(ThyBlackMan.com) Christopher Dorner is a canvas onto which we can project our national anxieties and obsessions. Christopher Dorner is racialized as an African American. He is gendered as a male. Christopher Dorner represents authority, conformity, and State power, as a (former) police officer. Those identities are intersectional. For some, Christopher ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Since the shooting death of 15-year old honor student Hadiya Pendleton, millions of black and brown eyeballs have turned toward the White House, wondering if there is a racial disparity between our beloved president’s reaction to the deaths of white vs. black children. Millions saw the president cry in ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Just imagine someone in your family travelling half way across the country to help a family they don’t know nor have any connection to; while at the same time his own family is in crisis. Just imagine how you would feel if your family barely had food to eat, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Some people believe that President Barack Obama has done nothing for the African American community and that he just flat out ignores his own people. But the other side of the argument is that we as a people have become too dependent upon our commander in chief. Now before ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) As a people, in particular a nation – we some dumb folk. I really wanted to use another word that conjoins a female parent with the act of copulation, but that is beside the point. I know I have been harping on the inadequacy of the general populous in ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Dr. Milton Friedman, as one of the pre-eminent fiscal conservatives of the 20th century, was perhaps also one of the most eloquent voices in support of libertarian values as moral values. Alongside Dr. Walter Williams, Dr. Thomas Sowell, and others, Friedman opposed programs like affirmative action, minimum wage laws, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always gotten.” If eight years have passed and you are looking at the same skyline and infrastructure, surely it’s time you looked at the people you have as mayor, member of Congress and city and or ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I remember being in 11th grade and seeing two young girls get into a fight with one another. This was no ordinary fight, since the two girls had once been inseparable. When you saw one, you saw the other. Then, for whatever reason, a boy came between the two ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) As a teen in the 1960s, I idolized Jim, my slightly older street smart cousin who lived in a tough area of Baltimore. Murders were common at the bar on the corner from his home. I was Jim’s nerdy naïve preacher’s kid cousin who visited from suburbia. Sleepovers at ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) When I think of Mali, or any part of West Africa, I often say to myself, I had a ball when I was there in 1992 and 1993. At the time I was living in Owerri, in Southeastern Nigeria. And if you have ever seen the Sahel, what sticks ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I have always said to my closets folk that the problem with America, in particularly Black America is that we do know or understand that there is a difference from education and schooling: that there is a chasm between being educated and being schooled. Although my folk get it ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) read recently that Rev. Al Sharpton and other individuals in the civil rights community are gathering this week to discuss a black agenda. I haven’t spoken to Rev. Al Sharpton for over a year now, after it became clear that he and I do not see President Barack Obama in ...