(ThyBlackMan.com) Recently, retired Lt. Col Ralph Peters and Stacey Dash, both contributors on Fox News shows, blatantly disrespected President Barack Obama on different news shows on national television. Lt. Col. Peters called our president a “total p*sy,” and actress Stacey Dash blurted “our president doesn’t give a sht about terrorism.” ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) GOP leaders led by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell predictably wasted no time in swearing that anyone who President Obama named to replace the late Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia had zero chance of being confirmed. McConnell saw no contradiction in the fact that he had no trouble voting ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) As 2016 gets underway, I am perturbed to find out that there has been over 100 injuries and 17 (and counting) murders in Chiraq (Chicago). What gives? Didn’t Spike Lee just make a movie to bring attention to the crisis there? What happened? I feel that there’s some tainted ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Now that we have gotten the first two political anomalies out of the way en route to electing a new president – mostly White Iowa and New Hampshire – the primaries and caucuses are moving to states that are more representative of a diverse America and the outcomes will ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) You may like Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders, but neither of them represent the solid core moral values of the mature African American community. The reason you do not see that, if you don’t, is because you have not done your homework. Like most African Americans, you have probably ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Teaching educational technology at Edward Waters College provides great joy and purpose that combines teaching as an elementary school teacher in public education with my teaching in higher education. I enjoy having the best of both worlds, helping to prepare elementary students for life after elementary school and helping ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Apparently, Black music still matters and kicks ass. Snatches wigs. Chokes Th(r)oats. Makes white folks extremely uncomfortable. In other words, black folks jumping off the porch, with squinted eyes, asking “who you is and what you here for?” Chile. Kendrick Lamar jumped off the porch and said he was ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Every man has a place In his heart there’s a space And the world can’t erase his fantasies Take a ride in the sky On our ship, fantasize All your dreams will come true right away And we will live together Until the twelfth of never Our voices will ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) This Valentine’s Day 2016 I participated in a 1.7 mile “Love Walk” in Atlanta to stand up against “black on black” crime, organized by Rev. Ben Stellmacher and Sunshine Lewis. The weather was cold and the streets were hard yet hundreds of people came out to participate because they ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Amid the petty bickering, loud rhetoric and sordid attack ads in this year’s primary election campaigns, the death of a giant — Justice Antonin Scalia — suddenly overshadows all of that. The vacancy created on the Supreme Court makes painfully clear the huge stakes involved when we choose a ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders and rival Hillary Clinton trek to a meeting with the Reverend Al Sharpton for two reasons. The first is Sharpton himself. President Obama paid absolutely no heed to the by now ritualistic anti-Sharpton name calling by the assorted menagerie of right wing talk show ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) This past weekend I had the chance to be part of a historic event in Washington, DC. Black Americans for a Better Future (BAFBF) hosted their fourth annual Black Republican Trailblazer Awards Luncheon at the Willard Intercontinental Hotel. We had a packed house for both the Saturday evening VIP ...