(ThyBlackMan.com) Admittedly, I’m not a fan of statistics. So, when I read information about young Black men, I wince at the criticism that follows. Thus, I placed myself in the role of a confident, albeit slightly exacerbated male, and wrote the following commentary, as a tribute to African-American men who don’t ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Panic was about to set in as I surveyed the soul food restaurant in search of my friend and mentor, the one man who could make sense when there was none, my rock, that greatest of ghetto philosophers, Cleophus Leroy Jones. He wasn’t at his corner booth where he could ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) On June 17, 2015, nine African Americans were shot and killed in a church in Charleston, South Carolina. Dylan Roof, a white male opened fire during a prayer meeting inside the historic black church, killing multiple people, including the pastor, in an assault that authorities later described as a hate ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) There are a few facts that we can’t get around. Our people are dying in the streets at the hands of civil servants. We don’t spend tax dollars to be killed. Compliance does not guarantee we will be treated fairly. Compliance doesn’t mean we will stay alive. We don’t have ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) There is a considerable trail of dead men that had (supposedly intimate) contact with President Obama, such as Donald Young, Larry Bland, and Nate Spencer. This conveniently kept his gay life style hidden from most of America, even though many in Chicago knew the truth about him. And wouldn’t you ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The almost daily reports of police killings of African-Americans and resulting community outrage have shined a light on persistent racism in the United States. Yet, in the first presidential debate, Donald Trump was asked what he would do to heal the racial divide and replied: “Bring back law and order.” ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In quick succession, an El Cajon police officer gunned down an alleged mentally challenged man, a Tulsa police officer gunned down a distressed motorist, a Charlotte, North Carolina officer gunned down an allegedly combative suspect, Pasadena, California police officers violently restrained a distressed man who allegedly became combative and he ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) A wise person will change their beliefs and ideology, when faced with new information. A foolish person refuses to verify new information, and will not change. After the end of the Ice Age, came Earth’s fifth extinction, after 11,000 BC. Following that, in 7200 BC, Yehovah restored life on Earth, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) INTRODUCTION. When I was still in refuge, All I heard was stories about how great Kigali was-atleast that is what everyone used to say. UNHCR officials when asking Rwandan refugees to voluntarily repatriate talked of how clean, serene and secure she was. Other Zambians who had visited Rwanda kept on ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) A coup is a sudden and violent, seizure of power from a government. On occasion it has also been called a putsch. A little more than two months ago there was such a violent attempt to overthrow the government in the nation of Turkey. I heard about and read of ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) With everything going on in the world we tend to fall for distractions that would take our eyes off the real issues of the day. Some of us are addicted to gossip, and entertainment in manner that is detrimental to movement. While the Presidential election campaign has turned into one ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Black people let’s have a serious discussion about the use of the word coon, and others like it. That term has been popping up a lot lately, and honestly I feel it is both out of context and hypocritical. Have we really gotten to a place whereby we shame each ...