(ThyBlackMan.com) Two of the oldest and most venerated public policy institutes in Washington, D.C., the American Enterprise Institute and the Brookings Institution, have produced a new joint report dealing with the issue of fighting poverty in America. The report, “Opportunity, Responsibility, and Security: A Consensus Plan for Reducing Poverty and ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Each time I am confronted with the news of another police officer killing a black child, I find myself bracing to digest a bevy of emotions. There is a profound sadness that is immediately followed by anger and frustration which comes from losing another brilliant life too soon. As ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Right out of the gate, are there lazy, sorry, selfish, game-playing, immature and irresponsible African American men? Yes there are and I am not oblivious to that fact. BUT this article is not about African American men, it is about the women we encounter, the women we choose and ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) PROCRASTINATION Every adult knows someone who has a great idea or wants to try something but is waiting to find the perfect love, for the stars to align, to start a new job, or for the kids to move out for them to begin. As time passes, those goals ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Standards of beauty are viewed the world over by the same criteria except when the person in question is of mixed race, specifically, a person of African American blood and another ethnicity. Case in point: Miss Japan 2015, 21 year old Ariana Miyamoto, is of mixed-race, or hafu, as ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In yesterday’s post, I talked about instigators of stress and briefly how they get into people’s lives and can cause harm. Today I’m going to mention 10 quick and relatively easy ways to help relieve stress. Actually, some might take a bit of introspection, but if you can figure ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I wish I had a $1 for every time I received an email asking, “How can I afford personal development if I’m broke?” I’d likely take more online classes than I do now. What else would a self-proclaimed self-help junky do with such a windfall? My response is typically ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) When the President of the United States asks the television networks to set aside time for him to broadcast a speech from the Oval Office, we can usually expect that he has something new to say. But President Obama’s speech Sunday night was just a rehash of what he ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) It took a Muslim couple’s killing spree of Americans in San Bernardino, California, the worst terrorist attack since 9/11, for the New York Times to conclude America has a “gun epidemic.” America does have a gun problem. But it’s not a legal-gun-owner/mass-murder crisis. It’s an illegal-gun/black-children epidemic. Guns in the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) FBI official David Bowdich issued this statement immediately after the mass killing in San Bernardino by alleged shooters Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik, “It would be irresponsible and premature for me to call this terrorism. The FBI defines terrorism very specifically, and that is the big question for ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I am going to hit this topic hard – but hard, fair and accurately. If you smoke weed recreationally and do not like the assertions I am about to make, too bad. But I dare you to keep reading and I dare you to share this article with everyone ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) From Sandy Hook to Columbine, Ferguson to the Boston Bombing, San Bernardino to 911, are these incidents happening as they have been reported? Or are they at least partially “FALSE FLAGS”? Are parts of these tragedies scripted, contrived and strategically implemented by the powers that be in order to ...