(ThyBlackMan.com) If Micah Xavier Johnson’s goal was to support people in Dallas who were protesting the fatal police shootings of Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge, La. and Philando Castile in Falcon Heights, Minn., he failed miserably. Not only did he not advance the cause by killing five law enforcement officers, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Just a day after millions of Americans celebrated the “Fourth of You Lie,” our nation got more evidence of the lie we live when we “celebrate” freedom. On July 5, 2016, Alton Sterling was killed by White police officers in Baton Rouge, Louisiana in an encounter that was blessedly ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Even in this age of runaway emotions, there are still some people who want to know the facts. Nowhere are facts more important, or more lacking, than in what has been aptly called “The War on Cops,” the title of a devastating new book by Heather Mac Donald. Few, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) President Barack Obama and his first attorney general Eric Holder called for an honest conversation about race. Holder even called us “a nation of cowards” because we were unwilling to have a “national conversation” about race. The truth of the matter is there’s been more than a half-century of ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Whenever I go to social media sometimes, I see negropeans spewing dumb stuff towards educated intellectual black people like myself. Here are several reasons why you can never free a black person from a Negropean mindset. 1. Indoctrination – when they are at child age, they’re not truly educated ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I am quite confident that what I am about to write will prove to be quite controversial, but I implore my readers to please read carefully what I am about to write. I will preface this column with one of my favorite Bible verses, Proverbs 4:7: “Wisdom is the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) There was never a more appropriately named book than “The War on Cops” by Heather Mac Donald, published a few weeks ago, on the eve of the greatest escalation of that war by the ambush murders of five policemen in Dallas. Nor is this war against the police confined ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) ABC News reports that “A majority of Americans disapprove of the FBI’s recommendation not to charge Hillary Clinton with a crime over her handling of email while secretary of state, and a similar number in a new ABC News/Washington Post poll say the issue leaves them worried about how ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) What happens when a nation has no conscience? Even as the country is grappling with the fact that two Black men were killed by White police officers within 48 hours of each other, so many people in positions of power have said little, if anything. As some were trying ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In the political season, tensions are often high and conversations can be heated or even non-existent. But let’s consider the impact on your current workplace, your community, neighborhood, or wherever you find yourself stuck in a sticky situation where politics come up. Chances are in any of these situations, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I write about leadership all the time. Yet, in the last year or so I’ve had some people say that I don’t write enough about how to be a good leader, instead concentrating on pointing out bad leadership traits. It would be easy for me to counter that by ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Lorenzo Collins, Michael Carpenter, Roger Owensby Jr. Timothy Thomas, Amadou Diallo, Patrick Dorismond, Kenneth Walker, Sean Bell, Timothy Russell, Kimani Gray, Ezzell Ford, John Crawford, Tamir Rice, Oscar Grant, Eric Garner, Kajieme Powell, Malissa Williams, Vonderitt Myers, Dante Parker, Michael Brown, Tyisha Miller, Trayvon Martin, Dontre Hamilton, Tony Robinon, ...