(ThyBlackMan.com) Have you noticed? The exact minute that the shooting in Uvalde took place the “MEME-ers” came out in full force. Instagram, Twitter, Tik-Tok, Snapchat and even that platform for old people: Facebook had feeds that became chock full of graphic images with in your face “facts” that “settled” the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Racism is a longstanding social illness in the United States of America. Seemingly, there is no cure for it. It has been with us for as long as I can remember. The result of it has created heartache and heartbreak. Lives have been lost and it has left the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I was watching a press conference after an NBA playoff game. The losing coach approached the microphone. As he started talking about what went wrong, he began to cry. He discussed what he could have done better and what happens moving forward. In fact, when I look back on ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “Once again, so-called pro-life pundits and politicians responded by pontificating about all of the possible causes of the shooting tragedy, like mental illness, while willfully ignoring the role of white supremacy and easy access to firearms … while every peer nation is home to men who have been radicalized, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) My wife and I wept last night over this latest in a series of school shootings. We have an 8-year-old grandson who attends school nearby in San Antonio. We live a thousand miles away or we’d have been hugging the little guy last night. I couldn’t get enough of ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Well! Here we go again. Your space Cadet President Biden and Happy Feet Karmala Harris have push forward the bill to give over $40 billion dollars in Aid to the European Country of Ukraine which is mostly a country of racist Nazi supporting white people and like always, the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) There are still aftershocks from the May 14th mass shooting in Buffalo, New York, by suspected killer Payton Gendron, who chose a supermarket named Tops Friendly on Jefferson Avenue in East Buffalo, to carry out his disgusting act. Tops is located in a lower-income Black neighborhood in Buffalo. Gendron ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) A public crisis has a way of revealing the best and the worst sides of people when it comes to helping others. A prime example is the Flint water crisis. In 2014, an ill-fated decision to switch the city’s water source for cost savings resulted in high lead levels ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) There are three numbers I’d like you to keep track of as you read this column: 11.3 million, 6 million and 1.6 million. The 11.3 million is the number of job openings in this county. The 6 million is the number of unemployed in the United States, and the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Brother Malcolm X, though not with us physically, is still strongly connected spiritually and psychologically, to serious Black folks. As we celebrate on May 19 his 97th birthday, we remember him having a blend of intelligence, vision, talent, self-confidence, persistence and boldness. In a 1992 column celebrating his 67th ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) What’s almost as terrifying as the targeted murder of 11 African Americans in Buffalo by the alleged shooter Payton Gendron, is his age and the motive behind the mass racial murder. Gendron is only eighteen years old. So young, but yet so imbued with every hodge-podge crackpot racist, hate-filled ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Former President Donald Trump remains the GOP front-runner in the next presidential election, but many have expressed they are amenable to another candidate if former-President Trump does not decide to run. Throughout President Trump’s four years in office, many supported him; as a member of the media, I was ...