(ThyBlackMan.com) I attended the memorial services this week honoring Jesse Jackson, joining thousands who gathered to celebrate the life of a man whose voice shaped the modern civil rights movement. As speaker after speaker reflected on Rev. Jackson’s extraordinary life — his preaching, his presidential campaigns, his global advocacy for justice ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Mad Max Trump and Thunderdome Netanyahu have taken the world to war again, offering us a pre-apocalyptic picture of apprehensions, vulnerabilities, catastrophes and consequences to come, pretending an existential threat to them when they, themselves, are a real threat to the world and their own countries. For anyone with ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Last week I wrote about something my father, who is white, has said for years: when many white Americans hear the phrase “white privilege,” they respond by listing all the ways their lives have been hard. But if you talk about “white advantage,” the conversation changes. Advantage is measurable. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) It is difficult for most people to understand just how restrictive, and demeaning, the roles women played in the old days where patriarchal customs prevailed. It was the Franco-Swiss philosopher, Jean Jacques Rousseau, who said, “Man is born free; and everywhere he is in chains.” If this was true ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Last night I had dinner with King Solomon and he told me in Proverbs 14:12 “There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.” He then asked me if I had heard about the big announcement recently made by ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The Clinton administration gave President Donald Trump a gift that, keeps on giving, when it comes to unemployment rates. If we do a reality check and just look at the economy as it really is, we see, it’s Democrats and Democratic leadership, who are sustaining, and propping-up, “the Trump administration’s image, to what extent it may be viewed as positive, when ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) It’s not debatable that the most famous and powerful professional sports league in the U.S. is the National Football League. The NFL’s TV contracts and ratings during the course of every NFL season are some of the best proof of that. Despite the fact that no actual football game ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) America is struggling to describe what it is living through in President Donald Trump’s second term. The language we keep reaching for — “authoritarian,” “strongman,” “dictator” — doesn’t quite fit. Those words imply a rupture…a dramatic overthrow of democracy. What we are witnessing instead appears more incremental, more procedural, and ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I watched the coverage of the joint American-Israeli airstrikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities with a profound sense of relief and long-overdue justice. Back in January 2006, I wrote “Iran: A Ticking Nuclear Bomb” to highlight then-Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s Holocaust denial and the regime’s explicit threats to wipe Israel ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) During my time as a public servant in the state of Ohio, I learned a simple truth: markets work best when they are open, competitive, and accountable. When they are not, families pay the price. That’s why a recent lawsuit filed by Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost and the U.S. Department ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Every March, Women’s History Month brings a familiar rhythm of celebration—panels, proclamations, and tributes to pioneers who shattered glass ceilings. Those stories matter. But if we are honest, the story of women in America cannot be told without confronting another truth: this nation has been built, quite literally, on ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Sometimes a verse of scripture is so well known, so easily remembered and so often quoted, that it seems almost banal to focus on it, or examine it for study or meditation. Psalm 8:4 is one such verse; for who can misunderstand so simple and straightforward a scripture. The ...