(ThyBlackMan.com) It’s been a few weeks since a mess started boiling over in Florida with the rollout of the new AP African American Studies course, and no one involved is looking good: not the state Department of Education, not the College Board, and definitely not Gov. Ron DeSantis, who blasted ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Call us “black”, even though we are not the color of our shoes, belts and car tires. Call us “negro”. Call us “Afro-American”. But hesitate to and avoid calling us African-American, unless you just have to? Why? Because there is a fear that America has about the real identity ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I am not a prophet nor a psychic and I do not make predictions. I look at the signs, clues, hard evidence and developments most of you are not paying any attention to. From those indicators, patterns or cycles, I can extrapolate chains of events. So before you say ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) During President Joe Biden’s State of the Union speech, he got booed after accusing “some” Republicans of seeking to “sunset” some of the so-called entitlements. Biden said: “Instead of making the wealthy pay their fair share, some Republicans … want Medicare and Social Security to sunset… Anybody who doubts ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) You know it’s true, but if you don’t, you are sound asleep on the pillow of denial. America hates “black” people. Look at the irony. Import slaves from Africa, force them to build a country then refuse to treat them as equals. In fact, treat them just the opposite. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The United States is inching toward World War III with China. All the lights on the dashboard are flashing. The pivot to Asia proclaimed by past Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Massive arms sales to Taiwan. The United States Taiwan Defense Command in Taiwan. The Quad with Japan, Australia, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) African American history was celebrated at this year’s Super Bowl. It was the first time that two Black quarterbacks faced off against each other. John Hurts of the Philadelphia Eagles and Patrick Mahomes played a good game, and the Chiefs won narrowly. The NFL is more than 100 years ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) As Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, and their political team ready themselves, to enter the 2024 presidential race, potentially against a known liar, they promote a vile policy of undercounting professional, blue-collar, and working-class Americans’ Job rates, as President Joe Biden stated, in his State of the Union address (SOTU), ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Students at Hillcrest High School in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, are learning a hard and valuable lesson. These students are not just hearing about the fight behind the civil rights movement; they are living it. In the same spirit behind the boycotts, marches, and lunch counter sit-ins of the 1960s, more than ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Last weekend I was at home cooking myself a BEAUTIFUL dinner (in my best Trump voice). Ba-lieve me, my dinners are the most beautiful dinners; but I digress. While cooking, I thought about Senator Tim Scott, Republican Senator from South Carolina. I have known him for many, many years ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) As a Black man and retired police officer, I have been crying quite a bit lately. Crying from a deep sense of outrage, grief, shame and fear. Outrage because, again, yet another unarmed Black man has been brutally killed by police officers. In communities of color throughout the United ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) After constant pressure from Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and other right-wing conservatives, the College Board kicked off Black History Month by stripping down its African American Studies Advanced Placement course. DeSantis and the MAGA crowd objected to the original draft because it was an American history from the perspective of the ...