(ThyBlackMan.com) Amid the petty bickering, loud rhetoric and sordid attack ads in this year’s primary election campaigns, the death of a giant — Justice Antonin Scalia — suddenly overshadows all of that. The vacancy created on the Supreme Court makes painfully clear the huge stakes involved when we choose a ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders and rival Hillary Clinton trek to a meeting with the Reverend Al Sharpton for two reasons. The first is Sharpton himself. President Obama paid absolutely no heed to the by now ritualistic anti-Sharpton name calling by the assorted menagerie of right wing talk show ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) This past weekend I had the chance to be part of a historic event in Washington, DC. Black Americans for a Better Future (BAFBF) hosted their fourth annual Black Republican Trailblazer Awards Luncheon at the Willard Intercontinental Hotel.  We had a packed house for both the Saturday evening VIP ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) I listen to the news about the 2016 Presidential election religiously. What amazes me is that so many have just discovered that Blacks and Latinos will play such a decisive role in the 2016 election.  Didn’t we do that in 2008, 2012 and many other elections? Okay, so Blacks ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) We’ve all known (and maybe secretly hated) at least one person who was lucky enough to lead a lifetime of totally carefree living while never seeming to age. Whether it was drinking, smoking, or being able to eat whatever they wanted without gaining a pound, these people seem to ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) George Orwell said, “But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.” Gore Vidal elaborated on that insight, saying, “As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate.” And John Milton predicted, “When language in common use in any country ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) ”Love your neighbor as yourself,” is one of the two greatest commandments (Mark 12:31). It is often quoted when someone is making a point of the importance of loving others. But the most important element of that command is, “as yourself.” If you aren’t good at loving yourself, you ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) When I first heard that the Congressional Black Caucus had endorsed Hillary Clinton, I couldn’t believe my ears.  And yes, I said the Congressional Black Caucus. The debate over whether or not every member of the caucus agreed with the PAC’s endorsement of Hillary Clinton is nothing but a political ploy. It ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) A funny thing happened to me on my way to writing this blog. Two stories came out that were so unbelievably outrageous, ridiculous, and  absurd that I had to say something:  Now that  Republican Governor Rick Snyder has succeeded in poisoning the water supply for Flint MI., Republican presidential ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) In an election year, politicians tend to be light on policy specifics (closer to Donald Trump’s platitudes than to Mitt Romney’s 59-point jobs plan). That’s because revealing too much too soon creates a target that opponents can attack for a longer period of time. Paul Ryan recognized this in ...