(ThyBlackMan.com) “A decade ago, I watched poor and working-class families standing in long lines outside of check-cashing stores, waiting for the privilege of paying to cash their paychecks. I thought there had to be a better way.” – Russell Simmons wrote in an August article for The New York Daily ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In the 1800’s African Americans were in the congress of the United States. African Americans even owned slaves and/or indentured servants (no I am not bragging about that). By the 1920s we had Black Wallstreet, the most successful business community circulation of the dollar that has ever existed in ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Five liberal Democrat presidential candidates — one actually honest enough to label himself a socialist — appeared before the American public in their first debate. They made it apparent that the only variation between any of them was just how much bigger and how much faster each one wants ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The Democrat debate was nothing short of embarrassing, insulting, and dismissive of Black people. While the men did not wear the traditional red and blue ties, thank God, the two and a half hour rhetorical exercise was an in-your-face thumbing of the nose at Black voters. How much more ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) For everything there is a reason. There is a reason our people (African Americans) will not work together. There is a reason our people do not trust each other. There is a reason we play crabs in a basket, pulling each other down and betraying each other instead of ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Ebony Magazine stirred a mini-firestorm of rage when it dredged up an old photo shot of the TV Cosby show family, plopped it on its November cover, and then fractured the picture. The obvious point being that embattled comedian Bill Cosby not only disgraced his legacy but disgraced the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) African Americans have involuntary been elected to be the ambassadors of fried chicken. The stereotype of our love of the seasoned, crispy, and moist bird does hold some truth. Social media is flooded with clips of angry African Americans, throwing temper tantrums upon hearing their local Popeye’s is out ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Here’s my question to you: If an evil person is guaranteed that he can inflict physical pain upon others and guaranteed to never suffer pain himself, what happens to his willingness to inflict pain? You say, “What do you mean, Williams?” OK, I will make my question more concrete. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Old 1960s US Army buddy, acclaimed life coach and author Steve Chandler sent me a copy of his latest book, “Crazy Good.” In his book, Steve points out that embracing a victim mindset has extremely negative consequences; is not empowering and actually weakens you. The validity of Steve’s statement ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Why does it surprise anyone when chaos reigns in America’s inner cities when it just reflects the chaos now reigning in our whole country? I open my dictionary to the word “civilize” and I read: ” 1. to bring out of a condition of savagery or barbarism; to instruct ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Dr. Ben Carson, now second in most polls for the Republican presidential nomination, naturally finds himself under attack by threatened lefties. GQ published an anti-Carson article with the headline “F–k Ben Carson,” except it spelled out the f-word. Comic actor Seth Rogen tweeted “F–k you” to Carson. And a ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The night we brought home our baby boy from the adoption agency a few months ago, I made the sudden transition from being a woman who has never had a baby to being the mother of a toddler. No nine-month pregnancy followed by a few months of having a ...