(ThyBlackMan.com) There is little room to debate that of all the sins British citizens settling the Jamestown colony committed, the most reverberating was the construction of Race. Make no mistake about it, Race has proven to be politically expedient and economic fortuitous for white elites residing on the North American continent ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Amidst the ongoing political noise and distractions in Washington, D.C., President Trump continues to focus on and address the nation’s most deep-seated problems. In the wake of signing a temporary funding bill to get the government back open, the president directed attention to one of our biggest problems. Education. Donald ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) No one is paying much attention, but Congress is preparing a two-year budget that would blow past bipartisan spending caps to the tune of $216 billion through 2019. That might be a best-case scenario. The budget watchers at FreedomWorks estimate that when hurricane disaster relief, funding for the border wall, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I am fond of saying, “weak people take strong positions on weak issues.” There is no better example of this than the embarrassing behavior of the weak Congressional Black Caucus (CBC), the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), and the National Urban League (NUL). These groups have ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In 1963, speaking to the noted psychologist Dr. Kenneth Clark, James Baldwin describes the experience of meeting a 16-year-old black boy who declared: “I’ve got no country. I’ve got no flag.” Baldwin continues: “I couldn’t say, ‘you do.’ I don’t have any evidence to prove that he does.” Today, some ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The truth is, you aren’t going to be happy in every situation. Not liking a situation doesn’t make you bad, incompetent or unprofessional, nor it makes you lose anything. All you need is to gain control over the situation you are in. And even if it is not possible to ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Did you make a resolution to save money for you and your entire family? If so, trying to find different ways to stay on a budget to cut back costs can be a challenge. Getting everyone on board is the only way to do it. From slashing your grocery bill ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Over the last century, years that ended in “8” have played an outsized role in history. Some prominent examples are: 1918 – With the end of World War I came the collapse of the Ottoman Empire and the formation of a new set of nation-states in what we have come ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “Since 1804 Haiti has maintained national independence. I fling these facts at the feet of the detractors of the Negro and of Haiti. They may help them to solve the problem of her future. They not only indicate the Negro’s courage, but demonstrate his intelligence as well. No better test ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) When the unemployment rate dropped and economic conditions improved under the leadership of President Barack Obama, 45 derided the gains as “fake news”. He suggested that the monthly Employment Situation (www.bls.gov) reports of the Bureau of Labor Statistics were inaccurate and “made up”. These are the monthly reports that detail ...