(ThyBlackMan.com) WE ARE NOT BLACK. Black is the color of my car tires. I am brown and African American. f you believe in creation, the Garden of Eden was the beginning for all of us – and it was in a place where people of color dwelled. It was not ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “Liz, you’re fired,” Trump roared not to hundreds but thousands who attended a rally recently in Casper, Wyoming. He was lambasting GOP congresswoman Liz Cheney, one of his most vociferous GOP critics. She almost certainly was doomed to lose her seat to a Trump-backed challenger in the GOP primary. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) We are the solution to our problems, not the government that was supposed to be “of the people“. Not the government entitlement handouts such as WIC, food stamps, Section 8 housing or welfare. Not law enforcement when black on black crime is rampant. We should be policing our own ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I love my city more than any place in the world. New Orleans is magic, wonder, the past, and the future all melded into one space. There is an energy in this place that is unlike anywhere else. I pray the people continue to fight for our home, and ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) We have seen the images floating through our media before. A woman’s physical superiority over any given man to demonstrate the perception of a woman’s physical dominance (if only they are determined or skilled enough). This exhibition is typically promoted in our media to enforce themes of women’s empowerment, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Why are we afraid of racists? Racist people have no or little effect on me. In the book “Tribalism” points out what will bring us out of misery. In “It’s OK to Leave the Plantation,” I illustrate the only way out for us. The idea that black folks must ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) (***) “Fate will do what it wills,” says The Elder. But what happens when fate turns out to be a series of unpredictable and ultra-violent events aboard the world’s fastest train? The basis for this cutthroat railroad trip is a book by the very popular Japanese novelist Kôtarô Isaka. Hence the setting and situation. Ladybug (Brad ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) There are numerous books, journals, articles, and theories that speak of the economic woes of African Americans and the means to overcome them. There is an emergence of self-help manuals created by African Americans that provide step-by-step guidance to achieve economic prosperity. Though I applaud the effort of these ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Be as separate as the fingers in the things that are individual to you but in things common to us all as a people, we must join those fingers as a fist under one God, one aim, one destiny. ~ Booker T. Washington Preceding the Hip-hop era African Americans ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) If our people are to survive and thrive for generations to come, each of us must take a positive and proactive role to insure that survival. As African Americans, each of us has the responsibility to preserve, protect, unify, uplift and increase the population of our people. and only ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Ghostface Killah of the WuTang Klan made a song on his first solo album called ‘Motherless Child.’ Although not the original, it used a sample from a version recorded by O.V. Wright’s “?Motherless Child” which was taken from an old Negro spiritual from the times of slavery. The way ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) None of us want to feel inferior. And as a whole, our people are not inferior to any other race, ethnic group or nationality. BUT TOO MANY OF US ACT LIKE WE ARE. Too many of our people are easily influenced in the wrong direction – packing thee jails, ...