(ThyBlackMan.com) “Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive!” This famous quote is from the Scottish author and novelist, Walter Scott’s epic novel, Marmion (published in 1808). This is a very appropriate quote in response to the editorial Virginia senator, Jim Webb had published in ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (father of the former Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court with the same name) once stated, “A mind that is stretched to a new idea never returns to its original dimensions.” I think the sooner African leaders come to understand this, the better off ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) With the mainstream media focusing on the one-year anniversary of the Charlottesville riots of last year, many news organizations are basically blaming President Trump for stoking the hatred and racial tension that led to the violence in that small college town, because of his coarse rhetoric on immigration and the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) is the new civil rights! No, not in the historic sense that the civil rights movement of the nineteen sixties ushered in a wave of new laws that made sure that Blacks were treated equal to whites as the U.S. Constitution had already guaranteed; ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Growing up as a kid in St. Louis, I remember watching the old Frankenstein movies. Of course, the movie was in black and white and was watched on a TV with rabbit ears. You millennials need to google that. Frankenstein was a horror movie and was very frightening. It ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) It is a common saying in the U.S. that slavery was America’s original sin. Few people will disagree with that statement. The Civil Rights movement was America’s attempt to address the issue of slavery and the racism that led to it. Last week, January 15, I spent two hours ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) When thinking about the continent of Africa and the upcoming opening of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York City, I was reminded of the famous opening to Charles Dickens’ novel, A Tale of Two Cities. “It was the best of times, it was the worst of ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) For those who are fortunate enough to have never heard of Tezlyn Figaro, you should thank God for your blessings. She is everything that is wrong with today’s radical liberal feminist Black woman of today. If she is the future of Black women, then you can expect most of ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Republican presidential candidate, Vivek Ramaswamy, should immediately drop out of his longshot bid to win the Republican nomination and spare himself and his family further embarrassment. If he continues down this road of race-baiting and condescension towards the Black community, he just might disqualify himself from consideration of a ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy represents everything that is wrong with the conservative movement and it pisses me the hell off! I am fond of saying that even when conservatives try to do the right thing, they do it the wrong way. Ramaswamy is exhibit A in this regard. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I am fond of saying that weak people take strong positions on weak issues! The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) specifically and the media appointed radical Black liberal leaders in general are the embodiment of this adage. Their original mission was to secure civil rights ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) OK, OK, I give up, I give up! You win, you win! I have been inundated with emails and phone calls from my readers wanting my thoughts on the Ebony K. Williams issue. I usually don’t write about issues like this and personalities like Williams because it really is ...