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(ThyBlackMan.com) I have buried friends. Sat across thick glass from men I love too, watched them grow gray under hard fluorescent light while the world kept on turning without them in it. So when I speak to you now, understand the words are coming from a heart that has already ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) When the One Big Beautiful Bill Act came up for a vote on the Senate floor on July 1 of last year, 50 senators voted for it, and 50 senators voted against it. Vice President JD Vance had to cast the tie-breaking vote in that chamber — so the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Every few years the culture circles back to the same question, and the name sitting in the middle of it never changes. Is Drake real hip hop? Brothers argue it in barbershops, in group chats, in comment sections that turn into warzones by noon. That question refuses to die ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) During President Trump’s recent state visit to China, Chinese leader Xi Jinping made reference to the “Thucydides Trap” when describing the United States and China. In political science terms, the “Thucydides Trap” essentially means that countries on the decline should learn to accept countries on the rise or risk ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Walk into almost any bar in Boston right now and you will hear bagpipes. Not on the speakers, actual bagpipes, carried by actual Scottish fans in kilts who have taken over the city like they were always supposed to be there. Locals have not minded one bit. They have ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) MS NOW commentator Ali Velshi was not alone in complaining that women are “underrepresented” in Congress. It is true that women account for 51% of the U.S. population but only 29% of the House members. To which I say, “So what.” Basing the notion of fair representation on racial, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) With the passing of Clive Davis at 94, respect has to come first. Before we talk about records sold, artists signed, labels built, or how many voices became household names under his watch, prayers and condolences go out to his family, loved ones, friends, and all who knew him ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) On June 18, Barack Obama stood in Jackson Park on Chicago’s South Side and tried, not very successfully, to hold back tears. Not performed emotion. Not the composed, camera-ready version of feeling that politicians learn somewhere along the way. Michelle was up at the podium talking about him, about ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Last week I had dinner with a good friend of mine who is a top executive in media. He is a very prominent publicly recognized figure who shall remain nameless. Politically, I consider him a liberal, though he would argue the point, but I digress. He wanted to know ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) When God asks you to remember something, whatever your level of spiritual maturity, it must register on your conscious radar that He would do so only for good reasons. Would God ask you to remember something that was trivial and of no importance? Hardly. When righteous Lot was fleeing ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In a new interview this week, Hillary Clinton identified the key decision that resulted in President Donald Trump’s election in 2024. It all boiled down, in her view, to a “terrible miscalculation” – former President Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s decision to run for re-election. Mr. Biden made a “terrible ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) For weeks Donald Trump has been waffling between threats of annihilation and promises of a “deal” to end all deals to resolve the Iran war; a war he started at the behest of another nation. Time after time Trump has said the Strait of Hormuz would be opened or ...
