(ThyBlackMan.com) GOP presidential contender Donald Trump loudly boasts that he has turned out “millions” of new voters. He gloats that these are the people the GOP has never seen before. The millions figure is vintage Donald Trump bunkum since there is no way to measure just how many of the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I recently read an article about the reformation of Riker’s Island, an infamous jail located in NYC. And, I’m thinking, I guess they’re going to make it a bit more comfortable, a bit more inviting, a bit more spacious; and a lot more durable for future generations. They’ll claim ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The political climate leading up to the 2016 presidential election is one of a dystopian Zootopia. One where we’re seeing democratic donkeys and G.O.P. elephants behaving as snake-like savages: One were the chickens have come home to roost in the hate-mongering and xenophobic intolerance of the Republican party as ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I dislike the geographic parameters imposed by the term “African history.” It relegates the history of African people, which, as you note later, is synonymous with “human beings,” to a specific place. I will use the Jewish people here to construct a point. I perceive the Jews as a ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) When we speak of the Feasts of the Lord, we are talking about the word “moadim”, which means “appointed times”. Yehovah, who is now Yeshua, commanded that seven appointed times be observed and kept by His people, Israel. The seven appointed times in order are – Passover, Unleavened Bread, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The time is upon us. The gods, as they were, are about to walk amongst us again as Gods of Egypt’s theatrical release is this week. First there was Exodus: Gods and Kings. I guess we were supposed to turn a blind eye because Moses’ titular role was played ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you have of the former.” – Horace Mann, “Report of the Superintendent of Public Instruction of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania,” 1881 America is addicted to incarceration. No nation ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) It’s rare that I actually write a post and decide to rewrite it. It’s even rarer that I write a post and decide that’s not quite the post I want to write and delete it. That’s what’s happened this time around; and yes, it was on a leadership topic. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Julian Castro dropped his copy of “Paso a Paso” and staggered, like a punch-drunk boxer, catching himself with one arm against a wall. It was as if he felt Hillary Clinton cross his name from her list of potential vice presidential candidates to flank her this summer. She doesn’t ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) As the proud owner of NBC 25 in Flint, Michigan, it is important for us to understand the community and to become a part of it as much as we can. As a station owner, we have the ability to elevate the needs and concerns of the downtrodden, hold ...