(ThyBlackMan.com) Rev. Jesse Jackson and Rev. Al Sharpton were doing the right thing when attending the Ahmaud Arbery trial. They demonstrated the solidarity that the Black community has with each other when one of us appears to be lynched. Lynching has reverberations. Each of us, every Black person, is repulsed ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) A break-through is something that happens suddenly and changes the course of your life moving forward. Second Samuel 5:20 describes the experience thusly, “The Lord has burst through my enemies before me like a bursting flood…” Whether it is your health, finances, family job, a break-through is coming! But ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Actor Jussie Smollett finally gets his day in a Chicago courtroom. He is being charged with six counts of disorderly conduct. But the charges are an afterthought to the real charge. That is that even a celebrity Black man can be the victim of a racist hate crime. That’s ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The makeup of the United States population has changed over the centuries, and will continue to do so. But “a three way ethnic component was involved in the original basic ingredients of the formative American nation—white Englishmen, black Africans, and red Indians. The fact that nineteenth-century immigration added millions ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Slavery made perfect sense, so too did Jim Crow in its time, as does mass incarceration today. If it did not, we would long ago have ended it. Why haven’t we? According to Norbert Wiener, we “live in a chaotic moral universe,” wherein “our main obligation is to establish ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “The curse of poverty has no justification in our age. It is socially as cruel and blind as the practice of cannibalism at the dawn of civilization, when men ate each other because they had not yet learned to take food from the soil or to consume the abundant ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Growing in your home doesn’t have to be a cluttered, damp, unsightly affair. Nor does one need to build a state of the art production facility to achieve high quality, medicinal grade cannabis . Today we are able to grow lush healthy plants in a controlled environment, discreetly, and ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The first Gallup poll which measured church membership in 1937, resulted in 73 percent of adult Americans confirming they had some type of religious affiliation. While membership remained around 70 percent during the next six decades, those who claimed to have a church affiliation fell below 50 percent for ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I am sure that not a single African-American with at least a cursory understanding of the history of American race relations was surprised by the recent acquittal of white teenaged killer Kyle Rittenhouse. This latest reiteration of America’s Native Son proved that he could kill two civilians during a ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In part one of this series I asked readers to critically rethink what we have been told about the Sars-Cov-2 virus aka COVID-19 and ask some very cogent, pertinent and probing questions: is Sars-Cov-2 a natural occurrence, was it the result of gain of function research, did it accidentally ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) It is time America apologized for the crime of slavery, and President Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. is the man to do it. It is hard to believe that a simple, national apology for the 400-year-old crime of kidnapping, trafficking, selling, and enslaving millions of free Black women, men, and ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) There is no other way to put it. The overwhelming majority of Americans think Vice President Kamala Harris is doing a lousy job as vice president. So poor, that her rating in a recent USA Today/Suffolk poll bottomed out at 28 percent approval. This was a historic low. No ...