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(ThyBlackMan.com) Pain, and the fear, that can come with illness can make one cry out to God in a way never imagined. It can make one question God, cry out for God, feel afflicted by God, and possibly even abandoned by God all at the same time. Without realizing it, in a lot of cases it is important that God be solely at fault for our condition. Sometimes the only […]

(ThyBlackMan.com) Three weeks before he was killed, Martin Luther King Jr. stood up in a high school gym in Michigan and argued with a number.  The July jobs report says he was right. It was March of 1968. The government said unemployment in the Black community was 8.8 percent. King said it was almost twice that. Not because anybody was cooking the books. The country felt good about jobs that spring. […]

(ThyBlackMan.com) During the 2024 Republican National Convention, attendees and delegates were ecstatic when waving their “Mass Deportation Now” signs and cheering Donald Trump as he pledged for the largest deportation operation in U.S. history. Immigration and border security have always been hot-button issues, and the red meat message about mass deportation was what the convention crowd craved to hear. During the campaign, voters were told that deporting immigrants with criminal […]

(ThyBlackMan.com) During the 2024 Republican National Convention, attendees and delegates were ecstatic when waving their “Mass Deportation Now” signs and cheering Donald Trump as he pledged for the largest deportation operation in U.S. history. Immigration and border security have always been hot-button issues, and the red meat message about mass deportation was what the convention crowd craved to hear. During the campaign, voters were told that deporting immigrants with criminal […]

(ThyBlackMan.com) Boy oh boy did I hit a nerve with the media appointed Black leaders with my column from last week!!! Last week’s column titled, “Black People Have Ninety-Nine Problems, but Donald Trump Ain’t One,” put me in the crosshairs of the bourgeoisie, the talented tenth, and the boule all at the same time.  Click the above link to read what I wrote. I received tons of calls and emails […]

(ThyBlackMan.com) Folks love to file Michael Jackson under pop and keep it moving. The glove, the moonwalk, the spin that stopped a stadium cold. All of it real. None of it the whole man. Anybody raised on a transistor radio and a decent pair of speakers knows the part they leave out, so let me say it plain. The brother could scream. Not screech. Scream. There’s a canyon of difference […]

(ThyBlackMan.com) Somewhere between the streaming numbers and the sponsorship checks, rap forgot how to be dangerous. Not violent, not reckless with a pistol. Dangerous to the people who ought to be afraid of it. I sat with that feeling all through this year, watching another awards season roll past in 2026, and the ache kept crawling back. We got talent stacked to the rafters right now. Wordsmiths who could run […]

(ThyBlackMan.com) The war in Iran is unlawful and unconstitutional, but in post-World War II America, it is normal. Here is the backstory. When President Donald Trump decided to begin bombing Iran last June, he did not state a coherent or lawful reason for doing so. His director of national intelligence and his own CIA had publicly told him that Iran did not possess a nuclear weapon and had ceased building […]

(ThyBlackMan.com) The Democratic Socialists of America released their platform last month, and let’s give them credit for candor. They want public ownership of large corporations, the abolition of police and prisons, a defunded Pentagon and open borders. Conservatives read that document and saw the future they have been warning American voters about: the government seizing the commanding heights of the economy and becoming owner rather than referee. Their alarm is […]

(ThyBlackMan.com) In the National Football League, organization often highlight their best all-time players by retiring their jersey or putting their names and jersey numbers in the Ring of Honor. The Ring of Honor gives that former player a major link to their former NFL franchise with their name being added to the inside of the stadium for NFL fans to view and appreciate indefinitely. Honoring former franchise greats can be […]