(ThyBlackMan.com) At first glance, the title “Black People Are Protesting the Wrong Way” is click-baity (reminiscent of a highly problematic piece published in CNN called ‘Lord of the Flies’ comes to Baltimore). It begs many questions about who is protesting (not just Black people), why they are protesting, and how ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) For the past fifty years most of our conversation and efforts have been centered on politics. Reminiscent of Reconstruction, when Blacks occupied political offices for the first time, many of our politicians are just figureheads, toothless tigers, and lackeys for the establishment. Many of them are simply “employed” and ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) We are starting to get into the 2016 election cycle already – after all, the 24 hour news cycle has to have something upon which to pontificate. Recent polls show that the top two issues concerning Americans are the economy/jobs and terrorism – which I classify as foreign policy/national ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Roses are red, the sky is blue… what time is it? It’s elephant time. We need to talk about the elephants in the room. So many mistakes, so little time. I’ll call this op-ed piece “Elephantine.” The word elephantine is an adjective – and is defined as “of, resembling, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) By the time you read this article millions of college students will have graduated and are now looking for jobs; many will be going on to grad school. Millions will suddenly be faced with paying off college loans or contemplating obtaining a loan for graduate studies. Where the money ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Hustlers and people with little understanding want us to believe that today’s black problems are the continuing result of a legacy of slavery, poverty and racial discrimination. The fact is that most of the social pathology seen in poor black neighborhoods is entirely new in black history. Let’s look ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I’ve gotten relatively few responses on the piece linked below. I would have thought people would have been falling all over one another to defend our cultural heritage, but I guess many Black people are not up to fighting for their culture. We only tend to REACT when something ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “I sincerely wish you could see what I’m seeing right now. As I’m writing this particular Op-Ed entry, I’m sitting on an Amtrak train – with the lush and scenic Northern Virginia countryside to my left and to my right. I wish you could hear what I’m listening to ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) If President Obama truly wanted to rid the world of Republicans, it would be very easy for him to do so. In fact, he could accomplish the feat within 60 seconds. All he would have to do is change parties. If Barack Hussein Obama actually joined the party of ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Two weeks ago, our First Lady, Michelle Obama seemed to have caused a hornet’s nest of controversy with her graduation speech to the students of Tuskegee University. She was the wrong messenger, with the wrong message, at the wrong place, at the wrong time. It was very difficult to ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In light of Professor Saida Grundy’s apology for speaking truth about white supremacy racism, I want to share this article below that I wrote about Mass Incarceration. (It’s just ONE of the tools used from the White Supremacy Racism’s box of “Hoaxing and Coaxing 101: The Key to Maintaining ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) 1. Rwandan former refugees welcome the durable solution of local integration in Zambia. They have consistently refused the durable solution of repatriation to Rwanda for their “well-founded fear of persecution.” The offer of local integration shows the Zambian government is listening to Rwandan refugees and acknowledges the same fear ...