(ThyBlackMan.com) The makeup of the United States population has changed over the centuries, and will continue to do so. But “a three way ethnic component was involved in the original basic ingredients of the formative American nation—white Englishmen, black Africans, and red Indians. The fact that nineteenth-century immigration added millions ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Slavery made perfect sense, so too did Jim Crow in its time, as does mass incarceration today. If it did not, we would long ago have ended it. Why haven’t we? According to Norbert Wiener, we “live in a chaotic moral universe,” wherein “our main obligation is to establish ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) As I watched the closing rounds in the 10-episode FX series, “Impeachment: American Crime Story,” I kept waiting for producers Ryan Murphy and colleagues to pull their punches and let Bill Clinton up off the mat, but they did not. In fact, they closed “Impeachment” Tuesday with the kind ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) We believe in rationality, the notion that there is a logical explanation for everything. The ancients believed that there were unseen forces, gods, that completely control and direct everything in the world and all that it contains. And so, they believed that the gods foreshadowed, so to speak, their ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I was quite taken aback by something said at last Tuesday’s discussion, The Changing Currents in Haiti: Can the Diaspora Steer the Tide, sponsored by Dr. Natanya Duncan, Director of Africana Studies at Queens College and moderated by Dr. Francois Pierre-Louis. Attorney Leonie Hermantin declared with regards to helping ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character,” declared Martin Luther King at the foot of the Lincoln Memorial, in 1963. Lincoln, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The first humans, Anthropology tells us, appeared about 5,000,000 years ago in East Africa. The key difference between humans and other hominids is that we use tools. The oldest tool was a club. Fossils found with bone clubs nearby are characterized as among the first human beings on earth. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Black Studies, just like the people it chronicles is under attack. And so, on the 50thAnniversary of the Black Studies movement, African American professor, Arthur Lewin, in The End of Black Studies asks, “What is the goal, or end, that Black Studies was created to attain, and whether or not it ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The terms “minority” and “non-white,” used in reference to Blacks, Latinos are Asians are incorrect and inaccurate. How can there be a term like “non-white,” when the term “non-Black” is never heard, unless, that is, “white” is the standard, which is the assumption when the term “non-white” is employed. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In spring 1993, says former Joe Biden staffer Tara Reade, the then-senator pinned her against a wall, reached under her skirt and violated her sexually. In January 1993, Bill Clinton became president of the United States. Clinton was first accused of rape at Oxford. While holding high offices in ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) You can blank out the name Hilary Clinton and pencil in the name Joe Biden, but the playbook is the same. Chapter after chapter in the playbook lays out the brutal blueprint of how to torpedo the candidacy of the Democratic presidential opponent. The authors of the playbook are ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) There are three issues, or better yet, concerns, for Democrats in the allegation by Joe Biden’s former staffer Tara Reade that he sexually harassed and assaulted her. They all have direct bearing on Biden’s chance to oust Trump. The first is how Trump will use the allegation against him. ...