(ThyBlackMan.com) “Since 1983, the respective wealth of Black and Latino families has plunged from $6,800 and $4,000 in 1983 to $1,700 and $2,000 in 2013. These figures exclude durable goods like automobiles and electronics, as these items depreciate quickly in value and do not hold the same liquidity, stability or appreciation ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) What President Trump dropped into the lap of the National Football League (NFL) was a destructive bomb which lined up some players against team owners, and polarized the league. Mr. Trump knew his racist bomb would break the league up into opposing factions because of the issue and the employee ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Paraphrasing my buddy, British playwright George Bernard Shaw, “The reasonable man adapts himself to the world, the unreasonable man adapts the world to himself; therefore, all progress is dependent upon the unreasonable man.” Jesus Christ was unreasonable enough to think that by challenging the social and class norms of his ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Who would have thought we’d live to see such a polarizing and pejorative figure as the current occupant of the White House as Donald J. Trump? While history tends to ceremonially rate modern presidents as endemic to the national cause, the judgment on America’s forty-fifth President appears to have been ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) President Donald Trump has a knack for diverting attention from his failures, often using race as the vehicle. So when Sen. John McCain came out against the cruel Graham-Cassidy Republican health care bill late Friday, guaranteeing its well-deserved crash, Trump went speeding down the racially divisive low road. At a ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) It is becoming increasingly harder to have educated civilized debate these days. People do not know how to agree to disagree anymore. Disagreeing makes you an enemy. You can’t even disagree a little bit. You must be all in or you better be ready to fight. Relationships that took lifetimes ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) November 18, 2017 is the date for the run-off for the electing of the new mayor. What we know for certain is the new mayor will be New Orleans first female mayor, and from the looks of things it will be a black woman. The first thing that caught my ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) October 13, 2017 Officer Marcus McNeil was shot and killed while on patrol. The incident took place in New Orleans East. Apparently when the accused began shooting he was also shot when the officers began firing. He was treated for his wounds and is being detained. This situation is heartbreaking ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Flipping through my TV channels, I stumbled upon the 2017 Congressional Black Caucus Annual Prayer Breakfast on The Word Network; the world’s largest black religious channel. This year’s theme was, “And Still I Rise”. Folks, I thought, “Oh my gosh, these people have no shame.” This breakfast was all about ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Jeremiah 22:1-3,4-5 The Message (MSG) “Walking Out on the Covenant of God” 22 1-3 God’s orders: “Go to the royal palace and deliver this Message. Say, ‘Listen to what God says, O King of Judah, you who sit on David’s throne—you and your officials and all the people who ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Recently, Waka Flocka Flame made come comments that may have shocked some people in our community, but the comments come as no surprise to me at all when he said, “Man, I’m not African”. Waka Flocka Flame isn’t the only rich paid house negro that’s made such degrading statement, last ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Oscar-winning producer Harvey Weinstein has been exposed as a sexual predator. Weinstein, a liberal Democrat, is implicated in one of the biggest sexual scandals in recent memory. More than two-dozen women – among them actresses Angelina Jolie, Gwyneth Paltrow and Rose McGowan – have made a number of harassment accusations ...