(ThyBlackMan.com) The year 2015 brought tectonic changes in several areas of our lives that the media has totally ignored or under-reported. Too often media, both left and right, only talk to people who view the world from the same prism as they do. The same argument can be made about ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Okay, I will say it out loud. Far too many Hollywood celebs are self-aggrandizing idiots when it comes to politics and culture. Their worldview makes them feel superior to the rest us. Neither facts nor common sense will change their minds. Ronald Reagan nailed it when he said, “It ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) So I was having a conversation the other day with a relative who was visiting this area for the holidays. To say that this relative cannot stand President Obama would be a vast understatement. Typically, it’s very easy for me to avoid the gravitational pull into the political rabbit ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I’ve always been intrigued with the symbolism used to depict change from one year to another. It’s interesting to see my 365 days through a year represented by a decrepit old man who’d been a baby just 365 days before! I’m more amazed that the symbolism hasn’t changed and ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Again, this is not an attempt to proselytize or to shape your thinking regarding religion or spirituality. Rather, this is an attempt to delve into a subject that is often brought up among Black folks and used to separate us instead of bring us together around practical economic/public policy ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Is it possible to have a Black consciousness and be a Christian? Are the terms contradictory? Is “Conscious Christian” an oxymoron? I can hear some of you now, saying, “Uh oh, Jim, you are in deep water with this topic.” That’s fine; this column has not survived for nearly ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The events surrounding and leading up to Black Lives Matter, Chi-Raq and the black incarceration crisis together constitute the most serious racial civil rights struggle since the 1960s. Examples of rap tracks addressing these crises abound, but no artist has singularly assumed the mantle of the struggle and become ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Since 2015 began, many police killings have taken place in various parts of the United States. The killings have stirred raw emotions from both Whites and African Americans, given that Blacks were killed at an astronomically disproportionate rate. Notable among the cases in question was the killing of Mike ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Early last summer during a WTF podcast interview by Marc Maron, to illustrate a point he was making about racism, President Obama dropped the incendiary n-word (n**ger). As a result of the Charleston church killings, Obama was compelled to address the issue of racism; unfortunately, a maelstrom over his ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In politics, 2015 was the year of insults for those seeking the Republican nomination for president. And Donald Trump was the undisputed Insulter-in-Chief. Among his numerous lowlights: Trump insulted former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina’s appearance by saying: “Look at that face! Would anyone vote for that? I mean, she’s ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) How shall we remember 2015? Or shall we try to forget it? It is always hard to know when a turning point has been reached, and usually it is long afterwards before we recognize it. However, if 2015 has been a turning point, it may well have marked a ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia ran headlong into the leftist meat grinder by questioning whether college admission of blacks with academic achievement levels significantly lower than the rest of the student body is beneficial to blacks. His question came up during oral arguments in Fisher v. University of Texas, ...