(ThyBlackMan.com) Fox News Megyn Kelly vehemently insisted that Santa Claus was white and so was Jesus and that both are recognized, established historical figures, their race is known with certainty. Is there any truth to her claims? None whatsoever. Santa Claus is a mythical figure. Various cultures claim that ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Don’t Shop For One Weekend To Honor Trayvon Martin. We get no respect from the justice system. A Black life is worth far less than others to police and to the courts. But we can sure spend money to make ourselves feel good. Our hard earned dollars are a ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Very few of the many, many thousands of Confederate soldiers who died defending slavery actually owned slaves. Most were just poor farmers. Not only were the slave owners few and far between, they were clustered in swiftly moving cavalry units that suffered far fewer casualties than the plodding infantry ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Hillary Clinton is still playing coy on the one question that many incessantly ask, and that’s will she run? Her response in a recent interview to the politically tantalizing question was simply to say that she will do what’s best to advocate for the values and policies she thinks ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Joe McCarthy was the infamous United States Senator who launched a witch hunt, known as the Red Scare of the 1950s, which falsely accused so many of being communists intending to destroy the country. Joe McCarthy finally got his comeuppance at a Congressional hearing when Atty. Joseph Nye Welch ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) African American Lewis Latimer invented the filament for the light bulb that illuminates our homes and brings motion pictures to life. The first feature length film was D. W. Griffith’s Birth of A Nation (1915). Up until then movies were never more than 30 minutes. Birth Of A Nation, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Embattled TV chef, Paula Deen, is in the news again. Her chief assistant, Dora Clark, a Black woman, is suing Deen for not compensating her properly. She also claims that Deen asked her and other female workers to dress and act like Aunt Jemima, the figure on the pancake ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Expect George Zimmerman to be found guilty of manslaughter receive substantial jail time. After he shot the unarmed, 17 year old Trayvon Martin, the cops told him to go home and forget it. Massive demonstrations subsequently swept the nation. And so he was charged with homicide and the police chief ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) It started with a dignified, matronly lady refusing to give up her seat on the bus, and it ended with more than 100 cities aflame. Martin Luther King did not launch the 1955 bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama, but he soon emerged as its champion and the leader of the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) A White coach, curses, bullies, hits and hurls homophobic slurs at his mainly Black basketball team for years. No one says anything until a Black assistant coach brings the matter to light. The offending White coach is given a slap on the wrist. The Black assistant coach is fired. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The most common answer, “He was not blond and blue-eyed like they show him in movies and paintings. He was darker than that, like the people who live in North Africa today.” However, the average American today looks nothing like the average American 500 years ago when Columbus arrived. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Every work of fiction is prefaced with the claim, “Any similarity to any real persons or situations is purely coincidental.” But don’t you believe it. Every piece of writing, particularly if it aspires to greatness, contains but a thin veneer over the real. The difference is that here the writer ...