(ThyBlackMan.com) It is with a heavy heart that we heard Dick Gregory passed away from this earth on August 19, 2017. He was not merely a comedian. Dick Gregory was a fierce activist that was not afraid to call this country, and world, as he saw it. In his 84yrs he ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Both are sojourners in search of recognition, appreciation and a home; on both sides of the football! Just kidding. The NFL has been accused by many players of cruelly blacklisting Colin Kaepernick, a former quarterback for San Francisco 49ers, who knelt down in 2016 during the National Anthem. Kaepernick played a key ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In the past, I have metaphorically referred to America’s current body politic as a blue hand holding a red gun to our progressive heads. To be explicit, I’m referring to a situation in which the Democratic Party could rely on gaining the support of progressive people because the alternative selection ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Donald Trump once famously asked the African American community: “What do you have to lose?” We now have the answer. Everything. Is this the time to stand up and fight back? Clearly, the answer is “yes.” Poll numbers on Trump’s disastrous performance as President reveal rapidly shrinking support for him ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) People who profess to revere the Constitution really ought to spend time thinking through the significance of its provisions. They should read through and revisit occasionally the record of the debates at the Constitutional Convention. They should evaluate the arguments that were made, to think about how and whether they ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In 1927, one of California’s hot go-go real estate developers and entrepreneurs, Walter Leimert, had a brainstorm. He would buy land, parcel out tracts, and oversee the home building craze in a new subdivision to be called Leimert Park. Leimert had earlier developed home and commercial building projects in Northern ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The instances of racially charged domestic unrest we’ve witnessed in recent weeks have, for me, even further emphasized what craven, deceitful creatures those on the far left are. They really have come quite close to eliciting actual nausea as I’ve read of their exploits and heard the poisonous lies emanating ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) As we rewrite history and remove Confederate monuments deemed “offensive” when viewed through the prism of contemporary standards of morality, reasonable people ask: Where does one draw the line? The left, for example, reveres the Kennedy brothers, John, Robert and Edward. But if evaluated by today’s standards of social justice, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) ‘THE LORD SAY’S ‘ THE LEADERS OF MY PEOPLE ARE SURE TO BE JUDGED ..THEY WERE SUPPOSED TO WATCH OVER MY PEOPLE LIKE THE SHEPARD WATCH OVER THEIR SHEEP..BUT THEY ARE CAUSING MY PEOPLE TO BE DESTROYED AND SCATTERED’ …JEREMIAH..23.1 IT’S not unreasonable or naive to believe that when the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The history of housing in America is a history of discrimination. Even as people of color have made strides in countless other areas of American life, home ownership—and the intergenerational wealth that comes along with it—remains out of reach for far too many. Even Frederick Douglass, when buying his first ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) These days, their is a new and disturbing trend that’s been very common amongst a lot of black and white people on social media and it’s what I personally call social media/YouTube opportunists. Opportunism comes in all forms from parasitic to greedy and this mindset has psychologically poisoned the minds ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Cheers to New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu, one of the first mayors to take Confederate statues down and to make the strong point that these statues represent nothing but oppression. You should check out the speech he delivered, in May, at MarketWatch.com. More cheers to Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh who ...