(ThyBlackMan.com) “When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people, there is liberty.” — Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) As the world watches the disastrous ending of America‘s nearly 20-year occupation of Afghanistan, we cannot lose sight of what is happening here, just below the media ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) One year ago, after the brutal murder of George Floyd, the summer of 2020 gave us a great white awakening to the truth of systemic racism, and the big pledge to address it. For a moment, it seemed like every company had tapped their PR agents to compose pro-BLM ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Nearly 20 years to the day that foreign terrorists took down the twin towers in New York City – when thousands of lives were lost and trillions of dollars were spent — the Afghanistan War has ended in utter and complete misery. Now, the White House is trying to ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Just like we struggled to understand why, with the fall of South Vietnam’s capital of Saigon in 1975, we lost what was then our longest war in history, today – with the ongoing fall of Afghanistan’s capital of Kabul – we will soon struggle to understand why we lost our new, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) When you ask the average Black person about the term BIPOC, a likely response might be “BIPOC”, what is that? Bi-what? Or, Bi-who? BIPOC – Black, Indigenous, and People of Color. The more I see the term, the more I wonder where it came from, who created it, and ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Locs have been around for centuries. While some claim that they descend from ancient Greece, others swear that they were first spotted in Egypt. But if there is one thing we know for certain, it is that they are a big part of African culture to this day. From ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Milton Friedman used to quip that, in Washington, if a government program is working, Congress says we need to spend more money on it. And if a government program is failing, Congress concludes we are not spending enough money on it. We are seeing that in spades with the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The bipartisan group of senators who just passed a $1.1 trillion federal infrastructure bill are attempting to sell it as a reasonable, centrist compromise. Yet it is neither reasonable nor centrist. If approved by the House, the bill would immensely expand the size and power of the federal government, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In April, President Joe Biden told the nation he would have all U.S. troops out of Afghanistan by Sept. 11, the 20th anniversary of the worst terrorist attack ever on the continental United States. Given the turn of events of the past week, that 20th anniversary may be celebrated ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Right-wing Black talk jock Larry Elder should be a bad joke but isn’t. The one person who knows that is the man Elder is trying to unseat in the September California governor recall. That’s California Governor Gavin Newsom. He has sent out a flurry of emails attacking Elder and ...