(ThyBlackMan.com) Mobility is more than moving from one place to another. In today’s world, it is a symbol of access, opportunity, connection, and empowerment. For African-American communities, mobility has deep historical roots, shaped by migration, resilience, and the ongoing pursuit of equity. Understanding modern mobility means appreciating both its practical ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Accused double murderer Nick Reiner in a rare lucid moment said something that hit the horrific nail on the head. He was quoted as saying I’m “a spoiled white rich kid from Hollywood.” Reiner realized that his celebrity, wealth, and above all privilege assured him the best mental health ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “What we are seeing unfold in our community is not public safety; it is a political stunt wrapped in badges, armored vehicles, and military uniforms.” – U.S. Rep. Troy Carter The Trump administration vowed its south Louisiana immigration sweep would target violent criminals. In reality, a mere handful of those ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) was signed into law in 2010, but it was immediately saddled with a name that became synonymous with failure: “Obamacare.” From day one, it was a disaster. It was a partisan, one-sided mess that left the American people behind. While the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Life in America doesn’t feel like life right now. It feels like triage. People get up, commute, grind through work, juggle kids and side hustles, scroll through their phones in bed until their eyes burn, then do it again tomorrow. They are surviving, but they are not living. The ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Nick Fuentes is one of the most controversial political figures to rise from the American right in recent years, and his emergence cannot be understood in isolation. He is not simply an internet provocateur, nor is he a traditional political leader shaped by party institutions. He is a product ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Factually, the United States economy is not enjoying a full employment economy, as President Donald Trump implies by presenting the official rate of unemployment for November, as 4.6%. Trump stating the nation’s unemployment rate is 4.6%, means 95% of United States’ workers, are fully employed. The estimated size of the U.S. work force is, 170 million people. Investopedia, a highly regarded financial educational web ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I remember in February 2002 when former SecDef Donald Rumsfeld came up with this logic, “As we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say, we know there are some things we do not ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) America stands between two evils, and the truth is blunt enough to bruise: If Trump’s birther-style executive order that is now before the Supreme Court were carried out, millions of longtime residents—many of them Latino, African, Caribbean, and Asian—would suddenly be reclassified as “non-citizens,” and candidates for deportation, even ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The Trump administration has announced it is appropriating twelve billion dollars to provide aid to the US agricultural industry as a means to offset their loss of foreign sales. While this is good news to US agribusiness it obfuscates the real reasons they are suffering, Trump’s bonehead tariffs and ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) As an Evangelical Christian, I am amazed, amused and appalled by the fact that so many of my fellow believers seem not to understand the ignorance, irony and hypocrisy of their stance regarding Sharia. I am specifically referring to those who identify as “Christian nationalists” and are very outspoken ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I have written several columns this year about how the Trump administration is open for business, especially when it comes to small business. Some have derided my optimism regarding this assertion. To those who have derided me, I have one response. In the immortal words of rapper Kool Moe ...