(ThyBlackMan.com) A mind is a terrible thing to waste. Don’t let others do your thinking for you. What’s wrong with this statement? It is being bandied about in the media relentlessly. “Mitt Romney won a decisive victory in New Hampshire and became the first Republican non-incumbent to win both Iowa ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) What do you believe in? Nothing is certain. Science tells us that there is no thing at all that we can be absolutely certain is true. Nonetheless, there are things that each of us believes, to a certainty, are true. What fills that bill for you? The belief in ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) What is creativity? The ability to sing, to dance, to write, to act? Yes, it is all that, and more. It’s something that we all contain within our core. We can bring forth life and we can bring to life ideas, visions and sounds from the teeming thoughts with ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Here is a question. Christ is said to have been born on December 25th, and we supposedly measure time from the date of his birth. Then why does the New Year begin on January 1st? Shouldn’t it start on December 25th? Where did the extra week come from? The ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) On this the fourth and middle day of Kwanzaa, we celebrate Ujamaa, Cooperative Economics. Let us strengthen our resolve to build and maintain our own stores, shops and other businesses and to profit from them together. . . Malik Brown owns the Ebony Bookstore. For lunch, he goes to ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) On this, the third day of Kwanzaa, we celebrate the principle of Ujima, Collective Work and Responsibility. Today we renew our efforts to build and maintain our community, while working with others to solve our problems. In traditional Africa, and the Caribbean, and the South, when farmers work together ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) At first the mass media just about completely ignored Ron Paul, and when they did mention him it was merely to say he had not a snowball’s chance of winning the nomination. Now, though, now they are giving him much more air play focusing on derogatory comments attributed to ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) (At the end of this article we provide a brief explanation of the history and nature of Kwanzaa and its seven principles. Each day of Kwanzaa we will discuss one of these principles.) On this the second day of Kwanzaa, the principle of self-determination, kuchijagulia, is celebrated. Today we ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Nature works in shifts. There are night creatures and beings that live by day. Which do you belong to? Or do you try to be in both? Was it all that long ago TV stations signed off at midnight? And there was no one out there driving up and ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) We measure time by years, but why not call them Christmases? (Doesn’t each year end with one?) Christmas is the joy at the passage of time, New Years the sadness at time’s demise. But whether we call it the feast of the Midwinter Solistice, Christmas, New Years or Kwanzaa, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) We are the world. We come in every shade under the sun and then some. And we are one. We are black haired. We are brown haired. We are red haired. We are blond. We are dark and potent as the night. And we are as light as any ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Let me see if I understand this. The person who reads the news on TV is called a “commentator?” A COMMENTator? Implicit in their very designation is the expectation that they are providing editorial opinion. If in nothing else, at least in the title that these reporters carry, the ...