(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. ...
(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 ...