(ThyBlackMan.com) I read a snippet in an old article in Essence Magazine indicating that researchers have uncovered new information suggesting that Cleopatra may not have been Black. The article brought back to mind a piece I read by Dr. Earl Ofari Hutchinson many years ago entitled, Whose Black History To Believe? In ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “Many of you have been in the room when the President has delivered speeches where he’s talked about his love for this country, or how the United States is a force for good in the world. In fact, it (the US) is the greatest force for good that the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) 1 There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens: 2 a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot, 3 a time to kill and a time to ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Bashing white America and stirring the pot of racial discord has become in vogue all year round. But every February, the usual suspects (race profiteers and America haters) use Black History Month to double down on their rhetoric. Their operatives who control our public schools lay guilt trips on ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “I always feel like somebody’s watching me And I have no privacy Whoa-oh, I always feel like somebody’s watching me Tell me is it just a dream? So goes the chorus of the 1984 R&B hit “Somebody’s Watching Me” by Rockwell – with an assist from Michael Jackson and ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Let’s get rid of Black History Month. I know. It sounds crazy — like something that you might hear at a Tea Party rally, or from a political pundit spouting some notion that minority people get special privileges, while ignoring white privilege. It’s a ludicrous idea, but let me ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “NBC Nightly News” anchor Brian Williams has finally admitted that he had incorrectly asserted that a helicopter he traveled aboard in 2002 while reporting on the Iraq War in 2003 was hit by a rocket-propelled grenade, forcing an emergency landing. “This was a bungled attempt by me to thank ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Whether it is in an inner city neighborhood across America, the Caribbean, in Europe or in a sprawling mass of people in an African or Brazilian urban area, millions of Black youth throughout the world are crying out for a better quality of life. They should always have a ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “There comes a time in the course of human events for persons who have been mistreated to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with those who mistreat them. In the interest of self-respect and to claim the respect of others, after a long train of abuses, such ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The crazy veteran who shot the American hero who boasted that he liked killing people, shot Chris Kyle because he knew Kyle was a war criminal like him. They called it PTSD because they can’t call it Suffering From Guilt Syndrome. Of course white supemacists find it heroic to ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Brother Boehner, you’ve done it again. This is another fine mess you’ve allowed the fringe members of your party to get you into. Congress’s recently extended invitation to Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu – the Prime Minister of Israel – to come and speak before a joint session of Congress for ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The best way to celebrate Black History Month is to make more Black history. Black History Month is now celebrated around the world. We are grateful for the visionary leadership of noted historian and scholar Carter G. Woodson for being the founder of what was known as Negro History ...