(ThyBlackMan.com) Donald Trump and an entourage of prominent business titans visited China last week from May 13-15. Of course, Trump touted the trip as an extremely successful event, claiming great progress was made establishing greater partnerships between the US and China. But did that really happen, is Trump telling the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) For months now, Democrats have been arguing about whether to release the “autopsy” the National Committee commissioned on what went wrong in 2024. The report was completed but then not released; under pressure, Democratic National Committee Chairman Ken Martin released the report this week, but only with the caveat ...
Trump Corruption Claims Grow As Critics Question White House Ethics And Insider Trading Allegations.
(ThyBlackMan.com) This is the Trump era, which means if you blink, you will miss another shattering example of unabashed corruption. I don’t usually write about the same topic twice in a row, but the latest revelations of Trump’s wanton, shameless profiteering from the White House cannot go unremarked. The term ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Several years ago, while I was speaking with one of my mentors, I showed him a church photo that was very disturbing to me. In the center of the picture was a person, whom I assumed to be the pastor, standing at the pulpit and shaking hands with another ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Donald Trump is now an unpopular president. Some of this dissatisfaction is due to the war in Iran. Some of it springs from the unanticipated speed, chaos and perceived brutality of several of his administration’s actions over the past year and a half. But a significant part of his ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) My grandmother was born in 1916 on the same red Virginia ground where her grandfather was born enslaved. She lived to one hundred and five. She carried the weight of what her family had been to my family, and what her family had been to itself, the way you carry ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) One of the most frustrating aspects of contemporary conversations about politics and public policy is how often the deleterious effects of terrible programs — local, state and federal — are brushed aside with distracting (and even deceitful) claims that the intentions behind the policies were “compassionate.” This is an ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) This week, President Donald Trump announced that he plans to give away tax dollars without congressional or judicial authorization to his friends and allies whom he believes were mistreated by the Biden administration. Can he legally do that? Here is the backstory. During the last year of his first ...