(ThyBlackMan.com) Feminists claim that women should take more control of their lives, arguing that women are capable of making decisions about their lives and what is in their best interest without guidance from a man. But White feminists and “strong Black women” are curiously absent when it comes to defending ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In order for us to operate in faith, we must understand two primary things about faith: (1) Faith is spiritual and (2) Faith must be applied. Faith is spiritual. Things are more real in the spirit realm than in this realm where we see, hear, smell, taste and touch. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Accounting is the language of business, so when you’re looking to pursue a career in the business field, what’s more essential to learn than accounting basics? There are, of course, platforms that incorporate a basic accounting system for small businesses, such as Shopify, but assuming you didn’t have that ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) One of the most beautiful things about this country is the first amendment. As a writer that statement is cliche, but in times of national crisis, outcry, and struggle it rings true. Congress shall make no law no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “In the fell clutch of circumstance I have not winced nor cried aloud. Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody, but unbowed.” Those words are from the second stanza of the William Ernest Henley poem “Invictus.” Mr. Henley – a noted Victorian English poet – wrote this ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) There is probably nothing more culturally or psychologically annihilating within the black community than the scourge of skin bleaching (aka skin whitening). Its growing popularity is proof positive that many black people have replaced the anthem “I’m black and I’m proud” with “I’m a loser baby, so why don’t ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Chicago Bulls guard Derrick Rose made one heck of a public statement by showing up to a game wearing a t-shirt with the words, “I can’t breathe” on it before a Saturday game against the Golden State Warriors. The shirt was a tribute to the late Eric Garner, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) It was after dark. I was taking a short cut to the convenience store through an alley. Ahead of me, a middle-aged white woman was walking down a side street and started to enter the alley. Upon realizing that I would be walking behind her, she made a quick ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In the theoretical practices of both games and economics, the term zero-sum is used to describe the mathematical representation of a situation in which a participant’s gain (or loss) of utility is exactly balanced by the losses (or gains) of the utility of all other participants. Currently, this model ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) If your life is anything like my own, you know that both success and failure each carry their own set of challenges and opportunities. Being black only serves to compound these issues, because African Americans have an economic history that is littered with the symptoms of severe, long-term racial ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) As an author, entrepreneur, minister, father, teacher, freelance journalist, and an all around professional black man, this writer has seen firsthand the negative effects of racism and bigotry in Urban America. People like me are routinely labeled angry or militant when speaking out against the horror of inequality in ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In light of the recent Ferguson, Missouri, grand jury decision to not indict Officer Darren Wilson for killing Michael Brown, a common denominator associated with all other injustices African Americans face—including others also being unnecessarily killed at the hands of police officers—all across the American landscape was once again ...