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(ThyBlackMan.com) I know I preface a lot of what I write with “when I was growing up,” or “in my childhood.” But it is factual and rings poetic. In my early years, a movie called “Carwash“ came out. It is a 1976 comedy set over the course of a single day at a busy Los Angeles car wash called the “De Luxe Car Wash.” The workers include a mix of […]

(ThyBlackMan.com) No one, in his right mind, will ever be able to accuse God of being unreasonable. True, the word unreasonable can be bandied about, it can be in some cases nothing more than one’s subjective opinion, but rational people can determine when something is reasonable. God created this world, put us here to live and set the standards that he wishes us to live by and observe. It is […]

(ThyBlackMan.com) Michael B. Jordan just took things to another level, winning his first Oscar for Sinners and reminding folks that this rise did not happen overnight. From his early days on The Wire to standout roles in Fruitvale Station, Black Panther, and the Creed films, he has put together the kind of career that demands respect. But beyond the awards and applause, what really makes him interesting is the way […]

(ThyBlackMan.com) For many years we have heard about Tuskegee airmen. A few years ago, we had the opportunity to see the movie Red Tails.  We were delighted in the fact that they were Black as they performed seemingly impossible feats.  Now may be a time for people wanting to be involved in the aviation industry to shine again.  The ones we saw in the movie were masters of their trade. Now, […]

(ThyBlackMan.com) In selecting Mojtaba Khamenei as its new Supreme Leader, Iran sent a strong message to the United States. Khamenei is the second-eldest son of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who the U.S. and Israel killed at the start of their war against Iran. That message is, in the vernacular, a “one-finger salute” to Iran’s two primary enemies. Arguably, however, Iran’s leaders sent an even stronger message to their nation. That message […]

(ThyBlackMan.com) Ashley Marie Williams. This is a name that few if asked in L.A. would know. But Williams looms large in an issue that far too often has fallen under the radar scope of the media, the public, local officials, and law enforcement. She is one of the countless number of Blacks, overwhelmingly women, and children, who go missing in Los Angeles almost daily. This mirrors the Black missing persons […]

(ThyBlackMan.com) During the past couple of months, I have undertaken an informal experiment with many of my friends who are media appointed leaders of all the top Black civil entitlement organizations (some refer to them as civil rights organizations, but I digress). These friends of mine work in leadership positions for radical liberal groups like the NAACP, The National Urban League, the Congressional Black Caucus, The National Association of Black […]

(ThyBlackMan.com) I attended the memorial services this week honoring Jesse Jackson, joining thousands who gathered to celebrate the life of a man whose voice shaped the modern civil rights movement. As speaker after speaker reflected on Rev. Jackson’s extraordinary life — his preaching, his presidential campaigns, his global advocacy for justice — I found myself watching another figure whose presence told an equally important story about the movement itself. Jacqueline Jackson […]

(ThyBlackMan.com) Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu have taken the world to war again, offering us a pre-apocalyptic picture of apprehensions, vulnerabilities, catastrophes and consequences to come, pretending an existential threat to them when they, themselves, are a real threat to the world and their own countries. For anyone with even a modicum of historical knowledge knows there will be consequences, blowback and strike back of various defensive, retributive, disruptive and […]

(ThyBlackMan.com) Last week I wrote about something my father, who is white, has said for years: when many white Americans hear the phrase “white privilege,” they respond by listing all the ways their lives have been hard.  But if you talk about “white advantage,” the conversation changes.  Advantage is measurable. It doesn’t erase suffering. It simply acknowledges that race still tilts the system. After that column ran, readers reached out […]