(ThyBlackMan.com) It’s one thing to disagree with the decision to go to war in Iraq. That, believe it or not, was once a minority view. According to a Gallup poll taken in March 2003, the night after the Iraq war began, 76 percent supported President George W. Bush’s decision. Two months after ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I was recently talking to a friend of mine who’s also an independent consultant. I asked her how things were going and she said they were a bit slow to start the year. That happens as a consultant. This also happens. She said that someone we both worked with ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” William Butler Yeats Students attending HBCU’s need to be engaged and participate in educational, social and leadership building experiences. It is important that students from freshmen to seniors understand the importance of Marketing themselves and ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Addressing a crowded room of magnet school educators and supporters last week, Acting U.S. Secretary of Education John King explained his personal commitment to school diversity and the importance of reducing racial isolation in schools. “I was a kid who benefited from intentional school diversity, and I’m a parent ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The growth of blogging has transitioned beyond the basics of text, there are now VBlogging, MicroBlogging, Podcasting and a host of other resources and tools to share diverse and dynamic content. The importance of writing can never be denied because in the areas of education and business writing is ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The leaders and founders of the “Black Lives Matter (BLM)” movement are dangerous because they are angry people who are reacting emotionally instead of responding based on intellect and clear cut strategic planning. There approach is obvious and expected – and what is expected can be prepared for then ...
(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 ...