(ThyBlackMan.com) The Schumer shutdown of the federal government epitomizes the Democrats’ entire strategy for working with the remarkable presidency of Donald Trump: No, No, Never-ever. When their Party held the White House, Democrats demanded “clean” spending bills, stripped of any unrelated issues. This more reasonable approach has been replaced with a ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Being a leader can be pretty complex, but there are some key skills and traits that many great leaders exhibit. Whether you want to go into politics, or you are going to run a little league soccer team, leadership skills are very useful to have. Leadership skills are also a ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Chatter is the rapid and incessant talk about trivial matters – most of it of the negative variety. Many relationships, companies, churches, and indeed personal lives have all been destroyed by the insidious and often bitter reality of chatter. Negative chatter tends to have a bad effect on the way ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Why are we afraid of racists? Racist people have no or little effect on me. My book “Tribalism” points out what will bring us out of misery. In “It’s OK to Leave the Plantation,” I illustrate the only way out for us. The idea that black folks must wait in ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) President Donald Trump should be celebrating his historic accomplishments on the one-year anniversary of his presidency. Instead, he’s fighting obstructionist Democrats who are making good on their pledge to resist the president’s efforts to “Make America Great Again.” Democrats caused the 2018 government shutdown by voting against a continuing resolution, ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) U.S. Sen. Cory Booker made a fool of himself on Tuesday of this week. In a hearing in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee at which Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen testified, Booker loudly professed shock and indignation at the allegations President Donald Trump had referred to certain countries as ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Rip Van Winkle is a story by Washington Irving that was written in 1819. Rip Van Winkle goes to sleep under an oak tree after a night of bowling and much drinking with a band of dwarves in the mountains. He awakens twenty years later – an old man – ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Those predicting the death of virtual reality should look at HTC Vive Pro because it’s a proof that VR will grow and it’s not going to die anytime soon. So when Facebook-owned Oculus introduced Rift virtual reality headset, people started speculating on the possibilities of VR touching many industries other ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) There’s a lot of excitement about the upcoming PS4 and Xbox One exclusive games in 2018. Well, if you are looking for some non-exclusive titles, you can get Bioware’s Anthem, the delayed sequel to Red Dead Redemption, Mega Man 11, Code Vein, and Far Cry 5. But since we are ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) We all know that expectations hurt and we should not expect from people we love. Some people go to an extent where they don’t refrain from declaring that they don’t expect anything from anyone. It’s true that expectations hurt but there is a fine line between realistic expectations and the ...