King Solomon told me in Proverbs 14:12:  “There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.”

The reboot of the iconic TV show from the nineties, A Different World, reminds me of this scripture.

Beloved actor, director, and writer, Debbie Allen is the executive producer; and she added Felicia Pride to be the writer and producer.

I have no idea who Pride is, but from her writing credits I know why.

I am very disappointed in the reboot and especially of Allen.  She is legendary for producing very thoughtful, substantive shows.  Shows that make you think.

The reboot is my worst fears coming true.

The original A Different World followed students at Hillman College, a fictional historically Black university, navigating academic life, friendships, and campus challenges. Known for its authentic portrayal of Black college culture, it addressed social and political issues seldom seen on mainstream TV. Praised for strong performances, cultural impact, and thoughtful writing, it remains a significant hit in syndication.

One of the most iconic, memorable episodes from the original is by far the “If I Should Die Before I Wake” episode. It is the twenty-third episode of A Different World’s fourth season which was first broadcast on April 11, 1991.

Challenged by a speech-class assignment Josie (played by Tisha Campbell) reveals that she is HIV-positive, prompting her fellow students to re-examine everything they thought they knew about AIDS.

This episode explored the issue of AIDS from angles that were very evocative, powerful, loving, and yet real.  Everything that the reboot is not!

I am sure you can find this episode on the internet.

In the reboot’s first episode, Kadeem Hardison’s character Dwayne, goes off into this anti-Trump rant without mentioning Trump by name.  “…This is a watershed moment.  This country that we [referring to Blacks] built is trying to erase our Black history, our gains, our culture.  They [he never tells us who they are] want to demoralize us.  They want to deport us [American citizens cannot be deported] , they want to jail [only if you commit a crime]  us, they want to shoot us down in the streets [this is not happening].  But you, you all are their greatest threat [how]. You, future leaders who care about justice and community and each other.  I know you will stand up.  I know you will fight, build and you will change the world.  Now let’s get to it.”

I knew I was in trouble at this point.  I literally had my finger on the off button to turn the TV off; but forced myself to continue watching.

This diatribe is straight out of the liberal playbook.  This emotional rant is like the tinkling cymbal or the sounding brass; full of sound and fury signifying nothing.

I watched three and a half episodes before I had to shut it down.  I refuse to watch another episode of the reboot, EVER!!!

During the fourth episode all of a sudden out of nowhere you are thrust into a scene of two males being naked in bed together.

ENOUGH!!!

Not on my TV.  I was disgusted and extremely disappointed in Debbie Allen for putting this on the air.  There are so many needed and necessary storylines that should and need to be addressed on the reboot, but homosexuality is not one.

Allen is a known liberal, but I never viewed her as part of the extreme radical elite liberal part of the Black community.  Felicia Pride is definitely part of this fringe element within the Black community.

As to be expected, the homosexual community is high fiving all over the place.

According to Pride, “…This is the world we live in…That’s how I approach storytelling. It’s from a truth perspective. Queer people are all around us, and they need to be a part of our storytelling. So it was a no-brainer for us.”

Maleah Joi Moon, who plays Deborah Wayne, stated, “…We have fully embodied queer characters on this show so that everybody can feel represented…And I feel like that is something that we kinda toss to the wind a lot. But there is safety, and there is preciousness in representing people, and I think that’s a huge pillar of our show…”

This is why I am encouraging my followers to not watch this liberal garbage.

Renee Harrison’s character, Candace, was asked by one of her classmates how she juggled all of her responsibilities on campus.  Her response was repulsive, “…I have an unapologetic  commitment to being that bitch…”

Really?

So now Debbie Allen is promoting the rachet notion that a Black girl at a prestigious Black university thinks of herself as a bitch.  Really?  You put that on TV?

Where are the conservative voices on the show?  HBCUs were founded on the best traditions of the Black church, yet this founding principle is totally ignored in the reboot.

In the original show, there were real, honest debates from left to right on various topical issues of the day.

In the reboot, there is enough cleavage on this show to supply milk to the whole continent of Africa for years.  This never happened on the original show.

Bill Cosby, the creator of the original show, would never have allowed that to happen.  There are a couple of reasons why this type of buffoonery never happened on the Cosby Show or A Different World.

Cosby had a PhD in education; and second, he hired famed Black psychiatrist, Alvin Poussaint as a media consultant on scrips and storylines for both shows.

It seems like Allen hired Snoop Dog as her consultant!

Then when I did a little digging around and talked with some of my Hollywood friends about the reboot,  the reason for the shows radical extreme liberal foolishness became crystal clear.

Pride, along with Allen’s blessings stated the obvious, “…We had an all-Black writers room: seven writers plus myself, plus our support staff.  About half of the room went to HBCUs, a lot of D9 [Divine Nine sorority and fraternity] representation…We had an all-Black directing team that were all women and queer.”

As with most Black liberals, the goal of the show is not to produce great content for a great show, but to push a radical liberal extreme ideology upon the Black community.

Cosby and Poussaint would never have allowed the reboot to prostitute the integrity of the original show.

And let me say for the record, of all the work I have done with high profile people, I am most proud of my work with Bill and Camille Cosby during some of their most trying times of their lives.  And to see firsthand the number of prominent Blacks who turned their backs on them was disgusting, but I digress!!!

And to Jasmine Guy.  She is one of the sweetest, nicest people you will ever meet and know.  I will go through hell and back for her.  Nuf said!!!

Once again, Blacks have failed the Claudette Covin test.

Colvin was the Rosa Parks before Rosa Parks.  She could not become the face of the civil rights movement because she was a fifteen-year-old unmarried girl who was pregnant.

In other words, the Black community and its leaders enforced a standard within the Black community.  Not binding by force of law but binding by community standards that were self-imposed.

Blacks had to wait almost a year before Rosa Parks came along.

What is the Colvin test?

The Colvin test is when one has all the right skill set and background but is the wrong person for the mission at hand.  Legally, Colvin’s arrest for refusing to give up her seat had the same fact pattern as Rosa Parks’ case.

Debbie Allen and Felecia Pride are definitely not the right persons for the mission at hand, thus they failed the Colvin test.

The garbage they have put out with their reboot is a different world from where I come from!

Staff Writer; Raynard Jackson

RJ is a Pulitzer Award nominated columnist and President & CEO of Raynard Jackson & Associates, LLC, a Washington, DC based global public affairs consultancy.  Feel free to visit his website at: www.raynardjackson.com.  You can follow Raynard on Twitter @ RealRaynardJ or Gettr @ RaynardJackson.

They have reason to be excited about their prospects.

Let me state for the record that we Republicans do not deserve to be reelected to the majority in Congress in either body. Far too many of our candidates campaign as a conservatives and then vote as  liberals, but I digress.

To my giddy Democrat friends, allow me to pose a simple question.

When Democrats control Congress and or the White House, can you please point to any legislation specific to the Black community in general and Black entrepreneurs specifically that became law?

I will wait…

During the 117th Congress (January 3, 2021–January 3, 2023), the Democrats controlled the House with a majority, while the Senate was evenly split 50–50. Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris held the tiebreaking vote in the Senate, giving the party effective control of both chambers along with the House majority, where Nancy Pelosi was elected Speaker.

With Joe Biden occupying the White House, the Democrats controlled the whole of government like the Republicans do now.

During this 117th Congress, Blacks chaired several major committees:

Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) – Chair of the Financial Services Committee, Rep. Bobby Scott (D-VA) – Chair of the Education and Labor Committee, Rep. Gwen Moore (D-WI) – Chair of the House Budget Committee, Rep. Emanuel Cleaver II (D-MO) – Chair of the House Select Committee on HHS Oversight, Rep. Karen Bass (D-CA) – Chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Rep. David Scott (D-GA)—Chairman of Agriculture.

Blacks also chaired twenty-five subcommittees.

Name me one specific benefit to the Black community that was received as a direct result of having these people in positions of power and authority.

Name me one policy or law that was enacted to specifically benefit Black entrepreneurs.

Therefore, relative to the Black community, does it really matter who controls Congress?

Blacks give Democrats north of eighty percent of their vote during Congressional elections, with no corresponding return on their vote.

Can you make it make sense?

Is the symbolism of having a Black hold elective office more important than a specific agenda targeting the Black community, especially entrepreneurs?

Herein lies the problem.  Elite radical liberal Democrats want and expect Blacks to vote for them based on emotion, not policy.

When these Democrats go to the Hispanic community, they talk about amnesty for their family, citizenship, free housing, free medical services, free education and free money.

When these Democrats go to the homosexual community, they talk about people with mental issues playing in girls sports, free genital mutilation surgery, free drag queen shows for their children.

When these Democrats go to the Black community, they talk about slavery, hangings, smoking weed, dancing, voting rights; but never policy!

Voting for a Democrat is like peeing on yourself in a dark blue suit; it gives you a warm feeling but no one ever notices.

In my conversations with friends of mine who are members of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC), should they win the House in November, their top issues are:  impeaching Trump, investigating Trump’s businesses, free health care for illegals, etc.

So, again I ask what is the benefit of having a Black elected officials when they never address, let alone solve any problems of particular interest to the Black community?

Maxine Waters was Chair of the Financial Services Committee from 2019-2023, how did the Black community benefit? We are down to ten Black owned banks from a high a few years ago of over one hundred.  Bobby Scott was Chair of the Education and Labor Committee from 2021-2023, how did the Black community benefit?  How did Black colleges benefit?  David Scott was Chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee from 2021-2023 how did the Black community benefit?  How did Africa benefit?

Democrats have a plethora of Black elected officials from local, state, and federal offices with the Black community having nothing to show for it.

Republicans have few Black elected officials from local, state, and federal offices with the Black community having several substantive things to show for it—higher wages, more funding for HBCUs, lower crime rates to name a few.

I would submit to my readers that it is far more important to have fewer Black elected officials and get issues addressed that are of particular concern to the Black community, verses having more elected Black officials who have no plan to address specific issues impacting the Black community.

We must become more strategic with our vote and less emotional.

I had dinner with one of my buddies this morning, King Solomon, and he told me in Proverbs 4:7, “Wisdom is the principal thing, therefore get wisdom; and with all thy getting, get understanding.”

I challenge my followers to name me one Black organization that has a substantive plan that can be enacted by the next Congress that will address the high unemployment rate in the Black community; that will reconstitute the nuclear family; that will reduce out of wedlock childbirth; that will decrease Black on Black crime; that will spur entrepreneurship.

I will wait…

The NAACP, the National Urban League, the Congressional Black Caucus, the Black Economic Alliance all have plans, but they are not substantive, credible plans that will solve any of the problems facing the Black community.

Their plans are like the sounding brass or the tinkling cymbal; full of sound and fury signifying nothing.

Staff Writer; Raynard Jackson

RJ is a Pulitzer Award nominated columnist and President & CEO of Raynard Jackson & Associates, LLC, a Washington, DC based global public affairs consultancy.  Feel free to visit his website at: www.raynardjackson.com.  You can follow Raynard on Twitter @ RealRaynardJ or Gettr @ RaynardJackson.

Because my focus is on economic opportunities, most of the political meetings for my clients will be with Republicans; not because I am proselytizing, but because Democrats are anathema to entrepreneurship.

I cut my political teeth working for President George Herbert Walker Bush in my twenties and was particularly close to his Secretary of Commerce, Robert Mosbacher.

For someone who grew up in the hood of St. Louis, I have had a good life and have become friends with some very influential people.

There is no way anyone could have predicted that I would have a sitting Treasury Secretary, Scott Bessent, as a personal friend who will do anything to help small businesses grow.

Secretary Bessent asked me to join his family during his confirmation hearing before the U.S. Senate last year.

Upon confirmation, one of his first meetings as newly minted Treasury Secretary was to meet with twenty of my entrepreneurs to let them know that they have a friend in him.

I have known Acting Secretary of Labor, Keith Sonderling for many years and similarly to Secretary Bessent, he is a friend of small business.

A few weeks ago I was sharing with Sonderling the frustration many of my entrepreneurs were expressing to me about their voices not being heard on policy issues within the Trump administration.

His immediate response was, “how can I help.”

He then asked if I would be willing to organize a group of small businesses to meet with him to discuss their concerns with an eye towards connecting them to the appropriate people so that their voices are heard when it comes to policy discussions.

Last week I organized a roundtable with the acting secretary and fifteen small business owners from manufacturing, the Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen, educators, labor lawyers, etc.

Acting secretary Sonderling made it perfectly clear to me and his senior staff that he was not interested in having a “courtesy” meeting or a photo-op.  He wanted to hear our concerns and address each concern with a specific solution.

That was music to my ears!

Not only did the acting secretary meet with us, but he had the head of every agency within Labor participate in the roundtable.

One of the highlights of the meeting was to see the interaction between Sonderling and the president of Hampton University, Lt. Gen. (Ret.) Darrell K. Williams.

Hampton University is one of the preeminent Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) in the country.

Even though they are a university, they also have a vocational education component within the university that peaked the acting secretary’s interest.

Gen. Williams invited Sonderling to visit the campus and without missing a beat, the acting secretary accepted.

The date is being worked out.

There is no record of a sitting Labor Secretary ever visiting the campus of a HBCU.  When I texted the acting secretary this message, his response was, “I’ll be the first!”

The historic nature of the planned visit is nice, but the most important thing is it is the right thing to do!!!

Would it not be the irony of all ironies that the first sitting Labor Secretary to visit an HBCU will be part of the Trump administration?

This is why when extreme radical Black liberal Democrats call President Trump a racist it does not stick.

How am I able to navigate MAGA at the highest levels and produce results for my entrepreneurs if the administration is racist?

The bigger problem I am discovering is how many of the media appointed leaders or “he-ders” of the Black community do not know how to properly navigate within the world of power.

I have always had access, but did not always understand how to use my access.

If a Black person is in a position of power and authority and does not understand how to use that power and authority, how can that be racist or white supremacy?

There are currently sixty-two members of the Congressional Black Caucus between the House and the Senate.  There is only one person who definitely has made a lasting legislative mark during their term in Congress.

That would be former Congressman from Baltimore, Parren Mitchell.  He is considered the Godfather of Black business.  He was and is legendary as chairman of the Committee on Small Business in the eighties.  His impact is still being felt today.

You have more Black elected officials today than at any time in our nation’s history, but all the economic indices are negative for the Black community.

As of 2025, there are 66 Black voting members in the U.S. Congress, including four Black senators, one Black governor, and about 10% of state legislators are Black.

Sixty-two are Democrats and five are Republicans.

At the state level, about 10% of state legislators are Black as of 2021.

There are over six hundred and forty-one Black mayors across the U.S.

During the 117^th Congress (January 3, 2021–January 3, 2023), the Democrats controlled the House with a majority, while the Senate was evenly split 50–50. Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris held the tiebreaking vote in the Senate, giving the party effective control of both chambers along with the House majority, where Nancy Pelosi was elected Speaker.

During the 117^th Congress, Blacks chaired several major committees:

Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) – Chair of the Financial Services Committee, Rep. Bobby Scott (D-VA) – Chair of the Education and Labor Committee, Rep. Gwen Moore (D-WI) – Chair of the House Budget Committee, Rep. Emanuel Cleaver II (D-MO) – Chair of the House Select Committee on HHS Oversight, Rep. Karen Bass (D-CA) – Chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Rep. David Scott (D-GA)—Chairman of Agriculture.

Blacks also chaired twenty-five subcommittees.

Name me one specific benefit to the Black community that was received as a direct result of having these people in positions of power and authority.

I do not want to hear about people of color!  I asked specifically about Blacks!

Along with having all these Blacks occupying positions of power comes control of budgets.  Can someone show me a straight line from these members chairmanship and an infusion of funds into the Black community?

You had a Black, Rep. Scott, in control of the House Agriculture Committee, but the Black farmers fared no better with him than they did when a white person was chairman.

You had a Black, Rep. Waters, in control of the House Financial Services Committee, but Black entrepreneurs  fared no better with her than they did when a white person was chairman when it came to access to capital.

Make it make sense.

It is undeniable that Blacks seem to make more progress when Republicans are in control than when Democrats are in power.

That is why it is so ironic that we are about to make history with the Acting Secretary of Labor by having him visit Hampton University.

Trump and his administration continue to make history with the Black community and my job is to continue to make sure it is publicly known!

Staff Writer; Raynard Jackson

RJ is a Pulitzer Award nominated columnist and President & CEO of Raynard Jackson & Associates, LLC, a Washington, DC based global public affairs consultancy.  Feel free to visit his website at: www.raynardjackson.com.  You can follow Raynard on Twitter @ RealRaynardJ or Gettr @ RaynardJackson.

Last week’s column titled, “Black People Have Ninety-Nine Problems, but Donald Trump Ain’t One,” put me in the crosshairs of the bourgeoisie, the talented tenth, and the boule all at the same time.  Click the above link to read what I wrote.

I received tons of calls and emails from the guilty parties and they were not happy.  They could not refute what I wrote, they just did not like the fact that I called them out, many by name.

As I wrote last week, they are at Martha’s Vineyard sipping on the best of champagne, caviar, and steaks while complaining about how racist America is.

After being inundated with these calls, I reached out to a dear friend, King Solomon and we discussed this issue over dinner.  He said to me, “…Where there is no vision, the people perish…”  This is one of my favorite scriptures found in Proverbs 29:18.

Therein lies the problem with the Black community—no vision.  As a matter of fact, the only vision these media appointed Black leaders have is the television!

After this conversation with King Solomon, I received one of the most astonishing, ignorant, and sad emails that goes to the heart of what I wrote last week.

The email came from one of these media appointed Black leaders and their radical liberal Democrat organization.

The email claimed that, “climate change is among the top five most important issues America currently faces.”

You cannot make this up.  On what planet is climate change in the top one hundred issues facing America, let alone Black America?

The email went on to argue that this issue is top of mind within the Black community, with no evidence provided.

This bizarre statement was made by radical liberal Black Democrat mayor of Flint, Michigan, Sheldon Neeley.

Oh, it gets better.

In the same article, radical liberal Black mayor of Baltimore, Brandon Scott stated, “Even though we have an administration [referring to the Trump administration] that doesn’t even believe that climate change is real, we’re smart and we know that it is real.”

Saying it is so does not make it so.  There was absolutely no shred of evidence provided.

Scott is also president of the African American Mayors Association (AAMA).  They claim to represent the 641 African American mayors of the AAMA, an organization that grew out of the 50-year-old National Conference of Black Mayors, which merged with the AAMA in 2016.  These Black mayors supposedly  represent 48 million citizens across the country.

These mayors and their organization have rampant crime in their cities, high unemployment, alarming teenage pregnancy, no job creation, out of control homelessness and drug addiction and they are talking about climate change?

You cannot make this stuff up.

Name me one city in the U.S. that is led by a radical liberal Black Democrat where Black kids are reading and mathing at grade level; where crime is under control; where teenage pregnancy is not an issue; where unemployment is low; or where crime is low.

I dare you!

Name me one piece of substantive legislation that has ever been written and passed by a member of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) that benefited the Black community!

They have been around for fifty-five years and have not one accomplishment to their name.  NOT ONE!!!

They currently have sixty-two members, the largest in their history; but have nothing to show for their fifty-five-year history.  They have the largest voting block in Congress, but somehow never manages to get any legislation passed that directly benefits the Black community.

The Asian and Hispanic caucuses seem to get bills passed that specifically benefits their communities even though they have fewer members than the CBC.

Go figure.  Oh, my bad.  It is because of Donald Trump, racism, and the legacy of slavery.  My apologies.

This lack of any sensible vision and agenda is doing more harm to the Black community than anything Trump could ever imagine doing if you subscribe to the unfounded notion that he is a racist.

These Black mayors have no money to improve education in their cities, but they have unlimited money to educate, house and feed those in the country illegally.

Scott, mayor of Baltimore, pats himself on the back for ramming through a bill in his city council to mandate electric vehicles by 2030, while Blacks face a failing healthcare system in his city.

Hey, but they will have zero pollution emitting cars.

Racism and Donlad Trump are not responsible for bad policy being force fed into the Black community by these radical liberal Black Democrat elected officials!!!

Last June, the Supreme Court upheld state laws banning boys from playing in girls sports in the Little v. Hecox case.  Here is the response from the radical liberal Democrat socialist controlled NAACP, “The NAACP condemns the Supreme Court’s decision in Little v. Hecox, upholding state laws banning transgender youth athletes from competing in sports that align with individual identity. This ruling does not protect fairness. It targets children. And it sends a dangerous message to every trans young person in America: that the highest court in the land does not acknowledge their full humanity.”

Click on the link to read the entire statement.  It will turn your stomach.  When did transsexuality become a Black issue?

These media appointed Black leaders and organizations continue to make other people’s issues our issues; and they wonder why Blacks ignore them.

The NAACP has not issued one statement about the Black-on-Black killings in Chicago, Baltimore, DC, or St. Louis.

They have not issued one statement about the number of Blacks who have been killed, raped, or maimed by those in the country illegally; but they want Blacks to feel sorry for Trump sending Haitians and Syrians back to their countries because their Temporary Protection Status (TPS) has ended?

Really?

Weak people take strong positions on weak issues.

Black folks have ninety-nine problems, and they are one!

Staff Writer; Raynard Jackson

This talented brother is a Pulitzer Award nominated columnist and founder and chairman of Black Americans for a Better Future (BAFBF), a federally registered 527 Super PAC established to get more Blacks involved in the Republican Party. BAFBF focuses on the Black entrepreneur. For more information about BAFBF, visit www.bafbf.org. You can follow Raynard on Twitter; RealRaynardJ; on Gettr: RaynardJackson.

Can also drop him an email at; RaynardJ@ThyBlackMan.com.

This annual pilgrimage to Martha’s Vineyard and more specifically, The Inkwell is as predictable as Democrats ignoring the Black vote.

Martha’s Vineyard is a 112 square mile island in Massachusetts, known for its mix of coastal beauty, historic towns, and cultural heritage. The Inkwell (officially Town Beach) is a specific, historically significant beach in Oak Bluffs, MA, on the island, celebrated for its role in Black history.

Martha’s Vineyard is a summer resort destination with a rich history dating back to the 18th century when Methodist and Baptist revivals drew visitors. It has evolved from whaling, brickmaking, and farming into a scenic, cultural hub with towns like Oak Bluffs, Edgartown, and Falmouth. The island offers beaches, historic sites, art galleries, and seasonal events, and it has a diverse cultural fabric.

The Inkwell is a small, sandy stretch of beach in Oak Bluffs, MA near the ferry terminal, popular for its gentle waves and central location. Its name comes from a derogatory nickname used in the late 1800s for the Black community that frequented it.

Blacks began visiting the Inkwell during the Great Migration, attracted by Oak Bluffs’ openness during this time of segregation.

The Great Migration, sometimes known as the Great Northward Migration or the Black Migration, was the movement of six million Black Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West between 1910 and 1970.

In 1912, Charles and Henrietta Shearer opened the first Black owned inn on the island, catering to Black vacationers.

And the rest, as they say, is history.

I had the fortune of knowing many of the legendary families who were foundational to the Inkwell.  The ones I knew are all dead, but sitting at their feet and learning history from their lived experiences was phenomenal.

When these very wealthy, successful, influential Blacks made their annual August trek to the Inkwell it was not only for vacation, but also to discuss solutions to what ailed the Black community.  Let me reiterate—SOLUTIONS, not complaints about white folks.

They did not spend their precious time talking about how racist presidents like Roosevelt, Truman Eisenhower, Nixon, Kennedy, or LBJ were.  They believed in the Colin Powell doctrine of “constructive engagement.”

These Oldtimers from the Inkwell believed in talking through their disagreements with people in power, both Democrats and Republicans.

They were focused on solutions that would make life better for the whole of the Black community; not simply flexing and self-congratulating each other about their latest material purchases—their new vacation home, their new Rolls Royce, or their latest million-dollar contribution to the boule!!!

I have had many opportunities to go to the Vineyard, but up now have refused all offers because I have to be in a certain mental frame of mind to be around these types of arrogant, uppity Black folks.

I am not there yet.

I know many who are about to make this annual pilgrimage.

These are the who’s who of corporate, political, and Black high society in America.  These are some of the highest-level executives in Fortune 500 companies.  These are some of the most successful entrepreneurs in America.

They are the talented tenth, the bourgeoisie, and the boule.

The talented tenth was made famous by W.E.B. Du Bois, a prominent Black historian and civil rights legend from the early nineteen hundreds.

In his 1903 essay The Talented Tenth, Du Bois argued,  “That for the Black community to rise from the vestiges of slavery and systemic oppression, a small group of the most talented and educated individuals must be trained as leaders, intellectuals, and professionals…They are supposed to serve as role models, uplift the masses and advocate for civil rights, education and political participation.”

Du Bois would be very disappointed that the opposite is occurring today.

The bourgeoisie and the boule will use the occasion of this annual tradition to pair off their young adult children with what they deem to be suitable potential spouses for marriage.  They want to keep their bloodlines pure, socially, financially, and politically.

There will be multiple millions of dollars spent during the month of August on hotels, housing, and exotic catered parties to talk about how bad America is!

There will be no mention of the steady Black on Black killings in Chicago, Baltimore, New York City, or St. Louis; there will be no mention of the out of control out of wedlock birthrates in our community. Despite their protestations to the contrary, these pathologies have nothing to do with Donald Trump, racism or poverty.

It has everything to do with the destruction of the Black family and more specifically the Black male.  The supposed talented tenth do not want to have the discussion about how these radical liberal Democrat policies have and are continuing to destroy the very group they claim to speak for and represent.

There will be no mention of how illegal immigrants are devastating the Black community with murder, increased housing cost, and rising unemployment.

But there will be sunup to sundown conversation about how racist Donald Trump is; how America is racist towards Blacks, and how the legacy of slavery is at the root of all that ails the Black community.

The founders of the Inkwell would be totally ashamed of the state of the Black community today.  They had less opportunity in their time but lived a better quality of life than we are living today.

Make it make sense!!!

Today’s Blacks are doing very well financially, but I would argue that we have a lower quality of life than our forefathers.

We have more material possessions, but our families are in an alarming state of dysfunctionality.

Our sons are suffering from major mental diseases like thinking they can become girls; and their parents are co-signing on this foolishness.  Ask Earvin Johnson and Dwyane Wade.

Our daughters may as well be high-class streetwalkers.  But this would be an insult to real streetwalkers.  Ask Angel Reese and Tyla!

These elite Blacks are overwhelmingly radical liberal Democrats who refuse to engage in the politics of self-interest versus simply following Democrat Party orthodoxy.

These Blacks do more harm to our community than anyone with a white sheet over their face.

I challenge my readers to name me one “media approved” Black organization that is making a meaningful difference in the Black community.

It surely is not radical liberal groups like the NAACP (The National Association for the Advancement of Certain People), the National Action Network (the National Reaction Network), the National Urban League (the National Disturbing League), the Black Economic Alliance (the Lack of Economic Alliance), the Congressional Black Caucus (the Con Black Caucus), the National Association of Black Journalists (the National Association of Whack Journalists), to name a few.

The Black community is always REACTING to change; they are never the change.  Blacks are living in a digital world but operating with analog thinking.

These media appointed Black organizations and their leaders refuse to think new thoughts.  Liberal approaches to business, government, civil society is over, dead, finished.

Whether you like it or not, the U.S. and the world is slowing drifting back to a slightly right of center mindset.  The dead body of liberalism is already at the funeral home; the funeral simply has yet to take place.

We have had sixty years of liberal policies unleashed on America and well over twenty trillion dollars spent on various social experiments and they have failed.

The challenge for Black folks is how can and or they willing to craft solutions to the problems that ail the Black community from a right of center perspective?

What does that picture look like and or they willing to form alliances with people like me who have a proven track record of navigating the halls of power at the highest levels?

Black folks have ninety-nine problems but Trump ain’t one!

Staff Writer; Raynard Jackson

This talented brother is a Pulitzer Award nominated columnist and founder and chairman of Black Americans for a Better Future (BAFBF), a federally registered 527 Super PAC established to get more Blacks involved in the Republican Party. BAFBF focuses on the Black entrepreneur. For more information about BAFBF, visit www.bafbf.org. You can follow Raynard on Twitter; RealRaynardJ; on Gettr: RaynardJackson.

Can also drop him an email at; RaynardJ@ThyBlackMan.com.

]]> https://thyblackman.com/2026/08/01/donald-trump-is-not-what-ails-the-black-community/feed/ 3 https://thyblackman.com/2026/07/25/black-masculinity-lost-age-internet-beefs/ https://thyblackman.com/2026/07/25/black-masculinity-lost-age-internet-beefs/#comments Sat, 25 Jul 2026 07:23:00 +0000 https://thyblackman.com/?p=141579 (ThyBlackMan.com) If you are of a certain age, you were told growing up that, “Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.”

The earliest known public use of this proverb or adage was on March 22, 1862, in The Christian Recorder newspaper.

The Christian Recorder is the oldest existing periodical published by Blacks in the United States.  It had its genesis in The Christian Herald, which was established by the African Methodist Episcopal Church’s (AME) General Conference that was held in Philadelphia in 1848. Founded by Rev. Augustus R. Green in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, The Christian Herald was published weekly with subscribers paying one dollar and fifty cents a year.

The Recorder is a publication of the AME Church.  The AME Church was founded by Richard Allen who also served as its first bishop.

The name of The Christian Herald was changed to The Christian Recorder at the Ninth Quadrennial Session of the General Conference held in 1852 in New York City. The first issue was published and disseminated on July 1, 1852. The first editor of The Christian Recorder was the Reverend M. M. Clark, who was one of the first college graduates in the African Methodist Episcopal Church. Clark was a graduate of Jefferson College and was considered to be one of the best-educated men in the A.M.E. Church. He wrote that the Recorder’s focus would be religion, morality, science and literature and it was to treat all geographical areas of the A.M.E. Church equally.

With the rise of social media and the insatiable demand by many people to have their “fifteen minutes of fame,” otherwise masculine men have been reduced to the most feminine of traits that are stereotypically reserved for women; that is being chatty, katty and batty (crazy)!

What am I talking about?

Let me give you a few examples.

Earlier this month, ESPN personality, Stephen Smith interrupted his vacation to find a studio so he could respond to what he perceived as negative comments made about him from four-time NBA champion for the Golden State Warriors, Draymond Green and radical liberal Democrat activist Jemele Hill.

Yes, you heard me correctly.  A grown man interrupted his vacation because his feelings were hurt.

There is definitely nothing masculine about this type of immature behavior.

He sought out a makeshift studio he could use to put out his response almost in real time.  This was something I would have thought a woman would have done simply because they tend to be more emotional than men, er “real men.”

This was the reaction of a grown man who is supposed to be educated and sophisticated, but because of the sticks and stones syndrome he was reduced to a very feminine reaction.

Smith is fifty-eight years old; Green is thirty-six years old and Hill is fifty years old.  This is how the internet has made grown folks act like little children and these two men in particular come across as very effeminate.

To watch the video of Smith’s cringeworthy response to Green and Hill on his podcast, Straight Shooter, click on the link.  Make sure you have your popcorn in hand!

Remember, this man interrupted his vacation to respond to this juvenile banter!

This is beyond sad on so many levels!

Another example that proves my point is the asinine beef between former NFLer and Hall of Famer, Shannon Sharpe and comedian Mike Epps.

Sharpe is fifty-eight years old and Epps is fifty-five years old.  What led to the beef?  Hold on to your hat for this one.

During one of his comedy shows, Epps insinuated that Sharpe was gay.  Sharpe in turn threatened to reveal private text exchanges between the two of them, implying the release would embarrass Epps.

This turned into a series of negative, vitriolic social media posts going back and forth culminating in Epps appearing on Sharpe’s podcast to squash the beef.

Where is the masculinity in this type of he said she said behavior?

This is the behavior of little kids in primary school.  But you have fifty-year-olds who have massive platforms publicly behaving in such a juvenile, effeminate manner.

There are a plethora of other examples involving rappers, actors, politicians, and yes, even preachers.

In my day, rarely would one fight someone over words, unless you invoked the word “yo mama.”  Mothers were totally off limits, they were sacred.

You could talk about someone’s father, but not their mother.  That was a bright red line that was never to be crossed.

In my day, confrontation, verbal or physical, was used as a last resort; when everything else had failed.  You were viewed as a man when you could avoid or deescalate conflict.

Now everyone is performing for the cameras, i.e. social media in order to collect likes, shares, and followers.

I am still mystified by the fact that adults today are so quick to engage in arguments with people on social media that they have never met and do not have any relationship with.

Whenever someone states that, “I am a man, I am a real man;” then they are not a man.  Manhood is not spoken, it is displayed.  You do not have to scream about your manhood, it just goes without saying.

Denzel Washington once told me, “The loudest one in the room is the weakest.”

If you have ever been around Denzel, you know he never “enters” a room; he walks into a room.  I will let you marinate on that one for a while.

Influence and fame are like soap, the more you use them the less you have.

So, to all these supposed alpha males with their faux hypermasculinity, STOP IT!!!!

No one takes you seriously, let alone anyone in a position of power or influence.

Have you noticed that most, if not all, of the people involved in these internet beefs have few if any corporate endorsement deals?

With a few exceptions, corporate America does not reward masculinity anymore; they reward Blacks who are very effeminate.  Think about it.

Their goal is to continue to weaken the family unit.  What better way to accomplish this than by emasculating the Black male.

Once that happens, the takeover of our community is complete.

Black men cannot continue to succumb to the radical liberal feminist agenda from the seventies.  This was the beginning of the destruction of the Black family and the total emasculation of the Black male.

Even Black women are describing masculine males as toxic.

Most of the males you see in all these internet beefs are single/divorced; have tenuous relationships with their children and are more accepted by the white community than by the Black community.

Now let that sink in!

Until Black men regain their masculinity, the Black community will continue this downward spiral into destruction and irrelevance.  Black masculine males have become an endangered species.

You cannot show me one thriving community without a strong, masculine male present.

God put man at the center of a functioning society and this radical liberal feminist push to marginalize the role of the male only assures continued upheaval; especially within the Black community.

Staff Writer; Raynard Jackson

This talented brother is a Pulitzer Award nominated columnist and founder and chairman of Black Americans for a Better Future (BAFBF), a federally registered 527 Super PAC established to get more Blacks involved in the Republican Party. BAFBF focuses on the Black entrepreneur. For more information about BAFBF, visit www.bafbf.org. You can follow Raynard on Twitter; RealRaynardJ; on Gettr: RaynardJackson.

Can also drop him an email at; RaynardJ@ThyBlackMan.com.

]]> https://thyblackman.com/2026/07/25/black-masculinity-lost-age-internet-beefs/feed/ 1 https://thyblackman.com/2026/07/15/women-do-not-have-a-right-to-be-believed-without-evidence/ https://thyblackman.com/2026/07/15/women-do-not-have-a-right-to-be-believed-without-evidence/#respond Wed, 15 Jul 2026 06:05:05 +0000 https://thyblackman.com/?p=141472 (ThyBlackMan.com) Women who make charges of rape should not be believed.  They should be given an opportunity to present their facts to law enforcement and if warranted, be able to have the evidence judged by a jury of their peers.

Women lie.  Let me repeat, women lie like every other human.  You do not believe me?

Ask the Duke LaCrosse players from 2006.

Crystal Mangum, a former stripper and convicted murderer, accused three former Duke University lacrosse players — Reade Seligmann, Collin Finnerty, and David Evans — of raping her at a party.  The Duke students were exonerated, but where do they go to get their reputations back?

Radical liberal Democrat, Mike Nifong was disbarred after serving as the Durham County District Attorney in North Carolina. He was removed from his position, disbarred, and briefly jailed following court findings concerning his conduct in the Duke lacrosse rape hoax. Among other wrongdoings, he was found to have conspired with the DNA lab director to withhold exculpatory DNA evidence that would have exonerated the defendants

As Democrats are wont to do, he used the racial dynamics of the case to win reelection as District Attorney before he was removed from office.  The stripper was Black and the lacrosse players where white.

Ask current Supreme Court Justice, Brett Kavanaugh.  During his Supreme Court confirmation hearings, Kavanaugh faced allegations of sexual misconduct from Christine Blasey Ford. After an extensive investigation, no corroborating evidence was found, and Kavanaugh was confirmed.

She was also found to be lying.  Again, where does Kavanaugh go to get his reputation back?

Ask current Supreme Court Justice, Clarence Thomas.  I was personally involved in helping him win senate confirmation to the U.S. Supreme Court in 1991.  My connection to this case was multifaceted.

I am from St. Louis and my then long-time senator, John Danforth was Thomas’ sponsor for the Supreme Court nomination made by former President George H.W. Bush, whom I worked for.

Thomas’ nomination came as a result of the retirement of the first Black Supreme Court Justice, Thurgood Marshall.

I had known Sen. Danforth since my high school days at Soldan High School.

Thomas was accused by radical liberal activist Anita Hill of sexual harassment, without evidence.  I had known Anita Hill since our days at Oral Roberts University.  Suffice it to say that she would have never won the “Miss Virtuous Award” on campus!

The way the Democrats handled and mishandled the myriad allegations surrounding former Maine U.S. Senate candidate is simply a continuation of the radical liberal playbook when it comes to women and alleged sexual misconduct.

What do all of Graham Platner’s accusers have in common? They all lied!!  None of them have produced any evidence of rape or assault.

It is a binary choice.  Either you have evidence or you do not!!!

An accusation is not evidence.  None of these women filed police reports, so therefore there was no rape!

Republicans and conservatives should tread lightly on this faux righteous indignation about this Platner situation.

Women DO NOT have a right to be believed.

If I am hanging out with my boys in my mancave discussing Platner, he is guilty as hell; but in the court of law it is not what you know, it is what you can prove!!!

Women do not have a right to be believed.  They have a right to be judged by a jury of their peers.  Nothing more.  Nothing less.

This is not the nineteen fifties where women were routinely ignored and told to sit down and shut up.  The balance of justice has shifted from ignoring women to every woman should be believed.  We must get back to the rule of law, not the rule of feelings.

Platner should not have been forced to remove his name from the ballot last week.  There is no evidence of wrongdoing by him towards these opportunistic woman who were seeking their proverbial fifteen minutes of fame.

Another fascinating angle to the Platner story is how Democrat organization refused to ask these opportunistic women any probing questions.  Democrat organizations like CNN, MS NOW, NPR, Politico, The New York Times, 60 Minutes, etc., never explored why these women came forward after years of keeping quiet.

Accuser Jenny Racicot stated, “One of the reasons I didn’t come forward sooner was, the huge moral conflict that I had between supporting his politics, but not supporting him as a person…I just want the truth out there. I just want people to have a whole scope of who he is as a person.”

So, let I get this straight, if Platner had decided to remain a private citizen and not seek public office, she would have taken her made-up story to her grave?

Accuser Lyndsey Fifield stated that part of why she kept quiet is because she agrees with Platner’s politics.

Her own words.  You cannot make this up!!!

I have a thousand dollars to anyone who can offer up one shred of evidence provided by any of Platner accusers that is admissible in a court of law.

To all the women out there who are going to send me all sorts of unhinged emotional rants in disagreement to this column; please sit down and shut up.

If something bad happens to you and you do not file a police report, then it never happened.  So, do not wait for your fifteen minutes of fame opportunity and expect an outpouring of support from the public because it is not going to happen.

Stop letting the radical liberal Democrat Party and their media sycophants continue to use you for their political gain.

If you do not report your allegation to law enforcement in real time, please do not report them in the court of public opinion and expect to find a sympathetic ear.

You women should never be believed, but rather you should be given an opportunity to submit your evidence and let the legal process sort out your allegations.

You women claim you want fairness and equality.  Now you have it.

Staff Writer; Raynard Jackson

This talented brother is a Pulitzer Award nominated columnist and founder and chairman of Black Americans for a Better Future (BAFBF), a federally registered 527 Super PAC established to get more Blacks involved in the Republican Party. BAFBF focuses on the Black entrepreneur. For more information about BAFBF, visit www.bafbf.org. You can follow Raynard on Twitter; RealRaynardJ; on Gettr: RaynardJackson.

Can also drop him an email at; RaynardJ@ThyBlackMan.com.

Politically, I consider him a liberal, though he would argue the point, but I digress.

He wanted to know my thoughts about ESPN sports commentator, Stephen A. Smith.

Smith and I travel in the same circles, but he has yet to have the pleasure of meeting me.  I find this amazing since we have actually been at several events at the same time.

But as usual, all things in due season.

My thoughts on Smith are based on my personal observations, conversations with industry insiders and those who have personal relationships with him.

My primary and most important thought on Smith is that he is greatly OVEREXPOSED!  Last time I checked, he was not Jamaican, but yet he has a million jobs.

He has shows on ESPN, YouTube, XM Sirius.  He is constantly being interviewed in one media format or another.

For those who do not know, I make a living by helping high profile people navigate all things media.

Smith’s trajectory is unsustainable and unnecessary.

I am not one to count other people’s money, but if media accounts are accurate, he recently signed a deal with ESPN that made him one of the highest paid individuals in sports media.  Included in his deal is the right to have his own production company and produce outside content that is not owned by ESPN.

This is not an uncommon arrangement with elite entertainers like him, but it is unnecessary.  At this point it is all about ego.  He is definitely not worried about paying his light bills every month.

I have had many clients go down this path and all have been destroyed by the ego associated with drinking from the cup of fortune and fame.

I tell every one of my clients, “Fortune and fame is like soap, the more you use it, the less you have.”

My advice to Smith is to focus on being even better on ESPN and not dilute his talents by being spread too thin.

A few outside projects every now and then is OK, but I see and hear him way too much.  When was the last time you heard the name Lizzo?  She is exhibit A in overexposure and then puuuffffff!

And this idiotic talk about him running for president?  Boy, please!!!

I understand why he is promoting and encouraging this type of speculation, but it will prove to be counter-productive to his brand.

One of the most insidious down sides of social media is that in order to continue to get subscribers, likes, and followers, you must constantly feed the beast!

How do you feed the beast?  Controversy!

You have to constantly engage in petty online fights with high profile people who you have never met or create show topics involving the underbelly of race, homosexuality, or sex.  The bigger you get, the more extreme your behavior must be.

Podcasters Joe Rogan and Jordan Peterson are two exceptions to this rule.  They are so genuine and substantive in their content that there is no need for them to play the fool for clicks and likes.  They feed the beast with their substance and it works for them.

If Smith were totally focused on his role with ESPN there would be no need for him to get into public pissing matches with people like former ESPN colleague, Jason Whitlock.

I have never nor will I ever understand how adults can get into a public feud with people that have absolutely no contact with their lives.  All parties come out looking like fools.

But this childish behavior feeds the beast.

Again, I do understand why Smith is encouraging this talk about running for president.  In political circles he is mocked and ridiculed because he is not a well-read person and it shows.

Smith reminds me of people like Jasmine Crockett, LeBron James, Steve Kerr to name a few.  Just because you have a platform to speak from does not mean you need to comment on everything.

Sometimes silence is the loudest statement one can make.

I have heard Smith pontificate on political issues that made me cringe.

Solomon once told me in Proverbs 4:7, “Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding.”

It is not enough for someone like Smith to quote statistics, though sometimes they come in handy.  He needs to be able to demonstrate that he has the understanding to go along with the statistics.

He who knows how will always have a job.  He who knows why will always be his boss.

There is no question that Smith has the how down pat.  He is a very intelligent person, but he needs to do much better on the why part.

He has carved out a niche for himself in media and he should be proud of his accomplishments.  He has worked his butt off and deserves all the accolades and money he can get.

But he must not lose focus on what got him to this point in his career—sports.  Not politics, pop culture, or foreign affairs.

My friend I was having dinner with finally told me why he had a sudden interest in my views of Smith.  For various reasons he assumed that I had a personal relationship with Smith and he trusted me to deliver a discreet message to him.

The top executives at ESPN also think that Smith is doing too much but they are afraid to have this conversation with him because they are terrified of any possible racial implications that could end up in a lawsuit.

This is what America has come to when it comes to race relations.  A major company like ESPN and its white executives are too afraid to have a man-to-man conversation with one of their top employees because he is Black.

Stephen, we have many mutual friends and so I am quite sure this column will somehow get to you.

I do not know if you have surrounded yourself with people who tell you what you want to hear or those who tell you what you need to hear.  Far too often it is the former and not the latter.

My unsolicited advice to you is to get back to your first love—sports journalism.  This social media is going to further damage your brand.  I think you are better than that.

With your production company, I would love to see you do documentaries and in-depth feature reporting.  Social media could be used to compliment this long form of journalism.

This will also make you more valuable to ESPN.

Social media is like the tinkling cymbal or the sounding brass full of sound and fury signifying nothing.

I can easily see you being a billion-dollar enterprise if you get back to your roots and not try to be all things to all men.

Stay thirsty my friend.

Staff Writer; Raynard Jackson

This talented brother is a Pulitzer Award nominated columnist and founder and chairman of Black Americans for a Better Future (BAFBF), a federally registered 527 Super PAC established to get more Blacks involved in the Republican Party. BAFBF focuses on the Black entrepreneur. For more information about BAFBF, visit www.bafbf.org. You can follow Raynard on Twitter; RealRaynardJ; on Gettr: RaynardJackson.

Can also drop him an email at; RaynardJ@ThyBlackMan.com.

It was always about the marketing and promotion of the homosexual agenda.  It was a brilliant move at first glance; but as with all things liberal, the NBA (the men’s league) and liberals took it too far!

Most, if not all of the major sports leagues are controlled and run by radical liberals and David Stern was no exception.

Stern was born in New Jersey and spent all of his life between there and New York City, both being the bastions of liberalism.

Stern became commissioner of the NBA in 1984.  During this time the NBA TV ratings were plummeting,  the NBA had an image problem—it had become too “ghettoized,” and the league had several high-profile drug issues with prominent players.

In other words, the NBA was damaged goods in the eyes of the corporate community, i.e., advertisers and Stern’s immediate mandate was to rehabilitate the NBA’s image.

TV viewership was down, games were broadcast on tape delay, not live like it is today and corporate sponsors made it clear to Stern that they thought the league was “too Black.”

The final assessment by the new NBA commissioner was that they must find a way to make the NBA more appealing to females because their corporate underwriters were very keen on this demographic.

Before Stern could focus on the creation of the WNBA, he had to first clean up all the other issues negatively impacting the NBA.

And guess who was the point person for the creation of the WNBA?  None other than the current commissioner of the NBA, Adam Silver.

Welllll, isn’t that special?

Silver was the executive in charge under Stern for the WNBA’s creation from concept to launch.  Like Stern, Silver comes from an ultra-liberal background.

They both saw the NBA and the WNBA as the perfect vehicles to promote their socialist agenda of “equality,” for “marginalized communities,” especially females!

Of all the professional sports leagues, the NBA is by far the most radically liberal.

During his last few years of being commissioner, David Stern had been putting immense pressure on the WNBA to become profitable or he would shutter the league.

It should come as no surprise that the NBA’s most recent collective bargaining agreement (CBA) from 2023 forced advertisers to include the WNBA or there would be no deal.

While the NBA CBA did not explicitly force WNBA advertisers to include the WNBA, the CBA’s economic and branding effects have strengthened the WNBA’s position as a valuable co-branded partner, making it more common for advertisers to include it in campaigns that span both leagues.

The WNBA recently signed their new CBA deal based on the coercion the NBA used to help them artificially inflate their TV rights and advertising deals with various NBA sponsors.

In its nearly thirty years of existence, the WNBA has never made a profit.  But liberals have a history of tolerating financial loses as the cost of promoting their radical agenda, in this case the homosexual movement.

This radical agenda is why parents en masse refuse to take their children to a WNBA game or watch it on TV.  Most parents refuse to expose their children to this radical agenda.

When Stern became commissioner, he was surrounded by closeted homosexual executives who became emboldened to come out of the closet under Sterns’ leadership.  Under Silver coming out of the closet was put on steroids.

Recent polling data shows that the aggressive promotion of the radical homosexual agenda in sports in particular and society in general is becoming less accepted by the public.

Corporate support for homosexual activities is drying up because this radical agenda is negatively impacting their profits.  How did things work out for Target and Anheuser Busch?

Consistent with liberals being willing to lose money to promote a cause that is antithetical to America it should not be a surprise that the one person who is a God send to the WNBA is being roundly rejected by league officials and its players.

I am speaking about none other than WNBA sensation Caitlin Clark.  Because she is a heterosexual white girl from a two-parent home, has no tattoos and has a boyfriend she has basically been ostracized within the league.

The league and her team, the Indiana Fever refuse to include her in league or team marketing materials even though she is by far the most popular female athlete in the world, not just the U.S.

Clark represents everything that is good about America, but since she is heterosexual, white, and not liberal she is being rejected.

If the WNBA was about basketball and its expansion, Clark would be the face of the league.  But since the league is about pushing a radical political agenda, homosexuality, they are willing to continue to lose money for the foreseeable future.

Even after nearly thirty years of existence, having never earned a profit, and pushing away their fanbase because of their promotion of homosexuality; there continues to be no business case for the WNBA’s continued existence.

Staff Writer; Raynard Jackson

This talented brother is a Pulitzer Award nominated columnist and founder and chairman of Black Americans for a Better Future (BAFBF), a federally registered 527 Super PAC established to get more Blacks involved in the Republican Party. BAFBF focuses on the Black entrepreneur. For more information about BAFBF, visit www.bafbf.org. You can follow Raynard on Twitter; RealRaynardJ; on Gettr: RaynardJackson.

Can also drop him an email at; RaynardJ@ThyBlackMan.com.

They were about to be screwed with no Vaseline and did not know it.  They were warned but did not listen.

How do I know?  I was the one who warned them.  I was still in my twenties and as I look back at this situation, I cannot help but to think that all these “old-timers” did not take me seriously because I was so young.  After all, most of these guys were twenty, thirty, forty, years my senior!

Unfortunately, this would not be the last time I was disregarded because of my youth.

Atwater was a good friend of mine and a confidant of President George H.W. Bush.  Atwater was a political savant.  He was our James Carville without the histrionics.

Atwater and the rest of the Republican leadership negotiated a deal with Benjamin Hooks, head of the NAACP, John Jacobs, head of the National Urban Leage, and Kweisi Mfume, Maryland congressman and head of the Congressional Black Caucus.

All the other radical liberal old-time civil rights groups supported the deal.

I can now laugh at how ridiculous I must have sounded when I told these guys in no uncertain terms, “If you agree to this deal, you and Blacks folks are going to get screwed.  I do not know how, but you will get screwed.”

What deal did they agree to?

These radical Black liberals wanted to increase the number of Blacks elected to congress and wanted Republicans to work with them to establish more majority-minority districts.

The plan worked marvelously.  The CBC started with thirteen members in 1971.   Prior to the 1992 congressional elections, the first since the newly drawn maps after the 1990 census, they had twenty-seven members.  They added seventeen new members post 1992 elections for a new total of thirty-nine members. They were up to forty members by 1995.

Now it is time to eat our vegetables.

While these short term minded radical Democrats sold their souls in the 1980s and 1990s to pad the membership of the CBC, in exchange they unwittingly increased the number of elected white Republicans, especially in the South.

This led to a watershed moment that Democrats have yet to recover from, nor will they ever.

In January of 1995, the Republicans became a majority in the U.S. House of Representatives for the first time in 40 years!!!  It was labeled the Gingrich Revolution.

Former congressman from Georgia, Newt Gingrich became the first Republican House Speaker in over 40 years.  This was a direct result of the majority-minority districts concession to Blacks.

By tightly packing Black Democrats into narrow districts, the remaining white voters would become reliable voters for Republicans for decades to come.

Republicans were more than happy to give these Black Democrats what they wanted.  Republicans were thinking long ball and the Democrats were thinking with emotion and symbolism.

These radical Black liberals concluded that it was better to have more Blacks in the CBC and be in the minority versus having fewer Blacks and be in the majority.

This sophomoric thinking is why the Black community is in such bad shape today.  These media appointed radical Black leaders continue to lead with their emotions and not with their intellect.

Despite liberal protestations to the contrary, the Court did not repeal or even dilute the 1965 Voting Rights Act (VRA) in the Louisiana v. Callais case.

The Court simply stated that you can no longer use race as the primary rationale for congressional maps.  The decision is a net positive for the country and the Black community because politicians of all stripes will now be forced to build coalitions to win reelections; not just rely on all Black or all white voters.

After the 2020 census, Louisiana had one Black district; but radical Black liberal voters got greedy and claimed they should have two because a third of the state’s population was Black.  Obviously, this greed backfired big time.

I find it ironic that you never hear radical liberals quote Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act (52 U.S.C. §10301):  “nothing in this section establishes a right to have members of a protected class elected in numbers equal to their proportion in the population.”  Game, set and match!!!

The Supreme Court concluded that race can be a factor in drawing congressional boundaries, but not the overriding factor.  States must view the lines in totality based on the circumstances present in that particular state.  A state cannot just draw lines to simply create a new Black district.

Blacks must come to terms with the fact that the VRA was always supposed to be temporary, not open-ended.  This applies to affirmative action and other preference programs.

Most people agree that these programs were appropriate in the 1960 as a means to rid the country of Jim Crown and its vestiges; but as with most government programs, liberals continued to expand, and expand these programs until they became unrecognizable and had drifted so far away from their original purpose.

They were meant only for Blacks because of our unique history in this country.  These programs were never meant to include Hispanics, Asians, homosexuals, or to address those who did not speak English.

In the military we call this mission creep.  You go to war with Iraq for the express purpose of removing them from Kuwait, but once there you decide to remove Sadam Hussain from office.  This is the definition of mission creep.

These media appointed radical Black leaders continue to make other group’s priorities our priorities when they have absolutely nothing in common with our unique history in America.

Sixty-four percent of Americans voted in the 2024 presidential election.  Blacks comprised fourteen percent of eligible voters in 2024 with seventy-three percent of all Blacks being eligible to vote; but Black turnout was only sixty percent.

Blacks have an enthusiasm issue, not a voter suppression issue.  Forty percent of Blacks see no value in casting a vote during elections; therein lies the problem, not racism or Donald Trump or Republicans!

Both parties have a great opportunity to more effectively engage with the Black voter, but they both must come with a different approach than they have used in the past.

The Democrat’s approach to the Black community has become as the sounding brass or the tingling cymbal, full of sound and fury signifying nothing.

The Republican’s rhetoric is so insensitive and tone deaf that it is off-putting.  Their rhetoric is so loud that Blacks cannot hear a damn thing they are saying.

This could be a wakeup call to both parties, but are they listening?

Staff Writer; Raynard Jackson

This talented brother is a Pulitzer Award nominated columnist and founder and chairman of Black Americans for a Better Future (BAFBF), a federally registered 527 Super PAC established to get more Blacks involved in the Republican Party. BAFBF focuses on the Black entrepreneur. For more information about BAFBF, visit www.bafbf.org. You can follow Raynard on Twitter; RealRaynardJ; on Gettr: RaynardJackson.

Can also drop him an email at; RaynardJ@ThyBlackMan.com.