(ThyBlackMan.com) In quick succession in one week’s time, a protestor waves a sign “bye bye black sheep” and a small chorus chimes in and puts it to the popular song ditty of “Bye, Bye, Blackbird” in front of Desert Vista High School in Phoenix where President Obama spoke about housing finance ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Today, my brain froze in its tracks. I found myself speechless, yet full of enough energy to power a nuclear warhead. The emotions bounced around my insides like disco lights, and I found myself more sensitive to my environment than I’d been since the day I came out of ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) President Barack Obama faces a daunting challenge in reining in the National Security Agency’s surveillance program. The proposals that he floated include more civilian oversight, greater transparency, and a panel of experts to recommend even more reforms before the year is out. The proposals are a good first step to ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I don’t dislike Don Lemon, but I’ll admit that he’s never made me comfortable. The only time he’s ever interviewed me was during a segment about Tiger Woods a few years ago, and I picked up a peculiar arrogance in his voice and gestures that, quite frankly, threw me ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) While RNC Chairman Reince Priebus has done nothing, I repeat nothing, but talk for six months about how he’s going to attract more minority voters to the party. He thought he would keep up the charade at the RNC’s spring meeting in Los Angeles. In a move meant to ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Harlem Democratic congressman Charles Rangel predictably took much heat when he flatly called the Tea Party “white crackers.” He said this is the bunch that fought civil rights. By that Charles Rangel meant the civil rights, and voting rights bills in the 1960s, and affirmative action programs from the 1970s ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) After reading my article, “The African American Black Man: The New Neanderthal?,” a very well-meaning gentleman said the following:. “I see what you’re trying to say, Eric, but your reference to Darwin in this context, however metaphorical, is disturbing. White supremacists have long invoked pseudo-Darwinian notions to justify their ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I have heard it said that in many cases, professional athletes really want to be rappers and rock stars. Actors and actresses want to be politicians. And as for politicians, some of them behave as if they want to be all of the above. What other explanation could there ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) President Barack Obama’s ascendance to the oval office was worth a fraction of the importance which has been claimed, the president would do something to stop the human catastrophe of mass incarceration and the destruction it has wrought on black Americans. Instead he has officially given it his blessing. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The fact blacks praised Jay Z for his comments on the Zimmerman verdict and bashed CNN’s Don Lemon for pointing out the problems blacks bring on themselves is exactly what’s wrong with “Black America.” I’ve always rejected the news media and self-appointed black leaders’ persistent efforts in relegating blacks ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Hold the presses! Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson, those bad “Black militant” leaders who all these years have exercised a Svengali-like influence over the masses have lost their clout. So says Black conservative pundit John McWhorter in the July 17 The New Republic magazine. Writing at his oiliest, McWhorter begins his ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) There are genuine and sincere men and women of integrity who believe Mr. Obama’s policies have not been affected in lifting blacks out of their dismal economic condition brought on by the 2008 downturn. The facts are on the side of critics in that blacks have not fared well ...