(ThyBlackMan.com) A week ago or so, Saturday Night Live celebrated its 40th season on NBC with a live show filled with many of its famous alums. Ah, yes… the Not-Ready-for-Prime-Time Players. One of my favorite recurring bits from SNL came courtesy of Chevy Chase – who at any given time ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) President Obama loves this country but he also has a balanced, honest and realistic view on the dirt this country has done and the bridges this country has burned. In the wake of personal insults and attacks made by former Mayor of New York City Rudy Giuliani against President ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) If the president’s policies are indicative of his love for America, let’s pray he begins hating our nation soon. When former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani said “I do not believe that the president loves America” at a dinner featuring Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker last week, my response ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) During the fifty year period from 1963 (“I have a dream!”) to 2013, Black people have been on a virtual economic treadmill. Our relative economic position has not changed; our unemployment rate has consistently been twice as high as the White unemployment rate, which was 5% for Whites and ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I am neither democrat nor republican. I vote for the most qualified person with the best plan and strategy to carry it out, regardless of what party he or she belongs to. I voted for President Obama both times but not just because of color. I am balanced, fair, ...
(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 ...