(ThyBlackMan.com) Embattled Washington Wizards guard Gilbert Arenas will serve 3 months in a halfway house for bringing guns to his locker room to scare a teammate.Prosecutors recommended Arenas get three months in jail, but defense attorneys successfully argued that Arenas didn’t deserve time in jail for what he considered a prank. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) For generations all genres of fiction warned of apocalyptic destruction and despair. What if these works were really cautioning against a disastrous change in consciousness instead of physical events like war or disaster? In the wake of the latest healthcare debate opponents feel doom has arrived. Government once owned the bodies of ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In a historic vote, Democrats in Congress approved a plan to renovate the U.S. health care system. Yesterday, the U.S. House of Representatives, led by Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, passed an enormous, politically daring overhaul of the American health insurance and health care delivery system by a margin ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Anytime people have a hard time understanding something, the first thing they turn to is an easy label. In the case of people with strong voices, the easy label is “crazy.” I’ve heard it a lot over the years, and even more so over the past few months. I’ve ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steels is an Uncle Tom. Not because he’s a black man who chose to be down with the GOP. Being a Republican or a conservative does not – repeat, does not – automatically make an African-American a sell-out. An Uncle Tom is ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Black conservatives as a political class don’t actively oppose racism. Ditto our Republicans of all stripes. This markedly ethno-escapist vision joins fantasies of the ” Post racial America ” variety. Rednecks and sophisticated ( White ) supremacists haven’t been relegated to the ash bin of history. Too often Black conservatives outdo Plastic Man in contortions explaining ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Now we have the Coffee Party movement which I suppose is a liberal counterpart to the Tea Party that emerged in the Washington, D.C. area, led by Annabel Park, a documentary filmmaker, who was horrified by the ugly, menacing and anti-government spirit of the Tea Party crowd that emerged ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Recently, I read that 90 percent of men are happy with their appearance. Good for you, guys: You’ve got great self-esteem. However, I have a feeling this might be the reason for all those white socks with dark slacks. You know you look good, but do you look and ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) It should tell you something that Tiger Woods has picked the grandest venue in all of golf on which to stage his long anticipated comeback. No link, no hole or, opponent will be safe from Tiger’s force of freakish nature when it comes time for the Masters early next month, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The throng of angry whites jeered, catcalled, and spat out borderline racial insults at the small group of mostly black protesters. This wasn’t a march against Jim Crow in Montgomery, Birmingham, Jackson, Mississippi, or Cicero, The year wasn’t 1963. The charged racial confrontation happened on March 14, 2010 in the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) When I was a teenager, a police officer explained to me how the “War on Drugs” took place in his hometown. The officer candidly described how every policeman in the city knew what boats contained drugs and when those boats would arrive in the city’s major port. But he ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I know alot of Black conservatives. I agree with alot of Black conservative points. Some of my best friends are Black conservatives. Too bad I’m not one. Moving right along. Despite strong support for muzzling gorilla government; community policing; mutual aid institution building; anti-Abortion activism and the 2nd Amendment ...