(ThyBlackMan.com) You hear about it every month. you see the tears, the vigils, the rallies and the protests. Yet police brutality and killing of private citizens keeps right on happening and its far worse than you think. Are there good police officers? Of course there are many good officers and ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Mary and I flew into Orlando Florida this evening after ten intense days of campaigning for Ted Cruz in Wisconsin. A shuttle took us to our car at the park-and-go near the airport. We made the hour long drive home to Deltona. The pet/house sitter vacated earlier. I was ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “If A is a success in life, then A equals X plus Y plus Z. Work is X; Y is play, and Z is keeping your mouth shut.” ~ Albert Einstein The Western view of success couples wealth accumulation by any means with unfettered consumption. This idea was ingrained ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) After the 2012 election, when Americans re-elected Barack Obama, Republican Party leadership rightly did some soul searching. Republicans were in shock that Americans could re-elect a man they saw as clearly bad for the country, weakening us at home and fueling instability abroad. Polls showed that Obama’s signature law, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) When it comes to consumer concerns, debt collection remains the top complaint most often reported to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). Two newly-released CFPB reports reveal which consumers are most at risk and the businesses most often identified in debt collection issues. As of March 1, CFPB found ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” Martin Luther King, Jr. There is a particular evil going on the State of Michigan, among all the others plaguing that state. During the election hoopla, the debates, the speeches, and attention focused on Michigan’s Black voters, I was appalled that ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The awful transformation of Bernie Sanders has been absolutely breath stopping to see. Sanders has gone from a charming, engaging, provoking, and supremely principled Democratic presidential candidate to a scheming, conniving, devious, supremely unprincipled Democratic presidential contender. In quick succession, Sen. Bernie Sanders has been accused of being a ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Donald Trump’s victories in the Republican primaries may make him seem like a sure winner. But those victories have been achieved by receiving either somewhat less than 40 percent of the votes or somewhat more than 40 percent, but never a majority. The fragmenting of the Republican vote among ...