(ThyBlackMan.com) The devastating price of government dependency. I witnessed it up close and personal in the late 50s when I was a child. Both of my mom’s sisters had five kids each by various men who simply deposited their seed and moved on. Thus, both of my aunts were totally ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I’m the best (or perhaps the worst?!!) hypocrite I know. Perhaps this is so because I intimately know the intentions of my heart and the stances my mind better than anyone else. As such, when I have a change of heart about a particular subject matter, this knowledge jumps ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) e 2005, the breakup of Destiny’s Child has offered varied careers for the three group members. Michelle Williams released a couple albums (in 2004, and 2008 respectively) and recently starred in Chicago at the Cambridge Theater. Beyonce has become arguably the biggest pop star globally, released number one albums, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Former presidential candidate, Herman Cain, proved that despite a load of God given talent, he was unable to be a serious contender for the highest office in the land. In the immortal words of former British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, “to every man there comes a time when he ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) T.J. Holmes, the affable CNN weekend anchor who told colleagues on Sunday he was leaving the network at the end of the year, is heading for Black Entertainment Television, according to a source familiar with Holmes’ situation. BET plans to build a show around T.J. Holmes, 34, the source ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) As a 19-year-old Georgia State University student, I became a member of my fraternity’s pledge club. As a pledge, I was beaten unmercifully, ridiculed, taunted and more as was the tradition in a variety of campus groups. Once I crossed “the burning sands,” so to speak, and became a ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “Be a good girl for Mommy” was the last thing she heard her mother say. She saw him approaching her, and she looked at her mother in confusion, then in fear as he took her in the bedroom. “Mommy HELP ME!” “Be a good girl for Mommy” is what ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Some people may say I am a thick sista or a big boned sista or the ignorant ones just call you the F-word and we all know what it means and of course, it pisses me off. I don’t consider myself any of those things even if I have ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) How can Ron Paul, who counts among his supporters a sizable group of people who hope that his first act as president will be to reveal that the 9/11 attacks were an inside job, continue to draw significant poll numbers among Republican primary voters? American conservatives evade this question ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I am riddled with paranoid conceit… at least I think I am. Rather, I am a devoted husband who is in love with his wife and is overly cautious about other women approaching me. As such, I treat every other woman I encounter that is not directly related to ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Quality education is one of the most important factors in determining one’s future prosperity and destiny. But for Black American parents and students the issue will affect not only our overall quality of life, but also will determine how we will achieve to the fullest extent actual freedom, justice, equality ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Dear Mr. Tyler Perry, When fall television line-ups were announced by both broadcast and cable networks there were only two shows I was really excited about seeing: BET’s Reed Between the Lines and TBS’s For Better or Worse. Last Friday your latest TBS offering premiered. After watching both episodes ...