(ThyBlackMan.com) If Micah Xavier Johnson’s goal was to support people in Dallas who were protesting the fatal police shootings of Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge, La. and Philando Castile in Falcon Heights, Minn., he failed miserably. Not only did he not advance the cause by killing five law enforcement officers, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Even in this age of runaway emotions, there are still some people who want to know the facts. Nowhere are facts more important, or more lacking, than in what has been aptly called “The War on Cops,” the title of a devastating new book by Heather Mac Donald. Few, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) President Barack Obama and his first attorney general Eric Holder called for an honest conversation about race. Holder even called us “a nation of cowards” because we were unwilling to have a “national conversation” about race. The truth of the matter is there’s been more than a half-century of ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Many people visit church on a regular basis. They don’t visit because they feel they have to though – most people genuinely enjoy visiting, and know that there are a ton of benefits to be had from it. If you need a reminder of why visiting church is so ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In 2009 the US Census Bureau published a survey of commuting patterns. It showed that the average work commute is 25 minutes—that means that every day the nation’s 132 million commuters are spending the equivalent of over 6 years commuting. It’s a frustrating way to spend time, and commuting ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Whenever I go to social media sometimes, I see negropeans spewing dumb stuff towards educated intellectual black people like myself. Here are several reasons why you can never free a black person from a Negropean mindset. 1. Indoctrination – when they are at child age, they’re not truly educated ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I am quite confident that what I am about to write will prove to be quite controversial, but I implore my readers to please read carefully what I am about to write. I will preface this column with one of my favorite Bible verses, Proverbs 4:7: “Wisdom is the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) ABC News reports that “A majority of Americans disapprove of the FBI’s recommendation not to charge Hillary Clinton with a crime over her handling of email while secretary of state, and a similar number in a new ABC News/Washington Post poll say the issue leaves them worried about how ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) What happens when a nation has no conscience? Even as the country is grappling with the fact that two Black men were killed by White police officers within 48 hours of each other, so many people in positions of power have said little, if anything. As some were trying ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) If you watch films like Mad Men, you’ll know how cool it is to drink Scotch. But is it really the drink for you? Some like to drink scotch straight up. Some prefer it on the rocks. Some even like to add it to cocktails. Luckily, there’s a type ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In the political season, tensions are often high and conversations can be heated or even non-existent. But let’s consider the impact on your current workplace, your community, neighborhood, or wherever you find yourself stuck in a sticky situation where politics come up. Chances are in any of these situations, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I write about leadership all the time. Yet, in the last year or so I’ve had some people say that I don’t write enough about how to be a good leader, instead concentrating on pointing out bad leadership traits. It would be easy for me to counter that by ...