(ThyBlackMan.com) There are moments in life where things become so obvious that they are in a word, painful. Some time back, the African-American Library (the Edgar M. Gregory School in Houston, Texas) issued an invitation for me to address Malcolm X’s timeless speech, The Ballot or the Bullet. I graciously accepted ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Upon hearing that former President Barack Obama recently boasted that he had a scandal-free administration, my first thought after regaining my faculties was: How can I possibly cram all the evidence refuting this in a little bitty column? Then I read that what he actually said was, “We didn’t have ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I stopped attending the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), because it reminded me of “The Flintstones” and “The Jetsons”; Blacks were noticeably missing from both cartoons. There were no Blacks in the past (The Flintstones) and there were no Blacks in the future (The Jetsons). CPAC is the largest annual ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) A liberal-created failure that goes entirely ignored is the left’s harmful agenda for society’s most vulnerable people — the mentally ill. Eastern State Hospital, built in 1773 in Williamsburg, Virginia, was the first public hospital in America for the care and treatment of the mentally ill. Many more followed. Much ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The Black community wastes far too much time sharing recipes, and not nearly enough time sharing knowledge and wisdom. We’ve been trying the grits and gravy approach for 400 years now, and where has it gotten us? Yet, when I brought up the prospect of recognizing the need to use ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Suppose a white conservative Christian or a white conservative public figure said the following: “Poor black families can work hard 24 hours a day, seven days a week, for the next 300 years. They will never catch up to most middle and upper-middle income white families. This system is not ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Considering my occupation as an African-American Studies professor, frequent discussions over Pan-Africanism are to be expected. However, the assertion that Pan-Africanist issues have taken a prominent place in the forefront of my mind is not rhetoric as I have just emerged from a full week of lecturing about Marcus Garvey ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Democrats believe in democracy. As long as elections return Democratic majorities. Today the Democratic Party is going to court to avoid losing legislative districts. If only purely objective, independent judges draw the lines, all will be well. The Democrats’ concern for fairness is oddly convenient. While they controlled the government, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) We woke up the morning after the Douglas High School tragedy hearing that 95 percent of the American people support stronger background checks before one can buy guns. That sounds like a no brainer because only 4 percent of the people oppose these checks. That leads one to believe that ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) One cannot help but be riveted by the outstanding response from the young survivors of the carnage at in Parkland, Florida, and their absolute audacity in confronting both Florida legislators and the President with their frustration at the absence of common sense gun control. During a CNN Town Hall, student Cameron ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) According to a data series produced by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) Business Employment Dynamics (BED) – a primary source for information on the labor market – the rate of business (as well as) job creation in America has been on a steady decline. The number of jobs ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) According to an article that was recently published on activistpost.com, police in America kill people at an extremely high rate of 450x more than four decades of school shootings combined. Over the past few years more than 3,500 people have been killed by police than the 300+ school shootings that ...