(ThyBlackMan.com) The foremost blessing and the most prominent curse of being an African-American Studies Professor begin and end at the same source, my students. I have repeatedly stated on this site that I consider it a privilege to teach Black collegians for the past two decades. Considering the joy that ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) President Trump, King Solomon and I went to breakfast last night and he told me to share this Bible verse with you: Wisdom is the principal thing, therefore get wisdom; and with all thy getting, get understanding (Proverbs 4:7). Wisdom is simply knowledge gained through experience. Understanding is knowing when ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In response to my clarion call for citizens to push back against anti-Americanism and cultural assassins, https://bit.ly/2JGutQn several of you have asked how. Some believe the battle is already lost. Some think violent resistance is the only solution. I disagree with both mindsets. We are a Christian nation founded upon ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Inter-racial sexual liaisons have always been “the elephant in the room” during any discussion of America. Nonetheless, most Whites seek to avoid the topic as it serves as irrefutable evidence of their ancestor’s foremost shame. Black men deny the referenced incidents of inter-racial sex if for no other reason ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Every Fourth of July celebrates this nation’s founding. But this year, only a few days before the annual freedom celebration, an ill-advised governmental action financially doomed rather than freed millions of student loan borrowers – as of July 1. Moreover, this action arrives as the cost of higher education ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Getting fact-checked cuts two ways. It means the fact-checkers pay attention to what I say. It also means I should expect liberal bias from the checkers. In a recent appearance on Fox News, I made the following assertions: — Republicans did not own slaves. Democrats owned slaves; — Democrats ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) A criticism of former Vice President Joe Biden’s campaign for president is that, at age 76, he may be too old to be running for president. His record of success at reaching the pinnacle of politics has been wrought with past failures, and some believed the moment had passed ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) rolled out a plan to offer grants up to $25,000 to low-income black individuals to help with a down payment and closing costs on home purchases. At first glance, to the economically uninformed, this seems like it’s a good idea. We want as many people ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Donald has no chance of winning re-election in 2020 for the very same reason that I pointed out that Hillary Clinton was a “Democratic Disaster Waiting to Happen” 4 months prior to the 2016 election – because the people hated her. The voters didn’t know Donald Trump at the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) So they gave us a “black” president to pacify us and far too many of us quickly forgot the horrors, treachery and racist history of this country. As Mitch McConnell said, they consider that reparations. But all the while racism was still rearing its ugly head and far less ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Coming out of the first round of debates for the Democratic nomination for President, the defining messages of the upcoming campaign are beginning to take shape. The competing themes are revolution (big ideas), versus restoration (return to a traditional American presidency). The subtext is a generational battle although, unlike ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Instagram’s hashtag #Blackmensmiling beams with the faces of Black men in spite of a world against us. The demand to smile is implicit when entering public spaces to make White people feel safe and unthreatened. Not doing so jeopardizes our safety resulting in police calls—solely out of anxiety and fear—, aggression, ...