(ThyBlackMan.com) Against the wishes of her New York Democratic constituents, Hillary Clinton voted with Senate Republicans to invade Iraq. (It was a pivotal vote. Without Democratic support, George W. Bush’s request for this war of aggression would have failed.) Humayun Khan, 27, was an army captain who got killed during that ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Donald Trump’s presidential campaign rhetoric is, by most accounts, “populist, ” but that’s a broad description. Trump takes his “populism” from a particular historical tradition — one with a baleful history in American politics. What is populism, and what’s the problem with Donald Trump’s version of it? Simplified, populism is ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Two large questions loom on the question of race in America. One, after almost eight years of a black man as president of the United States, why does the country remain so deeply racially divided? Two, why, after more then a half-century since the passage of the Civil Rights Act ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Somewhere around 1822 Harriet Tubman was born into American slavery. The institution truly didn’t suit her fancy. By 1849, Harriet was a run-away slave bent on abolishing slavery by freeing as many slaves as possible until the sordid institution either imploded or was revolutionized. Soon thereafter, Harriet was dubbed Moses ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Michelle Obama gave a magnificent speech during the Democratic National Convention on July 25, as the first lady reflected on her family’s nearly eight years as residents of the White House, as its first African-American inhabitants. “I wake up every morning in a house that was built by slaves,” Mrs. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Once again racist cops shoot and kill another unarmed melanated person, but this time it’s a young 23 year old mother named Koryn Gaines of Baltimore, Maryland. Baltimore PD “claims” that Gaines “pointed a shotgun” at them and fired first and I don’t buy their statement one bit because negropeans ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) It’s no secret that many people drink and drive on a regular basis. They may not get absolutely wrecked and then get behind the wheel. They may only be “a little tipsy” when they start driving. It’s not wise, but people do it anyway, despite the fact that we ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Whether we get the flu or break a leg, we go to see “the doctor.” But if there’s something wrong with our teeth, we go and see a whole other health professional, the dentist. This distinction suggests that our teeth have special significance and that we should look after ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The great Fred Hampton, Black Panther leader that was murdered by Chicago police in cahoots with the FBI on December 3,1969, had a refrain he used in his speeches. “I am a revolutionary.” Partly he was killed because of his oratory skills, partly because of his organizing skills. He ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The greatest threat to the United States right now is not terrorism, foreign or domestic. It’s not the economy or the disappearance of jobs in the coal-mining regions or the manufacturing sector. Nor is it the coming rise of the seas to lap at America’s coastal cities. The greatest ...