(ThyBlackMan.com) Donald Trump is streaming toward the Republican Party’s presidential nomination, scattering the campaign wreckage of the GOP establishment’s once-celebrated paladins, Jeb Bush, Chris Christie and Marco Rubio – and perhaps the GOP itself – in his wake. And, while he’s at it, he’s vilely trashing the “old-fashioned” conventions of ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “Give me the ready hand, rather that the ready tongue.” –Cesare Pavese Cesare Pavese’s quote gives a vivid illustration of the political scene in modern America. My primary mode of distraction is the 2016 United States election, scheduled to be held on Tuesday, November 8, 2016. Presently, the race ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) According to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (FRBNY), outstanding student loan debt has become the second largest form of consumer debt, only behind mortgages. With seven out of ten students finishing college with student loan debt, the student loan crisis has reached new heights. Student loan borrowers ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I saw America last night folks; the America I grew up with in Pumphrey, Maryland, a black suburban community outside of Baltimore. The unspoken philosophy of our tiny all black community was education, hard work, respect for elders and God. Pumphrey birthed numerous successful blacks. My sister’s-in-law brother Butch ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Seventy-two percent of the voters in 2012 identified as white. Thirty-five percent of the electorate self-identified as conservative. Mitt Romney won these groups 59% and 82% respectively. Still, though, Romney lost. He lost because President Barack Obama won three quarters of the non-white vote, including a staggering 71% of ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Dear Kanye West, Please allow me to say I have known pain, and hardship in my life. However, in don’t know the pain of having lost a mother…I said a prayer for you when your mom passed. To this day you still have my deepest sympathy. Your music is ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) When it’s all said and done, and the 2016 political season has come to an end – two things will have assuredly happened. First, we will have elected a new President of the United States. Second, the tone of electoral politics will have changed forever in the United States. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Damn, I love playing Spades and Bid-Whist. I love the games even more when I’m Trump-Tight. I control the board; in fact, the room and the board…of a whole lot of people. And a whole lot of money. Up front money; behind the back money; even kick back into ...