(ThyBlackMan.com) Under this vicious and oppressive colonial education system, our kids are deliberately the victims of verbal and psychological abuse at the hands of white nationalist administrators and teachers as well as being intimidated, harassed, tazed, pepper sprayed, assaulted, and arrested by the pig squad aka the police on a daily ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) For those of you who haven’t heard, Mary and I moved from Florida to a tiny town in West Virginia to be closer to our parents. We are experiencing wonderful culture shock. I am not a fan of the winding mountain roads. Supermarket and hardware stores are over 20 miles ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “Since 1983, the respective wealth of Black and Latino families has plunged from $6,800 and $4,000 in 1983 to $1,700 and $2,000 in 2013. These figures exclude durable goods like automobiles and electronics, as these items depreciate quickly in value and do not hold the same liquidity, stability or appreciation ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) What President Trump dropped into the lap of the National Football League (NFL) was a destructive bomb which lined up some players against team owners, and polarized the league. Mr. Trump knew his racist bomb would break the league up into opposing factions because of the issue and the employee ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Paraphrasing my buddy, British playwright George Bernard Shaw, “The reasonable man adapts himself to the world, the unreasonable man adapts the world to himself; therefore, all progress is dependent upon the unreasonable man.” Jesus Christ was unreasonable enough to think that by challenging the social and class norms of his ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Who would have thought we’d live to see such a polarizing and pejorative figure as the current occupant of the White House as Donald J. Trump? While history tends to ceremonially rate modern presidents as endemic to the national cause, the judgment on America’s forty-fifth President appears to have been ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) For years now we have heard the pro and con arguments about the so-called achievement gap between white and black students in the United States. The gap itself refers to the chasm in proficiency scores that are linked to socio-economic status and attainment. Quality of schools, family structure and neighborhood ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Late last week, President Donald Trump signed an executive order directing the secretaries of the treasury and health and human services to cease making payments to health care insurance companies in behalf of the more than 6 million Americans who qualify for these payments under the Patient Protection and Affordable ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) President Donald Trump has a knack for diverting attention from his failures, often using race as the vehicle. So when Sen. John McCain came out against the cruel Graham-Cassidy Republican health care bill late Friday, guaranteeing its well-deserved crash, Trump went speeding down the racially divisive low road. At a ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The assumption is that a lot of those upset about the racially offensive Dove ad don’t use Dove anyway. Some of our own people have taken the position that black folks just want something to “fuss and complain” about. Then there are others that don’t feel its offensive because a ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) It is becoming increasingly harder to have educated civilized debate these days. People do not know how to agree to disagree anymore. Disagreeing makes you an enemy. You can’t even disagree a little bit. You must be all in or you better be ready to fight. Relationships that took lifetimes ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) November 18, 2017 is the date for the run-off for the electing of the new mayor. What we know for certain is the new mayor will be New Orleans first female mayor, and from the looks of things it will be a black woman. The first thing that caught my ...