(ThyBlackMan.com) “At the Bottom of Politics … Lies Economics” Booker T. Washington spoke those words in his best effort to show us what is really happening in this country; he tried to convince us to stay focused on the money-side of things, and he admonished us not to immerse ourselves ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Bernie Sanders supporters are flocking to Jill Stein, the presumptive Green Party presidential candidate, with donations to her campaignexploding nearly 1000% after he endorsed Hillary Clinton. Jill Stein salutes Sanders for the progressive populist movement he began and says it is up to her to carry the baton. Can ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) It’s no secret that we are the greatest athletes because we run the fastest, jump the highest, hit the hardest, and possess superior mental and physical toughness on the field or on the court. But our superior athleticism these days has become far more of a curse than it is ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Dear Senator Sanders, Last summer you said you would not run as a third party candidate if you did not win the Democratic nomination. You said, “the reason for that is I do not want to be responsible for electing some right-wing Republican to be president of the United ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The urgent need for Former Rwandan Refugees Living in Zambia to acquire Rwandan Passports. Are Rwandan Refugees living in Zambia permitted to live there without proper documentation? Was their original UN Refugee status granted legalistically? If not, What must be done by all the parties affected/concerned “stakeholders”? It is highly ...
(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. ...