(ThyBlackMan.com) Rappers Lil Wayne, Jay-Z, Kanye West, “P” Diddy, 50 Cent, and hip-hop businessmen Russell Simmons, and Robert Johnson, just to name a few, are members of the 100 Million Dollar Club—Robert Johnson perhaps being the lone billionaire. The accomplishments that each has attained is remarkable; however, the means to ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In a recent interview movie director Quentin Tarantino’s perspective relative to usage of the N-word in his movies are arrogant and disdainful; however, it was Samuel Jackson who wanted Tarantino to use the denigrating term more than he did in the movie Django. Had it been left up to ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I was raised to be a Christian, but I never go to church, because even as a kid I couldn’t buy into talkin’ snakes. I wanted to believe it, because I was taught that if I didn’t the Bogey Man was gonna get me, but try as I might, the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) You may want to write this down because I don’t say it very often. Perhaps we should follow the shining example of the Republican Party in one very significant way. The Grand Old Party – formerly known as the “party of Lincoln” – abolished the sinister practice of slavery ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I happened to be informed of a ‘cute’ term recently. It’s called #adulting. Or, just ‘adulting’ for short. I Googled the term, and found that this term had been around since the mid-teens. In short, it means that our millennial generation young men and young women are to get ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Several years ago black actor and activist Danny Glover, presented Hollywood with a movie script about the Haitian General Toussaint Louverture, leader of the Black Jacobins and the Haitian Revolution that stunned the world but—Hollywood refused to back the film. The reason given: There were no white heroes! Hollywood’s ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) There once was a time when you could only go to White Women for certain “ lewd acts or services ” and they were known for certain behavior. Now, as Black Women, we are willing to prove that we are JUST as filthy as White Women. One of the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) As I watching television last night, the station continually showed these pictures of the person they said was Jesus. The thing that got me was that every picture they showed was a picture of a blond haired, blue eyed Jesus. This really began to play with my psyche a ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Where are the Black Churches, and where are all of the millions of dollars in tithes they’re collecting every Sunday going? Black preachers do a great job of giving inspirational speeches, and telling us to “forgive, forget, and put all of the atrocities committed against us in God’s Hands,” ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Receiving negativity from others is difficult to deal with. Being the object of constant ridicule can have a devastating effect on one’s self image and that of generations to follow. The situation shifts from outside attacks to self-inflicted harm rather quickly. As black women we must ask ourselves if we ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Me and a white friend of mine were having a conversation over lunch the other day. The topic was world peace. All he wanted was for past wrongs done to African Americans to be forgotten, and everyone to just get along. I explained to him that this isn’t the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “If there is no enemy within, the enemy outside cannot hurt you.” –African Proverb– Few topics of African-American bedlam have been as hush-hush and controversial as Black-on-Black Crime. We’ve discussed our hair, our bizarre dislike of each other. And thanks to Oprah, we have had a national debate about color consciousness ...