(ThyBlackMan.com) When people say to me, “I don’t see color”, I usually ask if they have “seen” an optometrist. Colorblindness is a medical condition. While I believe that most people who utter those words mean well, they’re woefully misguided. In effect, they’re advocating for all of us to pretend that ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) During a profanity laced rant on Easter Sunday, Donald Trump threatened to bomb Iran into the stone age, then he gave Iran an ultimatum, a deadline to open the Straits of Hormuz. Trump reiterated his threats again Monday providing an Eight PM Eastern Time deadline on Tuesday April 7th for ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Why does the sight of so many Black men sleeping on L. A’s sidewalks draw barely a glance if that? Each time I see a sidewalk sleeper I ask that because it’s such a common sight that I barely take note anymore. But they are there and the great ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Congress may be on recess. But the waitress covering a double shift, the nurse working overnight, the warehouse worker racing a delivery clock, and the rideshare driver chasing fares didn’t get the memo. America is still working. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries recently urged Speaker Mike Johnson to reconvene ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) On one of his recent shows, Bill Maher stated (and later posted on X), “Democrats are not going to win the midterms. Republicans are going to lose it.” In response, Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) asked on X, “(1) Is he right? (2) Why?” OK, Senator, I’ll give this a ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The president’s fiscal 2027 budget is out, and I have two reactions. The first will sound familiar: Like so many budgets before it, this is not a serious effort to put America’s government on a sustainable path. The second is more important: It would be a mistake to dismiss ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) About the war against Iran, most polls find it especially unpopular among Democrats, independents and even some Republicans who feel double-crossed because President Donald Trump campaigned against “endless wars” and promised not to start a new one. As to Trump’s criticism of “endless wars,” supporters should not have taken ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The subminimum wage for tipped workers is a legacy of slavery. After the Civil War, many employers in hospitality and rail service hired newly freed Black workers into jobs where tips often replaced wages. Tips became, for too many workers, the wage itself. That injustice still lives on today ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) It has become fashionable to pour scorn on the past, never to look back for to do so betrays one’s negativity, to always look forward and most certainly never to go back; whatever that may imply. One famous General even went so far as to burn the bridges his army ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) This is the part of Hip Hop that never feels new, no matter how many times we see it play out. It starts with momentum. A young man gets hot, not just for a season, but in a way that feels like it could last. The streets recognize him. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) As we close out two months of commemoration and celebration of the history of our people, I reach back to retrieve and reaffirm thoughts on centering and cultivating Black love. It is not an exaggeration to state that there is no issue of greater importance, urgency or enduring impact ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor ...