(ThyBlackMan.com) Any new program will have problems and unexpected issues until they are sorted out. So it is with the Affordable Care Act. Notice the Republicans, offered no real solutions to help the uninsured or medically ill but they were quick to tear down the efforts of others. Where was the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Rarely am I happier that I lack a larger audience than when I’m dead wrong about politics. My most recent piece wrongly predicted an easy victory for Hillary Clinton. I did so here, as well. With certainty, I declared Donald Trump “a loser.” In fact, so depressed was I about ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) According to a new Urban Institute report the typical white family had accumulated more than $134,200 in wealth in 2013, while black families scraped together a little more than $11,000 and Hispanic families $13,700, It’s yet another example of how financial inequality is pervading this country and it’s is only ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) As we already mentioned in our previous articles, black people travel the world and there is no reason why any black person should miss an opportunity for an adventure like this. If you have a passport you can travel anywhere you want and one of the places that have grabbed ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The latest spin out of Washington is that stock-market declines over the last 10 days are due to Donald Trump’s surge in the polls. Well, it is true that Wall Street tends to hate change — even when it’s positive. And if Donald Trump is anything, it is a ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) By the time you read this I trust you will have wiped away the slime and the grunge, regurgitated a few times, taken a good bath or shower, relentlessly scrubbed the stench from your bodies, and maybe even found it necessary to delouse. The dirty, filthy, hateful, distasteful, embarrassing, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “To continue in our current system without comprehensive data only stalls meaningful conversation and fuels empty debates, both within law enforcement and in the communities we serve.” — James B. Comey, F.B.I. Director, Uniform Crime Reporting Program, 2014 Following an explosive succession of high-profile police killings—many of them of unarmed ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Just a few days before the corrosive 2016 election, it occurs to me that no matter what the outcome, our social fabric has been shredded by the ugliness of this campaign. Sure, there have been ugly campaigns before, but this one has revealed the extent to which racism and ...