(ThyBlackMan.com) Acquittals for killing unarmed people of color will be to this generation what stock footage of police using water hoses and siccing dogs on protesters was to the 1960’s. Almost 54 years after the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, unemployment in many black communities is twice the national average, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In 1937, Napoleon Hill published a book entitled Think and Grow Rich. Any person who’s read this remarkable book has been enlightened and challenged to achieve success on a greater level. Think and Grow Rich went on to become one of the Top Ten best-selling books ever written. It has ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) As a Texas native, I have witnessed many dark days in the fight to ensure voting rights for all people. The 2013 Supreme Court decision, Shelby County v. Holder, overturned portions of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 in historically discriminatory states and allowed those states to implement changes to election laws without ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Recently I celebrated my fifty-third birthday and, as is my custom, took a little time alone to reflect on my goals for the coming year. This year I decided to make a list of spiritual nuggets that I have attempted to apply to my life and to my coaching philosophy. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) When Congressman Steve Scalise was shot the gun man was not immediately identified. How many Americans saw the breaking story, and caught fear thinking our congress is under attack? Let’s be honest there were people that saw the news and immediately thought ISIS had attacked our government via this shooting. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) After the congressional testimony of fired FBI Director James Comey, many Democrats, with notable exceptions, pulled back from the impeachment talk. MSNBC’s Chris Matthews, one of the cheerleaders of the Donald Trump-must-go crowd, even said that Comey failed to make a case for obstruction of justice. “The big story ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) If the traffic-stop homicide of Philando Castile was not e-bloody-nough, the recent acquittal of the Minnesota officer certainly calls for an interrogation of the present condition of the Black man in America – our value here needs to be reformed. In the beginning was the word and that is also ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In recent news, comedian Bill Maher was figuratively lynched by a mob of angry Black viewers and empathetic white observers because on National TV he told Republican Senator Ben Sasse that “I’m not a House Nigger.” With a knee-jerk reaction, multiple thoughts raced through my head. I think initially I ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Someone much wiser than me once said, “You don’t raise heroes, you raise sons and daughters”. Negative affirmation is the opposite of positive affirmation; it’s affirming something that is unproductive, un-needful and un-founded. There is no greater tragedy on this earth than a dad who uses negative affirmations as part ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) If Tupac Shakur was still alive today, he would be turning 46 years old on June 16th. On one hand, it’s natural to be somber that one of the world’s most influential icons and hip hop music’s most beloved act-dead or alive, life was cut short at 25. But on ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Why must “We” come together? It is not “We” that is dividing America. It is radical liberalism dividing America. A radical liberal shot up the Congressional baseball practice. Why are “We” to lower our rhetoric? It’s not “We” rioting in the streets, pepper spraying, canceling speakers and destroying private ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I heard Rush Limbaugh say things are looking good regarding Republicans passing health care. Paraphrasing, Rush said if that happens Leftists’ bad behavior will elevate to new levels. When the GOP passes health care fake news media will gleefully incite Leftists to new levels of violence. Fake news media created ...