(ThyBlackMan.com) I could start off by saying there is no such thing as the “black vote” because black is the color of our car tires, not the color of our skin. And though I would be factually correct, that is a pineal gland discussion for another time. So let’s assume that ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) USA policies are no different today, for African-Americans, than what they were 200 years ago or when the Ronald Reagan’s administration schemed to flood the black community with crack cocaine in order to fund his illegal war in Nicaragua. That one action completely destroyed millions of Black lives and presently ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Scientists say the big bang occurred, seeding planet Earth with microbial life that would one day turn into single cell organisms. The story goes that these single celled organisms would crawl out of primordial slime, sprout legs or wings and eventually end up becoming everything from dinosaurs to monkeys to ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Admittedly, I’m not a fan of statistics. So, when I read information about young Black men, I wince at the criticism that follows. Thus, I placed myself in the role of a confident, albeit slightly exacerbated male, and wrote the following commentary, as a tribute to African-American men who don’t ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Panic was about to set in as I surveyed the soul food restaurant in search of my friend and mentor, the one man who could make sense when there was none, my rock, that greatest of ghetto philosophers, Cleophus Leroy Jones. He wasn’t at his corner booth where he could ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) On June 17, 2015, nine African Americans were shot and killed in a church in Charleston, South Carolina. Dylan Roof, a white male opened fire during a prayer meeting inside the historic black church, killing multiple people, including the pastor, in an assault that authorities later described as a hate ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) There are a few facts that we can’t get around. Our people are dying in the streets at the hands of civil servants. We don’t spend tax dollars to be killed. Compliance does not guarantee we will be treated fairly. Compliance doesn’t mean we will stay alive. We don’t have ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) There is a considerable trail of dead men that had (supposedly intimate) contact with President Obama, such as Donald Young, Larry Bland, and Nate Spencer. This conveniently kept his gay life style hidden from most of America, even though many in Chicago knew the truth about him. And wouldn’t you ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The almost daily reports of police killings of African-Americans and resulting community outrage have shined a light on persistent racism in the United States. Yet, in the first presidential debate, Donald Trump was asked what he would do to heal the racial divide and replied: “Bring back law and order.” ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In quick succession, an El Cajon police officer gunned down an alleged mentally challenged man, a Tulsa police officer gunned down a distressed motorist, a Charlotte, North Carolina officer gunned down an allegedly combative suspect, Pasadena, California police officers violently restrained a distressed man who allegedly became combative and he ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) A wise person will change their beliefs and ideology, when faced with new information. A foolish person refuses to verify new information, and will not change. After the end of the Ice Age, came Earth’s fifth extinction, after 11,000 BC. Following that, in 7200 BC, Yehovah restored life on Earth, ...