(ThyBlackMan.com) The old blues singer had it right: “When a lady gets the blues, she hangs her head and cries. When a man gets the blues, he grabs the train and rides.” The relationship between poverty and family breakdown has always been undeniable. For decades, conservatives have rightly sounded the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Even if President Trump did the right not the abominable, unconscionable, potentially starvation threatening wrong thing in refusing to release the $5.5 billion held in the SNAP contingency fund it will not change one brutal, life endangering fact. Even if every penny is released, the contingency fund amount only ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The United States is engaged in summary executions on the high seas. That bald fact is being obscured by talk of drug interdiction and war powers and whether we’re certain the drugs on those boats were headed for the United States or somewhere else. Let’s be clear. Even if ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Nick Fuentes represents one of the most polarizing figures of twenty-first-century American political life. To understand him is to confront how the political fringes, once confined to obscure corners of the internet, have begun to shape the tone and trajectory of mainstream conservatism. From a historian’s point of view, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I received a massive response from my column last week. I wrote about the Trump administration being open for business, especially for small businesses, and even more so for Black businesses. I was subsequently contacted by a small group of extremely successful Black entrepreneurs. Many are household names and each ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) For decades, labor unions have sold Americans a lie—that they stand for the working man. In truth, they’ve always stood for themselves. Bloated, unaccountable, and addicted to political power, union bosses have drained taxpayers, strangled innovation, and driven good jobs out o f the country. A new report by ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The sound you heard was windows being smashed at the East Wing. The sound you did not hear was questions from officials paid to monitor what happens to a National Heritage Site. The White House is owned by the American people, not any current inhabitant. It’s true that other ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In American politics, a single image can shift the narrative of a man’s career. One photograph — one gesture — can eclipse months of speeches and policies, transforming substance into scandal. Such is the case with Vice President JD Vance and Erika Kirk, the widow of conservative firebrand Charlie ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In just a few days, a Karl Marx-quoting communist who has struggled to disavow Hamas is likely to be elected the next mayor of the nation’s financial and cultural epicenter. Thirty-three-year-old New York state Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani has surged to the front of the race. He leads by double ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) For millions of Americans, the federal government isn’t an abstraction. It’s a paycheck, a housing voucher, a student loan payment, a disaster relief check. When the government shuts down, those lives shut down too. Yet here we are again — watching a small band of ideologues in Congress hold the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The Trump administration is ordering the removal of information on slavery at multiple national parks in an effort to scrub them of “corrosive ideology”. To describe the truth about our Black experience and history as “corrosive ideology” is not only an insult, but it highlights the possible long-term damage ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I consider myself a very common-sense kinda fella and tend to see things in a simple manner. In the military, we had an acronym, KISS (keep it simple, stupid). It has always been apparent to me that when folks claim something is too complex, they are trying to hoodwink ...