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.

Soap operas began as radio programs that morphed into TV series with the advent of television in the 1940s. They were mostly watched by women because men were away at work in the factory or on the family farm plowing the fields.

Major soap manufacturers were the primary sponsors since women did all the household chores during this time.  The sponsors were companies like Procter & Gamble, Colgate-Palmolive, and Lever Brothers.

Soap operas explored themes like love, betrayal, sex, social issues, corruption among the elite and political class.

Modern day soaps have an intense focus on dysfunction, tearing down of traditional social norms (the concept of man and woman) with an obsessive focus on how “racist” America is.  In many ways today’s soaps are anti-America.

Listening to the hysterical freaking out by radical liberals over last week’s U.S. Supreme Court’s decision on the Voting Rights Act, you would think America is on “The Edge of Night.”

As I have written in previous columns, the international intelligence consensus, led by our CIA, about the Black community is that “they are very emotional…if you get them emotional, they will lose sight of their objectives.”

So, like clockwork, it was no surprise that after the U.S. Supreme Court released it’s 6-3 ruling in the Louisiana v. Callais case that radical Black liberal media appointed leaders and organizations lost their collective minds.

Democrat shills like Roland Martin, Joy Reid, Don Lemon, Laura Coasts, Whoopie Goldberg, Sunny Hostin, Jemele Hill, Barak Obama; and radical liberal organizations like the NAACP, The National Urban League, the Congressional Black Caucus, the Black Economic Alliance, the United Negro College Fund, the Thurgood Marshall Fund, the National Association of Black Journalists, the National Bar Association all claimed that white racist Republicans like Donald Trump were trying to put Blacks back in slavery.

The court did not, let me repeat, DID NOT overturn the 1965 Voting Rights Act!  They simply said that you cannot base the drawing of a congressional district with the sole intent of packing enough Black voters in a district so that it guarantees a Black will be elected.

Implicit in what these radical Black liberals are saying is that the only way for Blacks to win an election is for them to receive only Black votes.

In other words, whites will not vote for a Black candidate.  Nothing could be more anti-American.

There are currently four Black Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives:  Byron Donalds (FL), Wesley Hunt (TX), John James (MI), Burgess Owens (UT).  They each represent a majority white district.

And what radical liberals always seem to forget is that America voted twice for Barak Obama, each time with a majority of the white vote.

So where is the political racism?  I will wait for your answer…

The Supreme Court basically said that it is perfectly fine to gerrymander based on party affiliation (Democrat, Republican); but you cannot do it to guarantee an outcome based on race (majority-minority districts).

Can someone please tell me how this is devastating to the Black community?

Another question for my radical liberal sycophants, I have seen you all over the media ranting about how Republicans and conservatives have been chipping away at voting rights, affirmative action, and other liberal programs for decades; so why did you not do anything legislatively to protect these programs or update these programs for the 21^st century?

In Bill Clinton’s and Barak Obama’s first terms in office, Democrats controlled the House, Senate and the White House and you did nothing.  Were they also racists?

To the NAACP, The National Urban League, the Congressional Black Caucus, Black Economic Alliance, the National Association of Black Journalists, the Thurgood Marshall Fund, the United Negro College Fund, the National Bar Association, why were you not forward thinking enough to be proactive versus reactive?  Since radical liberal Black leadership “knew” Republicans were attempting to eradicate these programs why did they do nothing?

Herein lies the problems with the media appointed radical Black leaders in the Black community, they are worthless.  They are supposed to be the “talented tenth,”  “the boule,” “the bourgeoisie.”

How much of the blame for the Black community’s plight fall at the feet of these weak, radical, liberal organizations and their bought and paid for leadership?

The Supreme Court’s decision is going to force both Black and white, liberal and conservative, Democrat and Republican to work together in coalitions based on a shared agenda.

This is what these crazy radical Black liberals refuse talk about.  By getting rid of the minority districts, whites will pick up a considerable amount of Black voters that will necessitate dialogue and interaction.

Who would argue that this is a bad thing?

These white and Black elected officials will now have to build relationships with people under the new maps they would normally never have to engage with.

In majority white districts, elected officials could ignore their Black constituents; in majority Black districts elected officials could ignore their white constituents.

Under the new maps Black and white elected officials will be forced to interact with the new voters of their districts.

These once useful laws and programs from the 1960s began with the intent of creating equality and justice specifically for Blacks; but they have morphed into guaranteed outcomes (majority-minority districts, all but guaranteeing that a Black would win the election).

That is the singular issue the Supreme Court was addressing in its ruling last week.  Nothing more, nothing less.

The right to vote, still there.  The right to pick your representative based on your political values, still there. The right to guarantee that you have a Black representative, gone!

If you want a Black representative, build coalitions and meet at the ballot box.

According to Pew Research, “the number of Black eligible voters in the United States is projected to reach 34.4 million in November 2024 (the latest year data is available) after several years of modest growth. And Black eligible voters stand out for turnout rates that are higher than among Latino and Asian eligible voters.”

According to this same research, Blacks comprise 14% of all voters.  Half of Black eligible voters live in one of eight states. Texas has the largest number, with 2.9 million, followed by Georgia and Florida (2.6 million each). Rounding out the top eight are New York (2.4 million), California (2.0 million), North Carolina (1.8 million), and Maryland and Illinois (1.4 million each). Together, these states account for 52% of Black eligible voters in the 50 states and the District of Columbia.

Regionally, more than half of Black eligible voters (57%) live in Southern states. The Midwest (17%) and Northeast (16%) have the next-highest shares of the nation’s Black eligible voters, while relatively few live in the West (10%).

Black eligible voters are more likely than eligible voters to be women (53% vs. 51%). They also tend to be younger than eligible voters overall: 60% of Black eligible voters are under the age of 50, compared with 52% of all U.S. eligible voters.

Only 64% of eligible Black voters actually voted in 2024.  This is the problem, not racism.

So as opposed to giving Blacks a reason to vote,  radical Black liberals keep trying to force Black voters to accept amnesty for illegals, boys in girl sports, homosexuality, no punishment for crimes, higher taxes and radical feminism.  Black voters continue to show they are not in agreement with these media appointed leaders, so an increasing number are now voting Republican.

As the soulful singer, Michael McDonald told me, “what a fool believes he sees; no wiseman has the power to reason away; ‘cause what seems to be is always better than nothing at all.”

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/2026/05/05/supreme-court-voting-rights-act-ruling-black-voters-analysis/feed/ 2 https://thyblackman.com/2026/04/26/eric-swalwell-allegations-due-process-public-accusations/ https://thyblackman.com/2026/04/26/eric-swalwell-allegations-due-process-public-accusations/#respond Sun, 26 Apr 2026 06:10:54 +0000 https://thyblackman.com/?p=139433 (ThyBlackMan.com) With the recent orgy of accusations surrounding former Congressman Eric Swalwell, I have concluded that radical feminist women are the problem, not Swalwell.

Swalwell and I have had many interactions over the years.  We are by no means friends or even acquaintances; but my interactions with him did not give me a warm and fuzzy.

I found him to be extremely arrogant, condescending and thoroughly full of himself.

With that background, I think he got a raw deal in the media and within life regarding these baseless allegations leveled at him by all these women.

He and I agree on nothing when it comes to politics.  Despite our political disagreements, no one should be subjected to unfounded charges and have their life totally destroyed without due process.

As important as due process is, these women never presented one shred of evidence to back up their salacious allegations.

Swalwell’s predicament is a continuation of the perverted radical feminist dogma of the “me to movement” from ten years ago.

This man bashing feminist dogma led to the idiotic belief that “women have a right to be believed.”

There is no such accommodation afforded to women in our constitution and there is absolutely no jurisprudence to substantiate such foolishness.

What women and all citizens are afforded is the right to be heard by a jury of one’s peers; to have their day in court to air out the facts.

Our legal system is based on a simple principle:  it is not what you know, it is what you can prove.  As imperfect as this system may be, it is the best system we have and it has worked pretty well over the past couple of hundred years.

One of Swalwell’s accusers, Lonna Drewes, claims, without evidence, that she was drugged and raped in a hotel room.

I find it ironic that in all of her incessant speaking to the media, there is no mention of how and why she was in Swalwell’s hotel room.  Hmmmm?

According to her, “He raped me, and he choked me…And while he was choking me, I lost consciousness. I thought I died. I did not consent to any sexual activity, although I did not undergo a rape kit at the time, I disclosed the assault to the people closest to me.”

Again, where is the evidence?  If you are lying and you tell your best friend and your family the same lie, they can confirm what you told them; but they cannot confirm whether what you said really happened.

So, she was allowed to destroy a man’s career and reputation without providing a shred of evidence.  Is this really the America we want to live in?

Word to the wise, any person who is represented by attorney, Lisa Bloom, should be viewed very skeptically, but I digress.

You really think women have a right to be believed?  Ask the Duke University lacrosse players how they feel about this.

This radically extreme “me to movement” has done more damage to the plight of women being treated fairly than any piece of legislation proffered by a perceived misogynistic legislator!

Former Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, singer Tara Sloane have all said that all women should be believed anytime they make an accusation against a man.

Not only is that illegal, it is unethical.  But why let facts stand in the way of a good radical feminist narrative?  Destroying a person’s life be damned.

I am not making an argument either way as to Swalwell’s innocence or guilt; my argument is about the fact that women today can simply make an unfounded accusation and be given the benefit of the doubt.

This must stop! Now!!  Right now!!!

What these radical feminist promoting this “me to movement” mean is women have a right to be believed as long as they are accusing Republicans.

Do not believe me?

Look at how the radical liberal media and people like Pelosi responded when former President Joe Biden was credibly accused of rape by Tara Reade during the 2020 presidential campaign. Pelosi stated that “she believed Biden’s denials and it was a closed issue…I’m not going to answer this question again.”  Though there was no investigation!

Word of advice to women, if something bad happens to you, like rape; file a police report in real time.  As far as I am concerned, if you do not, then it never happened.  And I do not want to hear or see you in front of cameras five, ten, thirty years later.  Period!!!

If you have kept your mouth shut for years, then take it to your grave.

I have had far too many high-profile clients who have had their reputations marred by scandalous women making scandalous charges without offering one shred of evidence.

Despite my dislike of former Congressman Eric Swalwell, he does not deserve the treatment he received.  Today it is him, tomorrow it is you!

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.

I have been writing about Trump’s transformative journey since 2015.

Coming down those golden escalators in Trump Towers to announce his candidacy for president  in 2015 was transformative.  His blunt, in your face announcement was a stunning shock to the way Americans were used to seeing presidential candidates campaign.  He promised to deport every illegal person from the U.S.  There was no sugar-coating in his announcement.  Straight-up in your face with no chaser!

The way he thoroughly destroyed his primary opponents in 2015 was astonishing and jarring.  But, Americans had grown tired of all the niceties of political campaigns when their quality of life was in a downward direction.

Voters simply wanted someone to tell them the truth and speak to them in a language they could understand; talk to them like they were at the neighborhood bar.

Trump gave them that and so much more.  This is a fancy way of saying that Trump was authentic and relatable to the average American.

For a list of some of Trump’s best zingers, click on this link.

Trump has forced global leaders and people around the world to question and re-think their approach to politics, culture, economics, migration, and the environment, to name a few.

Is NATO, the EU, the World Bank, the IMF, or the UN still relevant today?  Or do we need to disband them?   Can they be reformed and if so, how?

Can you name me one problem they have solved or prevented in recent years?

Every other political, corporate, or religious leader went along to get along.  Not Trump.

He literally wanted to burn the house down and rebuild every institution from scratch.  He was not trying to be liked.  He wanted things to work.  He demanded institutions and individuals to justify their continued existence.

He asked NATO members who had not paid their dues in years why should America come to their defense if their dues are not current?  No U.S. president had ever made such a statement publicly.  Trump demanded and got, the UN to reduce its budget by nearly twenty percent and fire over three thousand people.

Domestically, do we need the Department of Education, the Minority Business Development Agency (MBDA), the Agency for International Development (U.S.A.I.D.)?

We have not reimagined our approach to government since the end of World War II.  Our government, corporate, religious, and societal institutions have become stale and outdated.

They were all created in an analogue world and are being asked now to operate in a global digital world.

The biggest transformative impact by Trump is within the Black community.

Trump has shone a massive spotlight on how the Democrat Party and their bought and paid for media appointed Black leaders have devastated the Black community and sold them out at every possible chance!

These radical Democrats have unleashed the genocidal wave of liberalism in the Black community to devastating effects.

So, to my Democrat detractors, let me preemptively state that the Republicans have better policies to offer the Black community, but they are totally incompetent in communicating their message to us.  And they have made it darn near impossible to get us to view them as a viable option with some of the rhetoric coming out of the party!!!

Trump’s opening salvo to the Black community was in 2016 when he famously asked, “What the hell do you have to lose?”  Trump earned 8, 12, 16 percent of the Black vote in 2016, 2020, 2024, respectively.  Only Richard Nixon has received more support from the Black community in recent history.

I am not arguing one way or the other as to whether Blacks should have voted for Trump.  My argument is that through the sheer force of his personality, Trump challenged Blacks loyalty to the Democrat Party by  asking what has been the return on Black’s investment in the Democrat Party?

Trump singlehandedly caused Blacks to rethink their voting habits more than any other person in my lifetime.  Again, this is not about whether to vote Democrat or Republican; but rather who is best addressing the issues Blacks care about.

That is Trump’s secret sauce to his transformative impact on the world.  I was once told my former chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, Oliver Wendall Holmes, “A mind that is stretched to a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.”

Trump has done his job by breaking up the fallow ground within the body politic in the Black community.

Now the Republican Party has an opportunity to pick up where Trump left off.  They need to focus like a laser beam on Black entrepreneurship.  They must open doors of opportunity for these businessmen.  These businessmen are the gateway into the Black community.  Not the preachers, not the churches, not the NAACP, not the National Urban League, not the Congressional Black Caucus, not Black sororities or fraternities.

Trump’s transformative behavior and policies could very well be the impetus for a radical transformation of the voting habits within the Black community.

And if Republicans are able to transform the Black vote, then America will truly become great again!

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.

We face a myriad of problems in the U.S. and within the Black community.

One of the biggest problems facing America is that we have been “misdiagnosed” not only by our political leaders, but also by our governing institutions.

If you are misdiagnosed, you will be given the wrong prescription to cure the said problem.

Herein lies the problem in America and most pronounced within the Black community.

Allow me to go back to my Oral Roberts University roots to properly diagnose our illness.

I am reminded of my good buddy Daniel and our many conversations over the millennia.

In the fifth chapter of the book of Daniel it tells the story of the King of Babylon, Belshazzar and the hand writing on the wall.  Daniel was considered the wise man of the Kingdom who had the blessing of God upon his life.

No one was able to interpret the handwriting on the wall until the King summoned Daniel.

The king promised Daniel he would be third in line to the kingdom if he were able to interpret the handwriting on the wall.

In Daniel 5:25-27, “And this is the writing that was written, Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin…This is the interpretation of the thing: Mene; God hath numbered thy kingdom, and finished it…Tekel; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.”

In a similar manner, liberalism has been on trial for the past fifty years in America and more specifically in the Black community.

Liberalism of the past fifty years has damaged America and has devastated the Black community!

Paraphrasing Daniel, liberalism has been tried and is finished.  It has been weighed in the balances and has been found wanting. And now the unfettered support of the Democrat Party by Blacks is slowly being stripped away from the radical liberal racist whites of America.

These radical liberal white racist have injected feminism into our Black women, homosexuality into our Black churches, and turned unfettered abortion into a perverse form of birth control.

Liberalism has further destroyed the Black community with non-performing schools, out of wedlock childbirth, and the total decimation of the entrepreneurial class with more government regulations, increased minimum wage, and out of control tax rates.

Democrats, like King Belshazzar, are incapable of reading the handwriting on the wall.

Democrats have had several recent versions of Daniel, ones who could properly interpret the handwriting on the wall for the party, but they have shunned them.

Pennsylvania senator, John Fetterman and political strategist James Carville have both been very critical of the Democrat Party being high jacked by the far left of their party.

During a recent hit on Fox News, Fetterman discussed why he voted to confirm new Homeland Security Secretary, Markwayne Mullin.  “I believe in a very secure border…We also agreed that we should deport all of the criminals. My friend Markwayne and I, we agree on that…The Democrat Party is motivated by Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS).”

Carville’s diagnosis of the Democrat Party is, “Constipated. Leaderless. Confused. A cracked-out clown car. Divided. These are the words I hear my fellow Democrats using to describe our party as of late. The truth is they’re not wrong: The Democratic Party is in shambles.”

Fetterman and Carville have both sounded the alarm to any and everyone in the Democrat Party who will listen.

They have rightly given the Democrat Party the right interpretation of the handwriting on the wall, to no avail!

Each have blown the horn on the radical leftward drift of their party.  According to them, Democrats continue to support radical open borders, radical homosexual and transexual policies, higher taxes, etc.

Radical liberal Black Democrats and their weak organizations are still bringing an analogue mentality to a digital political world.

Marching and singing We Shall Overcome was good for the sixties and seventies; but in the twenty first century, they are tired and worn out.

Calling white folks racists has lost its mojo.  Blaming the legacy of slavery and systemic racism no longer resonates with the American people.   Dying on the hill of DEI is no longer productive.

Slavery was and will always be America’s original sin; but no one alive today owned any slaves and whites are rightfully tired of being beaten across the head over something they had nothing to do with.

If you have a disagreement with those who support the elimination of DEI, calling them a racist is not going to make them open to hearing your point of view.

The reason I have been able to successfully navigate being in the Republican Party is that I have come to understand the Powell doctrine.

Former secretary of state, Colin Powell advocated and promoted the principle of constructive engagement.  He applied this principle not only to foreign policy, but also his approach to life.

Constructive engagement meant talking and building relationships with those you oppose and disagree with.

I am not always able to get Republicans to change their view on policies that I disagree with them on; but I have on many occasions been able to get them to moderate their views on some issues.  In many instances, getting someone to moderate on certain positions is just as good as a victory.

I challenge my readers, especially my Democrat readers to name me one issue Democrats have ever moderated on to bring Republicans towards their side.

To Democrats, you must move to their side or be called a racist; you must give up your moral values to prove that you are not a right-wing nut—like abortion; you must support homosexuality to prove you are inclusive.

You can not philosophically disagree with radical Black liberals and still be a good person.  You must give up your value system to prove you are a person of goodwill.

Liberalism has failed by any and all objective measures, so why Blacks continue fighting for more of the same is crazy to me.

Continuing to use a dial-up modem to access digital content is like asking Americans to give up their cars and go back to the horse and buggy days.  Not going to happen.

Blacks have not changed their approach to advocacy since the civil rights days.

We are living in a digital world with Black folks trying to solve problems with analogue solutions.

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.

Exhibit A in this pathology is the myth of the disappearing Black woman from the work force, especially within the federal workforce.

According to the 2020 census, Blacks comprise about 14% of the U.S. population, with women accounting for about 52% of the Black population.  Blacks make up about 18% of the federal civilian workforce versus 12% of the civilian workforce, according to a recent Pew report.

Black women comprise about 12% of the 18% of the civilian federal workforce number.  If anything, we should be discussing the disappearing Black male, but I digress.

So, it came as no surprise when President Trump returned to office last year wielding his HUGE scalpel called The Department Of Government Efficiency (DOGE) that radical liberal Blacks’ default position was screams of discrimination.

He campaigned on reducing the size of government and the American people, by their vote, said they agreed with him.

Like clockwork, the radical liberal elements in the Democrat Party and within the radical liberal Black community did what they do best:  blamed everything on racism, sexism, and every other ism you could think of.

Radical liberal groups like the Congressional Black Caucus, The NAACP, The National Urban League and radical liberal operatives like Roland Martin, Abby Phillip, Joi Reid, Don Lemon, Laura Coates, etc. were incapable of stating the obvious facts like Blacks, especially Black women, are vastly over represented in the federal workforce.

So, the reduction of Black females in the federal workforce has absolutely nothing, I repeat, absolutely nothing to do with race or sex!!!

If the National Basketball Association (NBA) reduces the number of players on each team, currently fifteen, Blacks will be disproportionately impacted; not because of racism, but because they are over 71% of the players in the league.  It is called simple math.

Likewise, when any president shrinks the size of the government, Blacks, especially Black women will always be disproportionately affected.  It is a metaphysical certitude.

It is irresponsible for the default reaction from radical liberals to blame it on racism.  It is just as repulsive to see radical liberal Blacks constantly play the race card for everything they claim is hurting the Black community.

If everything is racist, then nothing is racist!!!

There is no question that there was a time in America’s history that the federal government was the only organization that would hire Blacks, especially those with college degrees.

The floodgates burst open in the sixties and seventies, right after the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and 1965.

If you are of a certain age it was drilled into you:  go to college, get a job in the federal government for thirty years, and retire after they give you your gold watch.

Over the decades, Blacks got comfortable with the job security the federal government provided along with the medical and other benefits.

This security created the Black middle class that we see today.

Prince George’s County, Maryland and Arlington, Virginia are some of the wealthiest suburbs in the U.S. for Blacks; and it is all predicated on the federal government and federal government contractors.

Of all Blacks with college degrees, 60% work for local, state or federal government; of the remaining 40%, 25% percent work for corporate America, leaving 15% for entrepreneurship.

We have a massive brain drain in the Black community that no one is addressing.

Government at every level has become much too large and fiscal responsibility mandates that we reduce the size and scope of local, state, and federal government.

The decision is based on the fiscal realities faced both in government and the private sector.  Artificial intelligence is only going to exacerbate the problem.

So, when governments issues reduction in force orders, the decisions will not be based on race; but rather the sheer size of bloated government.

In the immortal words of my boy Michael McDonald of The Doobie Brothers fame, “What a fool believes he sees, no wise man has the power to reason away; ‘cause what seems to be is always better than nothing at all.”

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/2026/03/24/the-myth-of-the-disappearing-black-woman-from-the-workforce/feed/ 1 https://thyblackman.com/2026/03/16/black-voters-skin-color-vs-policy-debate/ https://thyblackman.com/2026/03/16/black-voters-skin-color-vs-policy-debate/#comments Mon, 16 Mar 2026 05:59:59 +0000 https://thyblackman.com/?p=138757 (ThyBlackMan.com) During the past couple of months, I have undertaken an informal experiment with many of my friends who are media appointed leaders of all the top Black civil entitlement organizations (some refer to them as civil rights organizations, but I digress).

These friends of mine work in leadership positions for radical liberal groups like the NAACP, The National Urban League, the Congressional Black Caucus, The National Association of Black Journalists, etc.

I asked these radical Black liberals if they had to choose between voting for a Black Democrat versus a white Democrat, who would they choose.

Not one person asked me about any policy differences between the two candidates.  Their default position was if “they were Black, they automatically had the best interest of the Black community at heart.”

Herein lies the problem permeating within the radical liberal quarters of the Black community, voting for skin color not for policies!!!

There are well over ten thousand Black elected officials across America, the most in the history of the U.S.  This includes mayors, state representatives, state senators, city councilmen, etc.  There is one Black governor in the U.S., Wes Moore, the radical liberal governor of the state of Maryland.

There are current and former Black mayors of St. Louis, Baltimore, New York City, Washington, DC, Chicago, Dallas, Detroit, etc.

Many of these cities have not had a Republican mayor in almost one hundred hears—Baltimore, St. Louis comes to mind.

Yet whenever these radical liberal Black elected officials discuss all the negative indices in their communities among Blacks, the fault always lie with Donald Trump, white folks, racism and the legacy of slavery.

These radical liberal Blacks can never bring themselves to admit that it is their radical liberal policies that have destroyed the Black community!

Crime is out of control in these cities along with the unemployment rate, teenage pregnancy, welfare, and non-performing schools.

In many of these cities, radical liberal Blacks control all of the levers of power and they still blame their plight on “the man.”  I have no idea who “the man is.”  I would love for someone to introduce me to him.

You have a Black mayor, a majority Black city council, a Black state representative, a Black state senator, a Black police chief, a Black states attorney, and a Black U.S. Congressman; but yet the blame always comes down to white folks.

Make it make sense!!!

This debate is no longer about the goodness or badness of white folks.  This debate is no longer about the legacy of slavery.  This debate is no longer about whether Donald Trump is a racist or not.

The debate is about the failure of liberalism and Black elected officials promoting a radical liberal agenda that continues to destroy the Black community.

The War on Poverty should be renamed The War on Blacks.  These policies have totally decimated the Black community and elected Black officials continue to ignore the devastation.

In former President Reagan’s 1988 State of the Union speech he stated, “We waged a war on poverty and poverty won.”

My corollary is, “Radical liberal white Democrats waged a war on poverty and Blacks lost!”

During the last fifty years radical liberals have spent well over $ 15 trillion on the War on Poverty with nothing to show but total devastation in the Black community.

For $ 15 trillion Blacks have high crime rates, low home ownership, out of control fatherless households, and non-performing schools.

According to the Libertarian Institute, “Data provided by every census between 1890 and 1954 shows that black Americans were just as active – and sometimes more – in the labor market than their white counterparts. In 1900, for example, black unemployment was 15 percent lower than white unemployment. In 2017, it was 30 percent higher…If the conventional narrative on black American poverty and general social dysfunction were correct – that this was caused by the legacy of slavery, Jim Crow, and private discrimination – wouldn’t we expect to see a decline in black unemployment rather than the opposite?”

Blacks must stop voting with their emotions and get back to voting for their interests like in the days of old.

We had a two-term bi-racial president, Obama, with nothing to show for it.  We have sixty-two members of the Congressional Black Caucus, the largest voting block in Congress, with nothing to show for it.

Being a Black in the Democrat Party is like pissing on yourself in a dark blue suit; it gives you a warm feeling but no one ever notices.

Message to the Black community, stop letting radical liberal Democrats piss on you and then tell you it is raining!!!

To continue to vote with emotion and not policy that is based on our interests is like the sounding brass or the tingling cymbal full of sound and fury signifying nothing!

Radical liberalism has been totally discredited by the indices in the Black community and has been totally rejected by the rank and file within the Black community and in the marketplace of ideas.

If Republicans were to get serious about substantively engaging with the Black community, they could move more votes in their direction.

Unfortunately, when all is said and done, there is more said than done!!!

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.

He then asked me if I had heard about the big announcement recently made by the NBA’s Atlanta Hawks?

I reached for my phone and was totally appalled by the Hawks’ announcement.

According to a press release by the Hawks, “Hawks to Celebrate Atlanta’s Iconic Cultural Institution ‘Magic City’ During the Team’s “Magic City Monday” Game Against the Orlando Magic on Monday, March 16.”

Yes, you read that correctly. An NBA franchise is openly promoting an event tied to a strip club culture built on the sexual exploitation of women, many of them Black.

How the NBA’s corporate office is allowing this association with their brand should tell you all you need to know about their views on the Black community, especially Black women.

Just an FYI, seventy percent of the NBA is composed of Black players.

So my question for the owners of the Atlanta Hawks and the commissioner of the NBA, Adam Silver is very simple:  “Who determined that a strip club, Magic City, was a “cultural institution” of the Black community?

This is the type of “soft bigotry” perpetuated by white liberals that always goes unchallenged by sycophantic liberal Black athletes and entertainers.

Am I the only one that is offended that a professional sports team, whose Black employees comprise seventy eight percent of the workforce, would unilaterally declare that part of the cultural identify of Atlanta’s Black community supports pornography and the sexual exploitation of Black women?

For the uninitiated, Magic City is a notorious strip club in Atlanta that attracts some of the biggest names in sports and entertainment, along with drug dealers and various other criminal elements.  It has been the scene of many murders and other criminal acts.

Why would the NBA associate its brand with such an establishment baffles many.  They are one of the wokest leagues in professional sports.  They “claim” to be for women empowerment, yet they are promoting a strip club that makes its money by sexually exploiting women, specifically Black women!!!

Atlanta has long been identified as a major hub for the trafficking of underage girls.

According to the state of Georgia, Atlanta has historically been a significant center for child sex trafficking in the United States due to its transportation infrastructure and high-profile events such as the NFL’s Super Bowl, MLB’s all-star game and the U.S. Olympics, etc.

Atlanta ranks second nationally in human trafficking prevalence, after Washington, D.C.  It is estimated that the sex trade in Atlanta generates close to half a billion dollars in revenues annually.

Many of the children sex trafficked have been brought into the U.S. illegally by various drug cartels.  Those who support open borders never want to address this issue.

Many sex trafficked girls end up working in strip clubs and the NBA is very aware of this feeder system.

Let us peel this onion back even further.

The Atlanta Hawks are owned by the husband and wife team of Jami Gertz and Tony Ressler.  They both publicly “claim” to be practicing Jews.  If they are, how does supporting pornography fit into their religious faith?

They are radically liberal when it comes to engaging with the Black community.  As with most radical liberals, they never miss an opportunity to condescend and poison the Black community.

There is indeed a way that seems right to a radical white liberal and the end thereof are the ways of death to the Black community.

As radical white liberals are wont to do when they want to perpetuate anything negative in the Black community, they always find a Black person to be the face of their issue.

In this instance, the Hawks pushed out their token Black female, Melissa Proctor as the face of this idiotic idea.  Proctor is the Executive Vice president & Chief Marketing Officer for the Atlanta Hawks.

If you have issues with what she has approved, please reach out to her on social media and include a link to my column.  She needs to publicly address this issue.

As a Black female, she approved the Hawks endorsement of pornography night on next Monday.

Please make it make sense.  A woke Black female co-signing on the sexual exploitation of young Black girls.

Where is radical loudmouth Stacy Abrahams on this issue?  Her whole political career was based on “women empowerment” and Black girl magic, not Black girls at Magic City!  Where is Georgia’s Black U.S. Senator and ordained minister, Raphael Warnock?  Where is civil rights legend Andy Young or former Black female mayor, Keisha Bottoms?  I guess she does not have a problem with Black women making money showing off their bottoms?  Where is serial fornicator and self-identified preacher Jamal Bryant, who has dropped his fair share of money at strip clubs.

It is ironic that March is celebrated as Women’s History Month.  It has been so designated since 1987.  It began as a weeklong celebration of women’s contributions to culture, history and society organized by the school district of Sonoma, California, in 1978.

In 1980, President Jimmy Carter issued the first presidential proclamation declaring the week of March 8 as National Women’s History Week. The U.S. Congress followed suit the next year, passing a resolution establishing a national celebration. Six years later, the National Women’s History Project successfully petitioned Congress to expand the event to the entire month of March.

Woke organizations like the Atlanta Hawks are very well aware of the significance of the month of March to women’s issues!

As if this were not ironic enough, the loudest voice in opposition to the event has not come from within the Black community, it has come from a white player from the San Antonio Spurs, Luke Kornet.

Here is a white kid from Kentucky that seems to be more bothered by this event than all of the woke Black players in the NBA.

And not one peep from the women of the WNBA.  I should not be surprised at this because most of these woman are lesbian and the root word of lesbian is hypocrite.

Not a word out of Queen James, er, LeBron James from the Lakers or Golden State coach Steve Kerr.

Just look at some of the ignorant statements uttered by prominent Blacks attempting to justify this exploitation of Black women.  Click on this link.

The most ironic of all ironies is the video of club owner’s daughter.  She is a stripper at her father’s club.  How can any father promote the sexual exploitation of his own daughter?

Click on the above link.  It is cringeworthy and disturbing.

Oh, and by the way, according to Magic City’s own website, in order to reserve a table at the club, “you must provide your government -issued photo ID and credit card.”

I thought Blacks did not have government issued photo IDs; and to require one is considered racist.  Hmm

There is nothing magical about the city of Atlanta and the Hawks promotion of pornography and the sexual exploitation of Black women.  But there is definitely something mystical that the owners of the Atlanta Hawks and the leadership of the NBA think this event is appropriate and endearing to 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.

When a major figure dies within our community, Blacks are quick to monitor the amount of coverage the person receives from the “white” media.  I think this is stupid by Blacks, but I digress!

What is not stupid is to notice the lack of coverage from Black owned media.  Most Black media did a quick hit in the immediate aftermath of Jackson’s death.  But where is the coverage from TV ONE, The Grio, OWN, Aspire, etc.?

Blacks are quick to ask white folks to do for us what we are not willing to do for ourselves!!!

Go figure?

Jesse Jackson’s death does not deserve massive global media coverage.

Jesse Jackson’s life earned massive global media coverage.

To deserve something is strictly subjective.  When my boss says that I “deserve” a day off with pay, that is subjective, an opinion.  My co-workers might totally disagree with my boss.

But when my boss says that I deserve a day off with pay because I was number one in sales for the month; that can be objectively verified as fact or not.

Once my sales for the month are objectively confirmed by management, then I no longer deserve a day off; I have earned a day off.

When you study the totality of Jackson’s work during his life, there is absolutely no doubt that he contributed more good than bad to America.

Jackson has definitely earned the massive global media he has received, despite the lack of media coverage from within the Black-owned media space.

He was born in Greenville, South Carolina in nineteen forty-one.  He grew up in the segregated South but never allowed that to deter him from his life’s mission of creating equal opportunity for Blacks.

For those who are unfamiliar with Jesse’s bio, I encourage you to go to the internet; but for purposes of this column, I want to focus on my personal relationship with Jackson and his profound impact on America specifically, the world in general and me.

I have known Jesse Jackson since nineteen seventy-nine, when I was a senior at Soldan High School in St. Louis.

During my senior year of high school there was a major teacher’s strike throughout the city.  Many students, like me, had their college applications and high school transcripts locked away in our various schools.

Since our teachers were on strike and our counselors were not willing to cross the picket lines there was no way for us to complete the college application process without going to school.

The city of St. Louis and the Board of Education kept the schools open.  So, if we were truly serious about continuing our education like we stated to the media and did not show up for school; the media would call us hypocrites.

If we crossed the picket lines, then our teachers would become our enemies.

What a Hobson’s choice for a bunch of teenagers.

Without us crossing the picket lines, we were all in danger of missing the various deadlines to submit our college applications and financial aid forms to the federal government.

I was president of my senior class and had discussed our plight with my fellow students from other schools.  We came up with an ingenious idea; especially for a bunch of seventeen and eighteen-year-olds.

So, me and a friend who was also president of her senior class decided to organize the presidents of all the senior classes and student body presidents of the affected schools to write a letter to Jesse Jackson at his Operation Push headquarters in Chicago.

We explained our dilemma in our letter and to our total shock and surprise, Jackson responded.

Remember we were simply anonymous teenagers caught between a rock and a hard place.

After several phone calls, he agreed to come to St. Louis to meet with us in person.

We had a major Hobson’s choice that we could not figure out.

We were gutsy enough to get one of the biggest people in politics to get behind us, but yet we did not want to cross the picket lines because that would anger our teachers and counselors.

Of course, Jesse being a Jackson, he came up with an ingenious solution.  We Jackson’s always solve problems, but I digress yet again!

Jesse knew we could not be seen skipping school because of fear of alienating our teachers; the media would say we were not serious about our education.  Most of the students had real personal relationships with our teachers and counselors and we did not want our actions to hurt them.

So, Jesse had all the high school students from across the city of St. Louis meet at a central location by way of public transportation.  Then we all marched from the meeting spot to our main library in downtown St. Louis.

We sat there during our school hours doing our studies and getting tutoring help for those who needed it.

In so doing, we showed the media that we were indeed serious about our education; and we also honored the picket lines in support of our teachers.

Jesse taught a bunch of teenagers that “some things are urgent (getting back in school) and some things are important (honoring the picket lines).”

Jesse taught me this simple principle and I have used it my entire life, especially when confronted with difficult choices.

When I became a Republican in the eighties and began to work for President George H.W. Bush, many of the old time Civil Rights leaders that I knew stopped speaking to me because they had been bought and paid for by radical white liberal Democrats.  They shunned me because in their perverted view, I was a sellout!

Jesse was not part of this group.  He always made time for me and would always return my calls.

Jesse was on the front lines of the fight to outlaw Apartheid in South Africa.  He proved to be an effective emissary when it came to playing the role of peacekeeper across the globe.

Who could forget how in nineteen eighty-three Jackson secured the release of Lt. Robert Goodman Jr., a Navy aviator who was shot down over the mountains of Lebanon and captured by the Syrian government.

After a direct appeal and visit to Syrian President Hafez al-Assad, Jackson secured Goodman’s release. Jackson went on to secure the release of hostages in Cuba and Iraq in subsequent years.

There are so many other areas to explore about my relationship with Jesse Jackson that will be discussed in my second book being released later this year but suffice it to say that he truly earned all the accolades he is being given in death.

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.