s “One Chance to be a Man” takes the reader on a very intimate journey of a man searching for purpose and peace in a world of hardship and chaos. The author bore his soul in the pages ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) A call came from guests on the 3rd floor who hadn’t quite figured out how to unlock the attachment on their room door. A swanky vacation rental with a nightly rate somewhere in the low 300’s on a busy stretch, downtown New Orleans. Arriving, I spot three Black women, luggage ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The funeral of my dad, Dr Rev Lloyd E. Marcus, was July 7, 2018. My sister told everyone she was wearing a yellow dress to Dad’s funeral because we wanted it to be a celebration of Dad’s extraordinary life and homecoming. Yellow represents bright sunshine. She also chose it to ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) It’s no secret that President Trump has shaken up the Washington, DC establishment in his first 500 days in office. His less than conventional administration is clearly less worried about political niceties and protocol and is squarely focused on creating millions of new jobs. The Trump economy is squashing unemployment ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Remember when or if you misbehaved in school and you got sent to the detention room after school, completed an in-school suspension which was torture if you were a popular student or if you were on a first name basis by the principal, you were sent to their office, immediately? ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) For as long as many people of color can remember, succeeding generations have called for justice. Despite these age-old pleas, justice is not only elusive, but frustrating since the enactment of a series of civil rights laws. Despite federal guarantees of equal treatment, much of Black America experiences something short ...