(ThyBlackMan.com) A plan so crazy it just might work. That’s the essence of the pitch for a universal basic income. And it’s starting to sound reasonable to conservatives. They hope it will make welfare more efficient, but that’s its biggest problem. You get your Trumpbux yet? That would be the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) If you weren’t convinced that Democrats are crazy, insane and a danger to us all, I now have clear and irrefutable proof. It’s hydroxychloroquine. That’s the anti-malaria drug that has become a weapon in our arsenal to defeat coronavirus. The stories of its remarkable success in the battle versus ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) If president Trump were to call me and tell me he needed my help with improving his standing within the Black community and he would give me access to anyone in his administration to help me accomplish the mission, who would I choose? I would choose Andy Wheeler, Larry ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) P.T. Barnum, of Barnum & Bailey Circus fame, is alleged to have coined, “There’s a sucker born every minute.” I suppose, given the super-charged times we live in, it’s now down to every thirty seconds. And Trump’s administration and followers have certainly supplied the clowns. The president criticized Speaker ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Perhaps I am a bit edgy due to corona virus house arrest. Just kidding. However, this guy’s email really annoyed me. “We’re in lock down and people are hurting wondering how they will pay their bills. All this was not happening 4 years ago. Over the last 4 years ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The “big and bad” United States is seeing its world dominance recede. We are being vanquished both by a virus and by the ignorance of the “Commander in Chief’. We now know that there are not enough tests to detect the coronavirus, nor enough ventilators to treat all of ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Louisiana, along with many other states, are under a stay at home mandate. Everyone is supposed to do everything they can to do their part to help flatten the curb by practicing social distance. There are still those that don’t seem to understand how serious this virus is, they ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) As Americans observe social distancing guidelines and quarantines during the coronavirus pandemic, it is important that we acknowledge the efforts and the dedication of those who are laboring against the virus, whether those in public service or health care workers, the beleaguered troops on the front lines. I believe ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) My little town for years had on its city council a retired firefighter. Fellow lawmakers joked that he wanted to require that everything be covered with concrete. This councilman’s single-mindedness would certainly prevent fires. Trouble is, it would also have bankrupted town taxpayers and produced a hard, gray world ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The new unemployment numbers are out and there’s really no way to butter this biscuit, folks. Unless America‘s economic engine is restarted, we will be plunged into a Great Depression. Since the global pandemic hit our shores, more than 22 million Americans have filed for unemployment benefits. And the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) There is good news and there is bad news as it relates to the 2020 Census, which is currently in the self-reporting phase. During the self-reporting phase, the census relies on the citizenry of the United States to voluntarily report — either online, by phone or by mail — ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) How is it that celebrities like Oprah see negative racial disparities in every facet of American life, except in the one industry that deliberately kills? Oprah recently opined about the disproportionate impact of the coronavirus in black communities. COVID-19, according to the guru of talk, is “taking us out.” ...