(ThyBlackMan.com) Mary and I just arrived home to Florida after campaigning around the country most of the year for conservative candidates. Our pet/house sitter did an excellent job keeping our animals (greyhound, three cats and three birds) happy and our home in order. A large tree in our backyard died ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Any objective assessment of the Black community’s current predicament will clearly show that Black suffering is a direct result of two things: First, many of us in the Black community have a pronounced tendency to follow self-serving poverty pimps and fools instead of thinking for ourselves, following truth wherever it ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The tragic deaths of New York Police Department Officers Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu were painful for nearly all of us. I feel an even greater sadness than most because my own father was on the police force in my hometown of Louisville, KY for over 25 years. As ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Tennessee Williams said, “The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that is also a hypocrite.” I could not agree more, especially as it relates to what is currently underway in my hometown under the auspices of the NAACP. Collusion, dishonesty, inequity, intimidation and, yes, hypocrisy abound ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) During the lead up to the Iraq war Republicans continuously used the word “Al Qaeda” to make people scared and look to the Bush Administration for protection. And it worked. The Department of Homeland Security was created, America invaded Iraq and The Patriot Act overwhelmingly passed. The word “Middle Class” ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Unity – Daily for generations our families and the families before us have been individually affected by pain. Those pains have all derived from racism and as a result, betrayal, distrust; hate within the same race mixed with negative media has prevented us from coming together supporting each one ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The statement “black lives matter” underscores a theological belief that all life is sacred. Unfortunately the black community, and society as a whole, has been placed squarely in the jaws of a moral vice grip; in the aftermath of Treyvon Martin, Michael Brown and Eric Garner decisions how do ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) On September 6th, 2006, here is what President George W. Bush said on the subject of torture: “I want to be absolutely clear with our people and the world: The United States does not torture. It’s against our laws, and it’s against our values. I have not authorized it, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) During the last few weeks I have been back and forth to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and let me start by saying ” Black People , Get Out!!!! Stay Out of Pittsburgh.” With that being said, let’s get on with today’s topic. Many who know me personally know that I do ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Today is “Black Lives Matter Day” in the state of Georgia. African Methodist Episcopal Bishop – Reverend John R. Bryant of the Sixth Episcopal District of the A.M.E. Church – made that declaration. American lives matter. Human lives matter. But all Americans aren’t subject to racial profiling. All human ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) As the end of another tumultuous year approaches, Black people again find ourselves in the relative same economic and political position as we were the year before, and the years preceding. In 2007, leading up to 2008, when the ultimate level of political history had finally come to fruition, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “In the fell clutch of circumstance I have not winced nor cried aloud. Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody, but unbowed.” Those words are from the second stanza of the William Ernest Henley poem “Invictus.” Mr. Henley – a noted Victorian English poet – wrote this ...