Is the Unrestricted Flow Of Money Ruining Our Politics Or Improving It?

(ThyBlackMan.com) Money is ruining politics! What do you mean? The Supreme Court removed virtually every barrier to restrict the flow of money into politics. What’s wrong with that? Why shouldn’t everyone be able to spend as much as they want to back any candidate they want? What’s wrong with that? I can’t believe you’re saying that. Money... [Read more...]

Ron Paul calls Mitt Romney.

(ThyBlackMan.com) It seems Texas Republican Congressman Ron Paul is assisting former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney’s bid for the Republican nomination. According to NBC News, the Ron Paul campaign is passing around opposition research to the Mitt Romney campaign, focusing on thwarting former Pennsylvania U.S. Senator Rick Santorum’s rise in... [Read more...]

Thy GOP Again Has its Sights on the Voting Rights Act.

(ThyBlackMan.com) The landmark 1965 Voting Rights Act must be renewed every twenty five years. In 1981 despite some grumbles and idle threats to oppose its renewal from a few in the Reagan administration, President Reagan dutifully signed the renewal legislation. A quarter century later, again despite the grumbles and idle threats from some in Congress... [Read more...]

President Obama’s Syrian Quandary: Why is 2012 Any Different from 1982?

(ThyBlackMan.com) With each passing day, the Obama administration and the international community appear to be struggling to find a way to deal with the crisis in Syria. Just four days ago the United States closed the US Embassy in Syria after Russia and China blocked a UN resolution drafted by Arab and European countries on Saturday that may have... [Read more...]

President Obama, Why, the Black Babies? Why?

(ThyBlackMan.com) What is up with these people on the left? Why do the same folks who passionately defend the life of a whale, spotted owl, baby seal, a toad and a death-row serial killer, get extremely angry at the mere suggestion that a woman consider not killing her baby? Why? I can only conclude, it is a spiritual thing. I know what some of you... [Read more...]

The GOP, Yes Republican Party Needs A Cadillac…

(ThyBlackMan.com) Recently, I had lunch with a very powerful Republican elected official who is a good friend of mine.  We have extremely candid conversations, especially about race (he is white).  Out of nowhere he asked me what was the reason Blacks have a historical affinity for Cadillac automobiles (named after the French explorer who founded... [Read more...]

The President’s Budget Comes Up Short!

(ThyBlackMan.com) Expanding the national deficit in the manner our President proposes will not create long term jobs and a national recovery! How much more can Blacks take without some cracks showing up in their support? There is no question about it, Black workers of America, we will complete our fourth straight year mired in double-digit unemployment... [Read more...]

Politics: Yes A Prelude to War.

(ThyBlackMan.com) I’ve been reading Margaret Walker’s Jubilee when it occurred to me the same ideological differences that existed between political parties towards the end of chattel slavery and the reign of the antebellum south are the same fundamental differences that exist between the parties now. Furthermore, just like the North and South... [Read more...]

Barack Obama + Sidney Poitier In The Heat of the Night.

(ThyBlackMan.com) This Black History Month, as usual, one can find any number of Sidney Poitier flicks playing on the tube. In the Heat of the Night was one of this iconic African American actor’s most famous movies. As I watched Poitier going through his paces in this 1968 film running all this month on cable, for the life of me, all I could see... [Read more...]

Samuel L. Jackson: Look Beyond President Obama.

(ThyBlackMan.com) Are you as sick of hearing me talking about race as I am talking about it? For crying out loud, all I ask is that liberals please, please, please look beyond their emotions and President Obama’s skin color and honestly assess the man. It is stunning that liberals still think I should be totally committed to supporting this man... [Read more...]

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