(ThyBlackMan.com) In a meeting in the spring, 1935 with his Attorney General, Homer Cummings, Franklin Roosevelt railed against the Supreme Court. Cummings was even more blunt, “They mean to destroy us, we will have to find a way to get rid of the present membership of the Supreme Court.” FDR ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) There has been no shortage about the importance of voting over the last several months. If it isn’t the various political commericals where candidates tout their superiority over their opponent, it is ads that tell the American public to participate in voting. Voting is always more emphasized during an ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) There is a nearly unavoidable danger that creeps up on us so smoothly that we neither recognize its arrival nor its presence. Yet, each of us is susceptible to this evil and the vast majority of us will fall victim to it. The danger that I am referring to ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) As we look back on the accomplishments in this era of Covid-19 and the “new normal” it is important to remember we are all leaders by default. Reflecting on my class assignment this past week as a professor at the renowned Richard Daniel Henton University in Chicago, where this ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) No matter where you fall on the political spectrum, the entire nation is fixated on, not only the fact that President Donald Trump is infected with COVID-19, but what we all want to know is, what’s the deal with those medicines his doctors are giving him? Since testing positive ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) A lot of people told a lot of people that a lot of people wanted to see me dead. Rumor has it that it was because of something that I’ve written; yeah, you know, something that they read. My paranoia is afraid of being scared and I’m extremely fearful. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) As I sit on the back porch and reflect back on some of my favorite memories over the years. I can’t help but to write about some of my favorite memories from my time in this very chaotically cold world that we live in. I sometimes feel like I ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Oftentimes, when racism gets discussed is on the individual level when a person says something that would be considered racist or a person intentionally treats someone badly due to their race. One of the more forgotten parts of systematic and institutional racism is racism in health care. Unsurprisingly, Black ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character,” declared Martin Luther King at the foot of the Lincoln Memorial, in 1963. Lincoln, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) It’s a meaningless platitude in a sea of meaningless platitudes. In fact, most of what Joe Biden says is a bunch of meaningless platitudes. But one sticks out, to me at least, more than the others – that he will be “president of all Americans.” Maybe that sounds good ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Comedian Chris Rock, hosting “Saturday Night Live,” summarized the feelings shared by much of President Donald Trump-hating America when he quipped, “President Trump is in the hospital from COVID and I just wanna say my heart goes out to COVID.” The audience then erupted in laughter. During the Barack ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Originally, this Black Rock/5 Dive edition was going to be on “Being Black and Loving Black Metal” but it became too unwieldy of an article so expect that next time. This time we’re going into a Black rock vocalist I’ve mentioned before in Militia Vox. An Intro to Militia ...