(ThyBlackMan.com) The new political article of faith is that tea baggers are blatant or closet racists. MSNBC’s Keith Olberman, Meghan McCain, and Captain Marvel Comics Captain America and his black sidekick Falcon, are the latest to poke fun at and pick a fight with the tea baggers over their alleged serial ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Apparently passing legislation has now become as difficult as a military operation – as President Obama will announce a “way forward” on health care reform later this week. What this most likely means is that he will support the use of reconciliation (the political buzz word of the week) in ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) At some point during this Bush-Obama non-economy I just went on automatic pilot, like many others. Friends tease me about being a survivalist but it was just dress rehearsal for this calamity. While always knowing how empty rhetoric about opportunity and prosperity was in zip codes like mine, when the door slams ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Black superheroism is an “ism” I’ve practiced alongside many others. My brand is costume optional but focuses on exceptional characters and cultures within the Diaspora. Icons like Toussaint L’Ouverture and Paul Robeson join generational standards like “being twice as good to get half as much” and “give a brother ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Black folks and religion. The stuff of arguments galore. Wags like myself wonder what all the fuss is about? No less than Dr. King observed “11 o’clock Sunday ” is the most segregated time in America. This obtains among the country’s Black and White Christian majority. Against such a ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) University of California San Diego chancellor Marye Anne Fox, the president of Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity, UCSD student leaders, and a bevy of civil rights leaders, and black and minority California lawmakers leaped over each other to lambaste the now infamous Compton Cookout at UCSD as racially insulting, insensitive, and ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Everyone has a story about an ex. Whether it’s a year-long stalker tale that landed you both in the hospital, or a new found friendship that grew stronger. Dealing with ex’s can not only affect your past relationships with them, but it can also effect current and future relationships. Can ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) David Paterson has always been a political star, and he’s definitely a fighter. His stellar career landed him in the New York governor’s mansion after a long climb up the gritty landscape of New York politics. Being the first African-American governor of New York was impressive enough without adding the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I sat at my desk, as frozen as a block of ice, listening to one of the most heated conversations I’ve ever heard on the radio. Tavis Smiley and Rev. Al Sharpton were mad, and you could hear it in their voices. This wasn’t “radio mad,” where you pretend ...