(ThyBlackMan.com) I have been writing about politics long enough to remember when the idea of a Black family living in the White House was something folks only said in low voices, half dream and half dare. So when Michelle Obama walked through that door back in 2009, I watched the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I have buried friends. Sat across thick glass from men I love too, watched them grow gray under hard fluorescent light while the world kept on turning without them in it. So when I speak to you now, understand the words are coming from a heart that has already ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Walk into almost any bar in Boston right now and you will hear bagpipes. Not on the speakers, actual bagpipes, carried by actual Scottish fans in kilts who have taken over the city like they were always supposed to be there. Locals have not minded one bit. They have ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) On June 18, Barack Obama stood in Jackson Park on Chicago’s South Side and tried, not very successfully, to hold back tears. Not performed emotion. Not the composed, camera-ready version of feeling that politicians learn somewhere along the way. Michelle was up at the podium talking about him, about ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Barack Obama and Michelle Obama were never carried through the White House years on pillows. Folks who remember that season without dressing it up know better. Those years had heat on them. Health care had people hollering at town halls. Race stayed near the front door whether some wanted ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I have lived long enough to know when somebody is talking with us and when somebody is talking at us. That is part of what makes the Donald Trump conversation so tiring. It is not always about whether a person likes the man, dislikes him, voted for him, prayed ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Kamala Harris is one of those public figures I have had to sit with a little bit. I cannot say I ever looked at her and felt only one thing. There was some pride, sure, but there were questions too, and I do not believe Black voters should feel ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) When Barack Obama first started rising nationally, a lot of brothers paid attention immediately because something about him felt different. I am not even talking politics at first either. I am talking about the way the man carried himself. Calm. Sharp. Measured. The brother looked like somebody who thought ...