(ThyBlackMan.com) ~ Friday’s No Good on Easter Island Challenging Easter’s Errors will land me on the Island of Patmos. ~ When did we start favoring the convenient fables of our own design over the Grand Design and Word of God?!! The answer can be found most blatantly in the Christian ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) People do judge you by the words you speak. You may feel it to be unfair or biased, but there are some good reasons why people do. Read on to find out more. The words you use are much more powerful than most people realize. Lasting impressions are often ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In a recent interview with Newsone, Rev. Al Sharpton laid out some of his divides with black intellectuals. The Rev seems to feel that many in “blackademia” are not comfortable with his approach to politics, and that the divide is becoming more apparent as time goes on. During the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Here is a story about tragic loss and the struggle for meaning and renewal. One of my neighbors, John, would be described by some as a “man’s man”. He is in his late 40?s and stays active with adventure sports and playing a bit of guitar. He tends to stay ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The black political grapevine recently informed me that respected political strategist Donna Brazile plans to meet with Professor Cornel West at Princeton University. The meeting was apparently arranged in response to the “moral outrage” that West has expressed toward the Obama Administration over recent weeks. The disappointment came to ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) As the nation acknowledges Financial Literacy Month, 2011, it is more obvious to me than ever that what we are going through now is not a just an economic recession, but a global reset, and that financial literacy is so much more than a brochure or website. It became ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Forgotten in the furor over Orange County GOP Central Committee Member Marilyn Davenport’s vile, vicious, and blatantly racist depiction of President Obama and his family as chimps is the reason that she did it. The caption underneath the photo read, “Now you know why no birth certificate.” The timing ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Black academicians are having coronaries about the book “Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention.” Compiled by renowned Black historian Manning Marable, the book is a hot seller. Marable worked on the book for 20 years and died just before its publication last week. Among records Marable used were Malcolm’s ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Behaving in a way that is different from how we actually feel can be very stressful, both physically and emotionally. Human beings seem to be unique within the animal kingdom regarding how much time we spend masking our true emotions and thoughts. This need to “fake it” can be ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) My entire life, I’ve seen the costs and consequences of parents who don’t want to pay to take care of their own kids. My father abandoned me when I was child, and to my knowledge, paid zero or close to no child support. Over the years, I had two ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) One of the most frustrating things to deal with as a Black man is listening to Black women talk about what a “real man” is supposed to be or do. In fact, a group of us jokingly search for the “Book of Real Man” that these women must have ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The NBA Playoffs started this past week, and I have to tell you, the excitment doesn’t match March Madness by any stretch of the imagination. At least, not yet. But the more troubling aspects of the NBA playoffs are the manifestations of league president, David Sterns, attempt to “manage” ...