(ThyBlackMan.com) Rapper/singer Lizzo recently quit a social media platform after a few instances of fat shaming and fatphobia comments made via Twitter. In what appears to be a short time, the artist has clearly reached superstar status to the ire of those who seem less successful. Lizzo was named Time ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “Here are white men poised to run big marijuana businesses selling weed after 40 years of impoverished Black kids getting prison time for selling weed, and their families and futures destroyed. Now, white men are planning to get rich doing precisely the same thing?” – Michelle Alexander, associate professor ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Bernie Sanders doesn’t know when to quit. In movies, that’s an admirable trait. But they only make movies about people who eventually win, even if it’s just a moral victory. When someone who’s lost, and lost badly, doesn’t quit it just comes off as pathetic. And Bernie has become ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Try this thought experiment. Envision the coronavirus, also known as COVID-19, as a living, breathing enemy — which, of course, is exactly what it is. But imagine for a moment that we are in real war with a cognizant, thinking and clever enemy whose sole reason to live is ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Black voters voting behavior is a perplexing dynamic. Their unwavering support of Democrat politicians and the liberal agenda that creates an illusion of caring about their plight of living life at the bottom is stunning. But this didn’t happen overnight. It’s been decades of head in the sand mentality ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Experience has taught me how easy it is to get distracted from the “main thing” and mired in minutiae. The recent public spate between Hilary Rosen, a Democratic strategist, and Nina Turner, co-chair of Bernie Sanders presidential campaign, is such a moment. Just in case you missed it, the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) With the benefit of hindsight, I am sure that I got on my close friend Regina Alhassan’s last nerve by repeating the phrase “Maybe God is trying to tell you something.” My frequent use of that popular axiom was meant to serve as a not so subtle push that ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Joe Biden was sworn into the United States Senate on Jan. 3, 1973. He remained in the Senate until Jan. 15, 2009 — a span of 36 years. If history is any guide, that alone is a disqualifier in Biden’s quest for the White House. What does 36 years ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Well, so much for the “Joe Biden is such a nice guy, he’ll bring back civility to the political discourse” argument. Just hours before he declared a “revival of decency and honor and character” during his Michigan primary victory speech, he berated a Michigander as a “horse’s a**” who ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Across the cable and broadcast news landscape, the term “Trump’s Katrina” is being bandied about on political roundtable discussions and analysis segments focused on COVID-19 coronavirus coverage. Before coronavirus, “Trump’s Katrina” was used plenty of other times as the media’s main focus in political coverage from day one of ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) March is known as Women’s History Month, when the contributions of women to events in history and contemporary society are highlighted. There is no questions that throughout the history of the world and United States that women have been vital to the success of this world and the country ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) We all know the coronavirus started in China. Many of us have watched the information surrounding this virus unfold in the news, and social media. Getting proper information is always better than walking around with fear that shows itself in the form of discrimination and racism. There comes a ...