(ThyBlackMan.com) The Revolution of 1776 took place during the height of the Enlightenment, the era when Western Science was being formed. the leading European thinkers at the time, all mathematicians, saw themselves as the Enlightened Ones, illuminated by newly found knowledge. They saw the precision and “rationality” of Mathematics as the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I see that that the presidential prospects of Michael Avenatti have suffered a setback. Actually, they have suffered several setbacks. Critics of the aspiring Democratic candidate for 2020 are hopeful that his days as a candidate are numbered. His bookings on the cable networks are down, and it is going ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Let’ compare and contrast the cases of Cosby, Kavanaugh and Clarence Thomas. When Clarence Thomas was accused of sexually harassing Anita Hill in 1991, few even knew what sexual harassment was. Back in the day, many a powerful executive had a stunning young secretary at his side who, it was ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) For some strange reason, but then again it’s not so strange, the recent wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle was presented as if it were some sort of landmark event. In reality, though, we have always been in the British Isles and in every level of society. Let us ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Even after the adoption of legalized segregation in the late 19th century, individuals who were as much as one quarter Black were classified as white. According to George Tillman a delegate to the South Carolina constitutional convention in 1895. It is a scientific fact that there is not one full-blooded ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Raiders from what present day African country enslaved more than a million Europeans and US citizens in the 18th and 19th centuries? Their ships sailed as far north as Iceland attacking European shipping and coastal settlements seizing thousands upon thousands of captives and selling them into slavery. This country eventually ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Ladies and gentlemen, I just saw Blackkklansman, and I urge you to see it too ASAP. It is entertaining, informative, empowering and towards the end you will be sitting on the edge of your seat. It starts off slow and quirky and steadily builds in intensity. Somehow we have it ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Ponder this for a moment. If Eurocentricity is wrong, how can Afrocentricity be right? Eurocentricity is a form of ethnocentricity which, by definition, is pernicious. Thus, by the same token shouldn’t Afrocentricity also be seen as negative? Dr. Molefi Kete Asante says that “the Afrocentric analysis re-establishes the centrality of the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) BUY – Better to buy and own the roof over your head. RENT – Better to rent and not worry about repairs and other costly unforeseen circumstances. BUY – Who do you think, ultimately, pays for any and all extra costs your landlord encounters? You do. RENT – But why ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) After a few introductory remarks and recognition of the parents of Trayvon Martin and what they are going through. The president went on to say The second thing I want to say is to reiterate what I said on Sunday, which is there’s going to be a lot of arguments ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) As European settlements inched west, Black, white and Native Americans, fleeing forced labor within their confines, melted into the interior and mixed with those Native Americans just beyond the frontier (front tier) of the unstoppable westward expansion. William Loren Katz in The Black Indians: A Hidden Heritage notes, “With few ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The US has often been called a melting pot. Whether or not this is so ethnically, it is certainly true in the cultural sense. For example, Berry Gordy and his Motown Record Company avidly promoted cultural exchange and intermixture. Before Motown white record companies thoroughly dominated the music industry, deciding ...