(ThyBlackMan.com) Thanks to television, our perception of many careers can be skewed. While wildly entertaining, the lives of doctors, lawyers, police officers and political professionals have all gotten the TV treatment and the result has often been a glamorization of the profession. Scandal, one of primetime TV’s biggest hits, has ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Co-authored by Heather McCulloch, Director, Tax Alliance for Economic Mobility and Dedrick Asante-Muhammad, Senior Director of the NAACP Economic Department As we all make sure we have done what we need to do to comply with our complicated tax code, there is a serious debate concerning the future of ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “Who can I turn to, when nobody needs me? My heart wants to know, and so I must go where destiny leads me.” Listening to an old album by the Temptations, “In a Mellow Mood,” made me think about the political trick-bag Black folks are in now that Barack ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Upon hearing Hillary’s ad announcing that she is running for president, I thought, these despicable people (Democrats) have no shame. The substance of Hillary’s ad is same old, same old; standard Democrat low rent campaign tactics; class envy and victimhoodism. In her ad, Hillary Clinton says, “…the deck is still ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “I was dreamin’ when I wrote this Forgive me if it goes astray… But when I woke up this morning Could’ve sworn it was Judgment Day. The sky was all purple, There were people runnin’ everywhere Tryin’ to run from the destruction You know I didn’t even ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) President Obama shows great respect for Muslims and their holy days and even lectures us to do the same. And yet, a few days after another slaughter of Christians which Obama refused to acknowledge, Obama cavalierly chose the Christian high holy day of Easter to take yet another of ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In the immortal words of former British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, “to every man there comes a time when he is figuratively tapped on the shoulder and offered the chance to do a great and mighty work; unique to him and fitted to his talents; what a tragedy if ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) …… Recall the story about the cop who cursed out the Uber driver. Turns out the cop has had 12 complaints from the public in his 15 years on the force. The obvious question? What were those complaints? Were they all for just verbal, and not physical, abuse? We ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Four years ago Rahm Emmanuel walked away with almost all the black votes in his successful bid to become mayor of Chicago, thanks primarily to support from Barack Obama who could do no wrong in the eyes of many, if not most, black folks. Today Emmanuel has won reelection, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I don’t know what it’s like to have the benefits of white privilege, but I know all about what it’s like to live as a black man in America. Here’s what black privilege grants me: I check the tail lights and headlights of my car every day before I ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Is this recovery failing, is the question many knowledgeable people are asking? However, one month does not make a trend. No doubt, the upcoming April’s job report will be the most anticipated since these numbers have been published! If there is any hint that this recovery is failing, this ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Look at how myths, symbols, religion and power are intertwined. The ruler’s face is everywhere. Recall the stupendous statuary of the pharaohs, the massive carvings of the Romans and the Greeks and the statues of the European kings. They bore the faces of the rulers and the gods, and ...