(ThyBlackMan.com) After the shellacking Republicans just took in the midterm elections, a common refrain among conservatives is that we should all be terrified of what comes next. Whether you get your commentary from X, Instagram or friends on Facebook, you may have heard fear that the Democrats will vastly expand ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) There is perhaps no more dangerous appointment in a constitutional republic than an attorney general who mistakes his obligation to defend the Constitution for a choice to defend the president. Todd Blanche is demonstrating, with alarming regularity, that he does not understand the difference. Once Donald Trump’s skilled personal ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “The struggle is a never-ending process. Freedom is never really won. You earn it and win it in every generation.” — Coretta Scott King When people hear the words “civil rights museum,” they often think of history. They think of photographs, artifacts, and stories from another era. They imagine a ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) This is a sankofa retrieval of memories and thoughts on an anniversary past that reaffirms our continuing commitment on this our 61st anniversary. The founding and developmental unfolding of our organization Us, September 7, 1965, was in a fateful and furious year, a time and context of decisive turning. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) They organized. They mobilized. They led. They delivered. And now, with Keisha Lance Bottoms as Georgia’s Governor-elect, Black women are no longer standing in the background of history. They’re standing at the altar. The bridesmaids have become the brides. This moment is bigger than one election and bigger than ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The instinct to get even must be nearly overwhelming. After two years of getting pounded every day by the Trumpers, of fighting hard when you know you’re going to lose every vote, of indignities large and small inflicted on the Democratic minority, the tables are suddenly turned. The minority ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) There is a habit in how America measures Black men who reach the summit of its politics. We want them to mean something before we let them do anything. Be the symbol first. Stir the blood, put a lump in the throat, make folks believe again, and the governing ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Does the government work for us, or do we work for the government? We pay its taxes, obey its laws and regulations, finance its wars and submit to its surveillance. We are told that all of this is necessary for personal safety, collective prosperity and national security. Yet the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The headline item from Tuesday’s elections is that Democrats wiped out Republicans in the House and the Senate. Congratulations. But do our newly minted senators, with their terms ending in January 2033, realize that they will be the cohort of legislators who face the exhaustion of Social Security’s retirement ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) When President Woodrow Wilson addressed a joint session of Congress on April 2, 1917, to call for a declaration of war against Germany, there was a just and reasonable cause for Congress to authorize that war. German submarines had been sinking boats in the Atlantic Ocean and killing Americans ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) There is an African proverb that says, “The child who is not embraced by the village will burn it down to feel its warmth”. It is the feeling of invisibility being felt by our youth. It is where they feel disregarded or overlooked by society. During the 2015 riot ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “Are we there yet?” Almost. It is a question that many have been asking since the election results of 2024 were announced. “There” being the next election to cancel what they feared would be a less than kosher political environment. None probably imagined that it would be far worse ...