(ThyBlackMan.com) Coming out of the first round of debates for the Democratic nomination for President, the defining messages of the upcoming campaign are beginning to take shape. The competing themes are revolution (big ideas), versus restoration (return to a traditional American presidency). The subtext is a generational battle although, unlike ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Instagram’s hashtag #Blackmensmiling beams with the faces of Black men in spite of a world against us. The demand to smile is implicit when entering public spaces to make White people feel safe and unthreatened. Not doing so jeopardizes our safety resulting in police calls—solely out of anxiety and fear—, aggression, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) How does a president agree to one thing and change his mind? That’s what happened with the census citizenship question. The Supreme Court sent it to a lower court and neatly avoided the question. President Trump’s own department decided to print the census forms without the question about citizenship. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) President Lyndon Johnson once said, “If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: ‘President Can’t Swim.’” Presidents, historically, have always had a significant portion of the media opposed to both the administration itself and their policies. Today ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) You gotta hand it to them – it’s an innovative strategy to run for President by taking the position that your country is garbage and that its are people deplorable monsters. It’ll be interesting to see how the Democrats fare on their “America sucks!” platform. The last week has ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) A mystery is stalking newsrooms across America. Journalists are at a loss to explain why farmers, hurt by illegal, punitive tariffs from China, continue to support President Trump. Like the astronomers who couldn’t explain deviations in Neptune’s orbit, pundits don’t know why farmers are behaving the way they do. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I know I’m not the only Trump supporter who is tired of progressives maliciously accusing President Trump and his supporters of racism. They’ve used the slander against conservatives for years, and it has only intensified in the Trump era. Of all their other nasty smears, they get the most ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In a recent moment of reflection regarding her brilliant film When They See Us, Ava Duvernay addressed a reoccurring issue among Black America. The issue? How much trauma and injustice can African-Americans witness before it irreparably damages the Soul? Duvernay’s assertion that historical recollections are crucial to Black America coming ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I don’t know about you, but I’m feeling pretty good about the election after last week’s two-day Democratic clusterfark, and the president has got to be feeling pretty good too, since he just won it. Oh, we have 17 more months of media pimping of whichever commie candidate is ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Sometimes novels that start out slowly turn out to be the books you just can’t put down. Similarly, German writer/director Jan Zabeil’s story about a modern family triad gone askew isn’t easy to discard. Like a painter, he takes his time etching in figures before brushing in colors, textures ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Which are you? A dreamer or a thinker? Maybe you feel you’re both? While we’re not talking about the hybrid thinker-dreamer, let us know down below. I consider myself more of a thinker. While I do dream like most, I tend to sit and analyze my dreams afterwards. One ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Being a head coach or manager in Major League Baseball, the NBA, NFL, or NHL can be a very lucrative position. Being paid millions a year while being accommodated with quality room, board, and airport flights are some of the perks of having to manage various personalities on a ...