(ThyBlackMan.com) News outlets are reporting that Israel has surrounded Gaza by land and sea in an historic blockade as it prepares to launch a living hell on Hamas, the governing body of Gaza. The US and other nations sit paralyzed as they give silent witness to what is expected to ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “If you’re not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.”-Malcolm X The biggest news story in the world right now is taking place in Gaza. Although the mainstream corporate media coverage began with rockets ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Most people know what a runaway train is a train that has no physical way of stopping or slowing down. Typically only stopping as a result of derailment, crashing into a barrier or running out of tracks. Our world resembles a runaway train as it races down the tracks ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) A day after the massacre by Hamas of Israeli civilians and the taking of Israeli hostages, I asked this question on my Facebook Page: “What should Blacks say and do about the conflict?” Some respondents denounced the attacks by Hamas. Other denounced the continued blockade of Gaza as “inhumane” treatment by ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) President Joe Biden and the United States have been forceful in their support for Israel in the aftermath of last weekend’s terrorist attacks by Hamas. Biden’s remarks were powerful and unequivocal. His condemnation of Hamas was clear-sighted and forthright. There was no moral equivalence between Israel and Hamas. His message ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) For years, historians have wondered what would have happened had Sen. Robert F. Kennedy not been assassinated. Kennedy, at the time of his death, was able to forge an unlikely political alliance between working-class whites and Blacks. As historian Jeff Shesol wrote, “RFK recognized—and shared, by the time of ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) It is widely understood that we as a country are in fact governed under a system called a Republic; in long form a Constitutional Federated Representative Republic – a form of a Democracy. However, we have a political faction that insists on justifying their intrepidness in usurping our foundational ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “We are not aware of any other case in which a state legislature — faced with a federal court order declaring thorat its electoral plan unlawfully dilutes minority votes and requiring a plan that provides an additional opportunity district — responded with a plan that the state concedes does ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) It hit me very hard. I was filled with an abundance of emotions. The like of which I have never known. I was mad, upset, disappointed, confused, outraged, dumbfounded, amazed, astonished, depressed, fearful and bewildered. How could this have happened? It shook me so much that a feeling of ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Music and song has always served as a catalyst to help Black/African Americans maintain a sense of internal calmness and hope during strife; cultivate, embrace and express individuality; as well as represented that living connection to and displayed through craftily-strung together lyrics trophies of cultural history, knowledge and heritage. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) There’s an African proverb it goes “When you want to measure the wellness of a community you ask: ‘How are the children doing?’” In America, the answer is very clear on how it treats its children. It is the same answer as it treats its middle aged and seniors. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) It is how most of us live, in and with our routines. So much so that at times if something interrupts them or one is taken away our world seems to crash. Case in point I have to have my cup of coffee in the morning. If not then ...