(ThyBlackMan.com) There are many memories of my first years in school which remain etched in my mind. I remember learning the “Pledge of Allegiance” and the national anthem. Since I have always liked history, there are numerous persons and events that are in my memory cells. Like most students of ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Although I have familial ties to Memphis, Tennessee, on my mother’s side, the moment I heard about the brutal beating of Tyre Nichols, I knew that such facts mattered little in analyzing this senseless tragedy. Ironically, my new home, Houston, trumps my connection to Memphis; let me explain. When ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Let me start off by saying my prayers go out to the family of a young man killed by 5 black cops. I will not say much about y background in carrying a badge, as a training instructor and supervisor, but to say that I understand both sides of ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Many African Americans feel like there has been an unofficial war declared on Blacks, especially young Black males. Just in the past few years, there have been the police murders of Eric Garner (Staten Island, N.Y.), Ezell Ford (Los Angeles, and Michael Brown (Ferguson, Mo.) and the list goes ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Black slavery never ended, it just took root in the minds of black Americans. Roots that would continue to cause black people to stay divided, make excuses, sabotage themselves, abort their unborn children, allow the oppressor to define them, blame everybody else, always struggle, need help from the government, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Let me start off first by saying: “Crime in Black America has a direct co-relation and it is very proportionate to poverty, unemployment, lack of education and the most important of all “Fatherless homes”. Yes, the aforementioned are the reason why every democratic control city and state were the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) There is no way one can put a price on the value of a child’s education. Dr. Martin Luther King said, “Philanthropy is commendable, but it must not cause the philanthropist to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice which make philanthropy necessary.” Dr. King’s words remind us that we ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) It is very difficult for me to understand how inefficient the knowledge base of a sizeable corpus of individuals in the generations after mine have, as it pertains to history. No more astonishing a content area is this evident is with regards to American political history, in particular history of ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Sir Winston Churchill, former British Prime Minister during World War II, once told me, “To every man there comes a time in his life when he is figuratively tapped on the shoulder and offered the chance to do a great and mighty work; unique to him and fitted to ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) First off, let me say I am neither a Democrat nor a Republic. I vote for the most qualified person who also represents my values, beliefs and ideals the closest. And if neither the Democratic nor Republican party existed, everybody would be free to do the same. Nevertheless here ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) What does restaurant food and mainstream media have in common? Well read on and allow me to show you……. You wouldn’t trust just any stranger to cook you up a meal if you really didn’t know who they were and what they were all about now would you? You ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Today many of you trust your doctor as the key and often unquestioned authority to your health. Try door number two. Because what if he or she is not? What if your health is not your doctor’s top priority? Point of fact, realistically it isn’t. Your body was fearfully ...