(ThyBlackMan.com) During a BBC radio address titled, “The Russian Enigma,” on October 1, 1939, former British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill said, “I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma; but perhaps there is a key. That key is ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Guitar-strumming iconoclastic Ted Nugent got an obligatory visit from and interview by the Secret Service for his loose-lipped crack that to ensure that President Obama’s not be re-elected, “we need to ride into that battlefield and chop their heads off in November” at the National Rifle Association convention. But ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) By now we should all be fairly familiar with how certain media stories emerge onto various networks and into the public sphere. Someone says something really stupid. Media outlets pounce on the statement and quote it or replay it ad infinitum. Pundits (present company included) ‘appear’ on various networks ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) First I want to give a shout out to all the African Americans out on the front line protesting against the horrible atrocities in the Sudan, especially those who have written diligently and criticized the President for his lack of attention toward that war torn nation. Not to pat ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Attribution is extremely important in writing. Over this past week, I picked up a copy of the Nation Magazine at my local library. There they have a basket where people can bring their used magazines for others to read. It is there where I pick up the Nation along ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Someone recently forwarded me a picture of the Chicago team for the 2012 re-election campaign for President Barack Obama. The picture was full of enthusiastic supporters, each of them grinning from ear-to-ear. But in the midst of all this excitement about re-electing the nation’s first black president, there was ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In the Bible we are admonished by the apostle Paul to pray for all men, especially those in positions of authority. As a fundamentalist Christian; one who beliefs that the Bible is a divinely inspired book of principles, ideologies and truths by which we should conduct our lives; and ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) From a Wall Street Journal piece on the passing of Mike Wallace, “Wallace didn’t just interview people. He interrogated them. He cross-examined them. Sometimes he eviscerated them. His weapons were many: thorough research, a cocked eyebrow, a skeptical “Come on” and a question so direct sometimes it took your ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Malcolm X and Elijah Muhammad, David and Saul, Achilles and Agamemnon. What do these three pairs of leaders all have in common? An important lesson for the future that we can all learn by looking at the past. Will we heed the message and understand? The ancient Greeks were ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Black twenty-year-old male Danielle Simpson with two black associates were interrupted by 84 year old Geraldine Davidson while in the process of burglarizing her home. They duct taped her mouth, bound her hands and legs and threw the white former school teacher and church organist into the trunk of ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The other day, a non-black person asked me what I thought about the state of black leadership in America. He then mentioned that he is confused about exactly who speaks for black people, since he sees a new black face on TV every other week. I think he wanted me ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) It’s been a long Republican primary season. Launching with a debate in South Carolina in May of 2011 that was attended by two little-known candidates that would end up becoming stars of the Republican party almost overnight: Herman Cain and Rick Santorum, to now where it is all but ...