(ThyBlackMan.com) It comes back around every few years like a bad knee in cold weather. Some fellow at the barbershop leans in, or it is a voice on the television, and the question lands dead serious. Where is the next Obama? Then everybody starts running down the governors, the senators, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Watch the man long enough and you notice something quiet underway. Barack Obama walked out of that big White House back in 2017, and plenty figured the arena was finished with him. Retirement suits some people fine. Golf, travel, a memoir that prints money. Everybody assumed #44 would settle ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Here in the stretch before the midterms, the baddest man ever to lace up gloves is right where he always seems to end up, planted somewhere in Donald Trump’s corner. No belt on the line, no pay-per-view audience to impress, nothing to sell but presence itself. Iron Mike is ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) So here is the mess that dropped this week, and I aim to give it to you plain. Journalist Rula Jebreal went on The Left Hook podcast with host Wajahat Ali and called Hakeem Jeffries an “AIPAC monkey.” Then she piled on with “errand boy.” Right after that came ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I have watched a lot of politicians stand at a podium and talk about the little man. Most of the time the little man they picture looks nothing like me, my nephews, or the fellas I came up with back home. So when Vice President JD Vance gets up ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I remember the night in November 2008 when grown Black men in my circle wept without any shame at all. One of our own stood before the world as our incoming president, and a thing we had been raised to believe impossible suddenly breathed. That moment mattered. It still ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) There is a moment on election night when the winner steps to the microphone and tells you, without saying it plainly, how he wants to be understood. Byron Donalds had his moment this week. He stood on that Orlando stage with his wife and three sons behind him, and ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Let me say this plain, the way my uncle used to put it on the porch when somebody came around asking for something. You do not hand over your vote because a person smiles nice and hates the same folks you hate. Make them show you what is in ...