(ThyBlackMan.com) I can’t wait for this election to be over already. My great uncle used to say nothing in government happens by accident. It’s all been by design. He also would say our feathers are slowly being plucked until we can no longer fly. I took that he was using ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I officially retired from the US Army on 1 August 2004 and vividly recall sitting and watching the 2004 Democratic National Committee convention. At that convention, a fella named Barack Hussein Obama gave the keynote speech. He had just become a State Senator in Illinois. Angela and I listened ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) As a kid, I followed the news. I even used to think the word itself was an acronym for North, East, West, and South. My uncle was the Minister of Information for the Black Panther Party of Self-Defense Memphis Chapter. One of the many political issues they confronted head-on ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Former British Prime Minister during World War II once told me, “To each there comes in their lifetime a special moment when they are figuratively tapped on the shoulder and offered the chance to do a very special thing, unique to them and fitted to their talents. What a ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) During TV ads today, there is a noticeable type of endorser that is new among athletes that did not have access a decade ago. It is becoming common to see college basketball or college football stars in TV ads endorsing products and the well-known phrase, “Name, Image, and Likeness” ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The day the Democratic party, during the Clinton administration embarked upon an official policy of underreporting the unemployment rates of all American workers, professional, blue collar, union, and working-class Americans, they created economic problems. There are unintended negative ripple effects, we are feeling today, because the Clinton administration tampered with our unemployment rates. The ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In the midst of our and other ongoing struggles for liberation, freedom, justice and other indispensable and indivisible goods in the world, I turn constantly to the sacred texts of our ancestors for grounding and guidance, for constantly deepening insight, urgently needed answers, and uplifting and liberating inspiration. This ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In every election cycle, the weight of our decisions at the ballot box are real, but not always as apparent as they should be. Our voting decisions ripple out to sculpt the societal, economic, and environmental landscape in which our children and grandchildren will live. As we edge closer ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) As the world spirals towards war on multiple fronts: Eastern Europe, West Asia and in the not too distant future Taiwan, it behooves us to think about the alternative to global destruction. The only way the planet can survive the madness metastasizing around the world is if more and ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The presidential election will be over in weeks, but it will not end the exhaustion people are having with politics. The November election is the third consecutive presidential election with Donald Trump on the ballot as his party’s nominee. As people grew tired of the Clintons, they are now ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Two things happened within the space of forty-eight hours that raise a red flag for Democratic presidential contender Kamala Harris. The first was the stern dress down by former President Obama of Blacks at a Harris campaign rally in Pittsburgh for even contemplating doing what he termed the unacceptable. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) There is so much turbulence in the electorate today, reading the polls alone do not provide an accurate representation of where the race for President stands. Since Kamala Harris entered the race there has been a palpable increase in enthusiasm in the Democratic Party and, she has attracted many ...