(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 ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I listen to the news about the 2016 Presidential election religiously. What amazes me is that so many have just discovered that Blacks and Latinos will play such a decisive role in the 2016 election. Didn’t we do that in 2008, 2012 and many other elections? Okay, so Blacks ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) We’ve all known (and maybe secretly hated) at least one person who was lucky enough to lead a lifetime of totally carefree living while never seeming to age. Whether it was drinking, smoking, or being able to eat whatever they wanted without gaining a pound, these people seem to ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) George Orwell said, “But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.” Gore Vidal elaborated on that insight, saying, “As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate.” And John Milton predicted, “When language in common use in any country ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) ”Love your neighbor as yourself,” is one of the two greatest commandments (Mark 12:31). It is often quoted when someone is making a point of the importance of loving others. But the most important element of that command is, “as yourself.” If you aren’t good at loving yourself, you ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) When I first heard that the Congressional Black Caucus had endorsed Hillary Clinton, I couldn’t believe my ears. And yes, I said the Congressional Black Caucus. The debate over whether or not every member of the caucus agreed with the PAC’s endorsement of Hillary Clinton is nothing but a political ploy. It ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) A funny thing happened to me on my way to writing this blog. Two stories came out that were so unbelievably outrageous, ridiculous, and absurd that I had to say something: Now that Republican Governor Rick Snyder has succeeded in poisoning the water supply for Flint MI., Republican presidential ...