(ThyBlackMan.com) I come from a tiny country, Congo Brazzaville, where by all appearances we have historically nothing to do with the United States: we were colonized by the French, and we speak French, not English. However I live in America, and when this country comes down with the flu, I ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Rudy Giuliani Former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani (R) is a confused man that is also chauvinistic on the first order. http://www.nyc.gov/html/records/rwg/html/bio.html Giuliani made an extremely controversial comment in his November 23rd appearance on Meet The Press. He stated that “white cops would not be needed in black neighborhoods ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The debate is sharp over whether the movie Selma got it right about Lyndon Johnson and his relationship with and to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. A counter argument challenges the film’s depiction of Johnson as at best wary of King and his mass street action campaigns in Selma ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) After a phenomenal election last November in which Republicans increased their margins in the House and took control of the Senate, the expectation was that congressional Republicans would prove to the country that they could lead like mature adults. But as the adage goes, “they never miss an opportunity ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) What a raucous, topsy-turvy, heart-wrenching, angry year we experienced in 2014. We had everything from the sadness of lives lost on airplanes and ferry boats, to the anger of Black men being killed and Black women being beaten by police officers, to the elation of a record-breaking stock market and ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) This past weekend, thousands of New York City police officers turned their backs on Mayor Bill de Blasio at the funeral of Officer Rafael Ramos at Christ Tabernacle in Glendale, New York. It is now widely known that Officer Ramos saw his work in the NYPD as his ministry. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The late, great comedian Richard Pryor had many sayings I found to be completely hilarious. Naturally, the vast majority of those sayings could not be printed in a family newspaper such as this one. There remains, however, one clean phrase of his I have laughed at repeatedly for decades. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead once said: “What a long, strange trip this has been.” Sony Pictures Entertainment hacked by cyber-terrorists. Stolen data. Wiped company hard drives. Private internal emails given to media outlets. Private messages, photographs, and contact data of some of America’s biggest movie stars made ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) One consistent piece of economic folklore has consistency hinged around the importance and value of owning your own home. This assessment, however, isn’t entirely incorrect, and it certainly deserves more thought. A recent article in the Wall Street Journal compares the saving/investing habits of the top 1% of Americans vs. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Writing has been a catharsis for me since my “angry days” in the late 1960’s and early 1970’s. I used to write “Last Poets” kind of stuff and just put it away afterwards. Writing was a release to lower the pressure in my mind about the state of our ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The vast majority of the wrongfully convicted who are exonerated through DNA evidence are people of color. The numbers don’t lie. At a time when the killing of innocent black men by police is causing many to question the fundamentals of America’s criminal justice system, we are reminded that ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Full disclosure: I’m no dittohead. I’ve listened to “The Rush Limbaugh Show” on the Excellence in Broadcasting Network (EIB) since the early 1990’s. I disagree with 99.997% of what Mr. Limbaugh says at any given time. His utter disgust of all things related to the Democratic Party is legendary. ...