(ThyBlackMan.com) America’s business elites have used immigration as a tool to avoid hiring Black Americans for the past two centuries. This pattern of discrimination has depressed African Americans’ employment and wages — and is a significant cause of persistent racial wealth gaps. The trend began even before the Civil War. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Despite the changing society we live in, the honor of being a teacher will never change. Knowing that a teacher can shape the young minds of children for a lifetime is a reward in itself. Both the student and society benefits when a teacher is successful in molding future ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The Republican establishment is with former President Donald Trump. Nearly every Republican elected official in Washington is rushing to kiss his ring. Yes, the same guys and gals who have played a role in getting us into this mess want to have the sole person who, along with President ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Charlie Kirk, speaking to students and teachers at American Fest, a political convention organized by Turning Point, insisted, “MLK [Martin Luther King] was awful. He’s not a good person. He said one good thing he actually didn’t believe.” Kirk has never risked that last full measure of devotion for ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The National Football League’s head coaching carousel continues to spin and the two biggest head coaching candidates were NFL legend Bill Belichick and Michigan Wolverines National Champion Jim Harbaugh. Both men have won at high levels consistently throughout their careers and it is rare for NFL franchises to have ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The NFL has announced that for the fourth year in a row, the so-called black national anthem, “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” will be performed at the Super Bowl. It appears we’ve come full circle since the 2004 Democratic National Convention when then-Illinois State Sen. Barack Obama said: “Yet ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The United States is known for its economic and military prowess. Its diversity of cultures and ideas has made the U.S. a destination for people from all over the world in search of the American dream. Despite this fact, even the wealthiest country in the world deals with poverty. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I am of a different age. I took science and Biology where I learned humans are mammals and that all female mammals have mammary glands to produce milk to feed their young and so on. It was a simpler age where in the 8th grade we took Tennessee History ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) It seems many still harbor, or want to perpetuate, the illusion that our Social Security system is not in trouble. Let me quote here from a press release from the Social Security Administration released March 31, 2023: “The Social Security Board of Trustees today released its annual report on ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Just when we thought things were getting better around the world, and at home, some of the craziest stuff raised its ugly head not to resolve problems, but to create more. We were heavily impacted by the Israeli-Hamas tragedy. Our hearts were broken for friends caught up in a ...