(ThyBlackMan.com) Relationships can be challenging but it is important to understand when one has run its course and is not in the best interest of the individuals involved. I am in no way advocating taking the easy way out. But I do believe we must understand unnecessary drama, disrespect, and conflict ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) USA policies are no different today, for African-Americans, than what they were 200 years ago or when the Ronald Reagan’s administration schemed to flood the black community with crack cocaine in order to fund his illegal war in Nicaragua. That one action completely destroyed millions of Black lives and presently ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Scientists say the big bang occurred, seeding planet Earth with microbial life that would one day turn into single cell organisms. The story goes that these single celled organisms would crawl out of primordial slime, sprout legs or wings and eventually end up becoming everything from dinosaurs to monkeys to ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Admittedly, I’m not a fan of statistics. So, when I read information about young Black men, I wince at the criticism that follows. Thus, I placed myself in the role of a confident, albeit slightly exacerbated male, and wrote the following commentary, as a tribute to African-American men who don’t ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Panic was about to set in as I surveyed the soul food restaurant in search of my friend and mentor, the one man who could make sense when there was none, my rock, that greatest of ghetto philosophers, Cleophus Leroy Jones. He wasn’t at his corner booth where he could ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) On June 17, 2015, nine African Americans were shot and killed in a church in Charleston, South Carolina. Dylan Roof, a white male opened fire during a prayer meeting inside the historic black church, killing multiple people, including the pastor, in an assault that authorities later described as a hate ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) There is an interesting dynamic that has grown over several years related to academic assessments. School districts across the nation have adopted a growing policy for testing (assessments). There are local district assessments, state assessments and national assessments. There are still questions what does all the testing mean and who ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) There are a few facts that we can’t get around. Our people are dying in the streets at the hands of civil servants. We don’t spend tax dollars to be killed. Compliance does not guarantee we will be treated fairly. Compliance doesn’t mean we will stay alive. We don’t have ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) A ‘couch potato’ is a person who spends little or no time exercising and a great deal of time watching television. Likewise, a ‘life potato’ is a person who spends little or no time aspiring to be better and a great deal of time watching their lives pass them by. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Who we are as black men and what we are to become depends to a great extent on a number of external factors largely beyond our control: family, genes, geography, social status etc. But the attribute we most influence and that single-handedly determines what we make of our lives is ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) There is a considerable trail of dead men that had (supposedly intimate) contact with President Obama, such as Donald Young, Larry Bland, and Nate Spencer. This conveniently kept his gay life style hidden from most of America, even though many in Chicago knew the truth about him. And wouldn’t you ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The almost daily reports of police killings of African-Americans and resulting community outrage have shined a light on persistent racism in the United States. Yet, in the first presidential debate, Donald Trump was asked what he would do to heal the racial divide and replied: “Bring back law and order.” ...