(ThyBlackMan.com) In a shocking new revelation, Al-Qaeda has confirmed the death of Osama bin Laden. In a statement released on the group’s forums, the organization gave praise to bin Laden, and also threatened action against the United States and their allies. Finally, they encouraged Pakistani citizens to “rise up ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Just when you thought they were “piling on” President Barack Obama on issues of little or no consequence…namely the birth certificate issue, the reversal of the President’s fortunes continue to show why he won the presidential election of 2008. He’s just flat out smarter than they are and he ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Of course all the talk this week has been of the killing of Osama bin Laden in Pakistan by the elite Navy SEAL Team 6. I was hoping, at least in the U.S., that this event would allow America to come together, if only for a moment, and reflect ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Osama bin Laden has been captured and killed. This information shot across my computer screen while I was working on transcribing a recent interview. At first I thought, okaaay, this is some kind of spam or joke. But when the following message indicated that the President would be addressing ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) With the killing of Osama Bin Laden, a collective sigh of relief can be heard from the Black neighborhoods of Los Angeles and Detroit to the Muslim communities of Harlem and downtown Manhattan – not necessarily because a terrorist attack was feared in these locales – but rather because ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) On August 28, 2008 Barack Obama accepted the Democratic nomination for president exactly 45 years to the day from Martin Luther King’s “I Have A Dream” speech. The Civil War and the Civil Rights Movement ended exactly 100 years apart, in 1865 and 1965 respectively. The most important speech ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) It seems that some Black people have suddenly become one issue voters. I’ve been voting for a lot of years, and I have seen Black people vote for the lesser of two evils without complaining. I’m from Louisiana, so much of my life the lesser of two evils was ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) On Sunday evening, in the minutes after the official announcement of Bin Laden’s death at the hands of American Special Forces, I began receiving two kinds of phone calls. One genre came from my media junkie friends, ever eager to gab about the social significance of any news considered ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Everything has its opposite. Black has white. Night has day. Hard, soft. Hot, cold. If there was a Martin Luther King Jr., there had to be a Malcolm X. Martin Luther King, history remembers. Malcolm X, history tries to forget. But each man in his own way dominated the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Hours before President Barack Obama announced that Osama Bin Laden was dead I was, by weird coincidence, in Memphis, Tennessee, early Sunday evening, May 1st. I had just been driven there after delivering a commencement address at Lane College in Jackson, about two hours east of that great music ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Would-be GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump wasted no time eagerly snatching at another silly, deliberately distracting, media grabbing attention issue, when his crusade to get President Obama to release his birth certificate came to a quick end on April 27. The issue now is Obama’s alleged mediocre academic performance. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) It is not enough to be a community who can claim one or two exceptional individuals… Recent attacks against President Barack Obama regarding his place of birth and academic credentials have one very important outcome: It clearly puts everyone on notice that old-fashioned bias and naked racism are alive ...