(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 ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) October 13, 2017 Officer Marcus McNeil was shot and killed while on patrol. The incident took place in New Orleans East. Apparently when the accused began shooting he was also shot when the officers began firing. He was treated for his wounds and is being detained. This situation is heartbreaking ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Flipping through my TV channels, I stumbled upon the 2017 Congressional Black Caucus Annual Prayer Breakfast on The Word Network; the world’s largest black religious channel. This year’s theme was, “And Still I Rise”. Folks, I thought, “Oh my gosh, these people have no shame.” This breakfast was all about ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Jeremiah 22:1-3,4-5 The Message (MSG) “Walking Out on the Covenant of God” 22 1-3 God’s orders: “Go to the royal palace and deliver this Message. Say, ‘Listen to what God says, O King of Judah, you who sit on David’s throne—you and your officials and all the people who ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Recently, Waka Flocka Flame made come comments that may have shocked some people in our community, but the comments come as no surprise to me at all when he said, “Man, I’m not African”. Waka Flocka Flame isn’t the only rich paid house negro that’s made such degrading statement, last ...