(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 ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) It was after dark. I was taking a short cut to the convenience store through an alley. Ahead of me, a middle-aged white woman was walking down a side street and started to enter the alley. Upon realizing that I would be walking behind her, she made a quick ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In the theoretical practices of both games and economics, the term zero-sum is used to describe the mathematical representation of a situation in which a participant’s gain (or loss) of utility is exactly balanced by the losses (or gains) of the utility of all other participants. Currently, this model ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) As an author, entrepreneur, minister, father, teacher, freelance journalist, and an all around professional black man, this writer has seen firsthand the negative effects of racism and bigotry in Urban America. People like me are routinely labeled angry or militant when speaking out against the horror of inequality in ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In light of the recent Ferguson, Missouri, grand jury decision to not indict Officer Darren Wilson for killing Michael Brown, a common denominator associated with all other injustices African Americans face—including others also being unnecessarily killed at the hands of police officers—all across the American landscape was once again ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I’ve been racking my brain for years trying to figure out why black entertainers are expected to be great role models and leaders. It’s interesting that only within the black community does one who seeks “success” owe something back to the black community. I often wonder where this notion ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In all the media coverage of the riots in Ferguson, an annoying false premise has been allowed to stand as though it were an unquestionable truth. Talking heads on the left and right are saying while rioting is not the way, there is a need for change in America. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Last week, civil rights leader and political icon Marion Barry died and barely after he had taken his last breath, the media was besmirching his reputation. Marion Barry was a “true” civil rights icon, not one “appointed” by the media. A “true” icon or leader should be like a ...