(ThyBlackMan.com) During a recent event celebrating the work of a fantastic collective of African-American artists addressing ‘Afro-Futurism,’ I listened intently during the Q & A session that followed. All that I can say is “out of the mouths of babes” because the most poignant inquiry raised came from one of ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) One of the great joys of my life is teaching. I’m fortunate to teach classes on social justice at the University of Pennsylvania, one of the most respected schools in the country. Penn has a longstanding commitment to affirmative action, and I have seen first-hand how diversity in the ...
(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) The NAACP, National Action Network, the SCLC, 100 Black Men, the three different Black Lives Matters groups – are they outdated, playing games or simply about self? We see their Facebook pages. We here about their rallies. We hear about their golf tournaments, voter registration drives and block parties. We ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Once a tiny segment of our existence—a mere association with a group whose ideas align with ours on average—political parties have evolved from simple associations into our primary identities. They have absorbed our perspectives, entered our daily conversation, and permeated all forms of media. As more and more individuals ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) During this Supreme Court session, the justices will tackle affirmative action in two cases brought by “Students for Fair Admissions,” opposing affirmative action policies at Harvard University and the University of North Carolina. According to its website, this group represents “20,000 students, parents, and others who believe that racial ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Here comes our Former President House Negro Obama who got the entire vote of the African American population in 2008 to become the first Half Black/ Half white president in the history of the United States of America and in returned He gave absolutely Nothing! to the black men ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Ye, the artist formerly known as Kanye West, seized headlines over the past couple of weeks because of offensive behavior on social media that lead to social media bans, dropped collaborations, canceled contracts, and public outrage withal. It’s been a frenzied up and down all-around observation in recent days ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Those who follow my columns know I have been and am extremely critical of the Republican Party’s and the conservative movement’s continued “ghettoization of the Black voter.” For purposes of this column, I will use the terms Republican Party and conservative interchangeably. Even when Republicans try to do the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Any major political program in the new century should be evaluated by its ability to state the need for a new educational paradigm; one which establishes a constitutional guarantee to education, that de-institutionalizes knowledge and learning, and one which provides all who want to learn with access to learning ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The recent revelation of the racist rant, irrational reasoning and inequitable reordering of the political map of Los Angeles by a group of Latina/o city council and labor leaders offers useful insights and lessons in racial, racialized and racist sentiments, thought and practice in American politics, regardless of the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “No taxation without representation” is perhaps the most famous rallying cry in American history. The provenance of that slogan stretches back at least to December 1754, when Benjamin Franklin wrote the following in a letter to British army officer and politician William Shirley: “It is suppos’d an undoubted Right ...