(ThyBlackMan.com) The massive economic destruction being wrought by the COVID-19 epidemic and the government’s attempt to mitigate the impact on American families and businesses raises a fundamental question: is the sum total of America’s greatness measured by its markets or by its people? Americans have served the world, and particularly ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Last weekend, the 2020 NFL Draft was appointment viewing as it was the most watched NFL Draft ever. Because much of America was restricted to staying at home due to the coronavirus, options for live sporting events has been limited for over a month. The huge popularity of the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) There are those that may not mind the title People of Color. It can be seen, by some, as a unifier and a call to stand together to fight racism and oppression here in the US. However, the term “colored” has a history in this country and it is ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) This week, new evidence emerged in the sexual assault allegation by former Joe Biden staffer Tara Reade against the presumptive 2020 Democratic presidential nominee. According to Business Insider, four people have stated that Reade told them contemporaneously about her accusation that Biden forcibly penetrated her with his fingers in ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Mary and I live in a tiny town in West Virginia. Our grocery shopping options are 26 miles away in Maryland and 45 miles in Virginia. Maryland stores refused to allow us to enter because we did not have masks. We drove to Virginia. It was refreshing seeing Virginians ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Imagine being on social media in one of the many groups, and you have a friend that is a black man married to a white woman. He disagrees with you at times about politics, and community…he gives you the Republican vibes in the worse way. You find yourself wondering ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Pressure is mounting for former Vice President Joe Biden to finally address the allegations made by Tara Reade, a former staffer when Biden was a senator in the mid-1990s. Up until now, the legacy media has formed a bit of a barricade around the Democrat’s presumptive nominee for president ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) No matter where you fall on the spectrum of coronavirus concern – anywhere between “it’s the greatest hoax every perpetrated on the public” to “we’re all going to die” – there is a dataset ready to reinforce your preconceived notion. These numbers are being used to manipulate the public ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) It is a fact that the Democratic Party has from its inception been committed to the subjugation of human beings they deemed as chattel or insignificant. The Democratic Party Platform in 1840, 1844 and 1848 held that: “All efforts by abolitionists … to interfere with questions of slavery … ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) They’re making a lot of noise up in Nova Scotia. Local activists of African and Native American descent are holding big businesses and the government accountable for polluting their water and causing an uptick in cancer cases. They’re sounding the alarm and applying pressure. The surprising but very worthy champion of their efforts ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) A $349 billion program created to assist America’s small businesses was launched on April 3 to provide payroll, utilities, rent and more for eligible applicants screened by the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA). On April 16 – less than two weeks later — this national stimulus enacted in the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) There is one indisputable fact about the 2020 Democratic presidential primary: former Vice-President Joe Biden’s bid for the nomination was reeling and on the ropes before he was rescued by Black voters, beginning with the decisive endorsement of veteran Congressman James Clyburn, the widely respected custodian of the “fire ...