(ThyBlackMan.com) With this Article I want to address the nation-wide seriousness of the Dead Beat Father Syndrome. This is a sickness that has destroyed generation after generation of young girls without any justice being given to these children. And yes it affects young boys as well, but boys have a stronger tolerance for ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Words like sissy and f** can often be heard in the black community to describe a man who falls outside the comparatively restrictive confounds of black male masculinity. However, why black men in particular focus on masculinity more than their other racial counterparts is often misunderstood. Two theories seek ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In a 2010 report titled, Lifting as we Climb: Women of Color, Wealth, and America’s Future, posted by Insight – Center for community and Economic Development, a startling and unbelievable statistic was cited. Written by Mariko Chang, Ph.D., with the help of Meizhu Lui, Director of the Closing the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) You can be somebody.. Every word in these blogs is written with the hope that you will read something that will spark something in you. I am trying to get you to see you. Because right now you are in a dark place, you are like a person in ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Last year, filmmaker Antoine Fuqua made statements shutting down anyone who somehow believed that Hollywood might be racist. These remarks may have been made and forgotten by those wo are hellbent on comfortable assimiliation, but I found myself disturbed by what I was hearing. According to Fuqua, the racism ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In this article I want to point out a serious problem in our country that goes virtually unspoken of in the mainstream American Conversation. And at this point this problem can literally be considered a ” Plague ” and that plague being Mental Illness. The National Institute of Mental ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) By now, the latest Hot 97 fiasco is already old news. The station’s annual Summer Jam occurred, stupidity ensued, Chuck D took to Twitter to express his disgust with Hot 97?s misrepresentation of Hip Hop, and the station’s morning hosts, Ebro and Rosenberg, proceeded to insult Chuck by questioning his position ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) You might ask and it would not be out of line what the heck is going on?! Well, for one thing this ailing economy as previously predicted is not being properly managed by the Obama administration (https://thyblackman.com/2014/01/14/tough-economic-times-aheadand-not-just-for-blacks/). Right now the economy looks like a patient who has gotten ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Fathers are important to their children; they define the relationships their children will have in life. The world renowned scholar, and African American activist, Malcolm X, notes; any man can make a baby with a woman, but a father is responsible for the growth and development of HIS children. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “Cry ‘Havoc,’ and let slip the dogs of war…” This phrase was written by William Shakespeare – and appears in Act 3, Scene 1, line 273 of his play, “Julius Caesar. “Cry ‘Havoc’ is the recurring mantra of the hawks. I’m not talking about the Atlanta Hawks of the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) With the recent passing of Actress, Poet and Civil Rights Activist Ruby Dee, the overall bar of excellence in the creative Black world has been reduced. Ruby Dee has passed away on the heels of Maya Angelou and I do not feel that our great persons of influence get ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) One day a white, female teacher will send a letter home telling you how smart or intelligent your child is. Then, she’ll call and tell you that there’s an opening at a nearby school for the gifted. Finally, she’ll send paperwork for you to sign in order to send ...