(ThyBlackMan.com) Former Vice President Adlai Stevenson once said, “A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.” It’s hard to imagine a better analogy than that for the way the current Democratic Party pontificates on ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) With metronomic regularity, some well-motivated billionaire announces that he wishes the government would increase his taxes. The latest entrant is Eli Broad. Writing in The New York Times, Broad praises private philanthropy and the capitalist system “that’s yielded some of the greatest gains in prosperity and innovation in human ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Black excellence has been on the rise for quite some. Historically speaking, Black and African-inspired culture has always been present in the national and international landscape, but with the event of the billion-dollar grossing Black Panther movie. The blockbuster film firmly situated Ryan Coogler as an A-list director, and ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Arthritis is one of the biggest problems for people around the world. As the body ages, it becomes one of the most debilitating conditions that aging people can get. The United States estimates list up to 54.4 million affected by some form of arthritis. This represents 22.7% of the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) President Trump has been playing a high-stakes game of poker with Democrats over the issue of illegal immigration. After going several rounds with Democrats that included various concessions, he went “all-in” by announcing that there would be raids to pick up the lawbreakers. These are to round up people ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In America “black” people are stereotyped every day of the week. African-Americans are profiled as predators, animals, criminals, thugs, niggers, hoochies, knuckleheads and chicken heads. Every other ethnic group (including Africans, Haitians and Jamaicans) looks down on the American-born “black” man. He is generally expected to be ignorant, dangerous ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Jews, Japanese, Filipinos, Native Americans have all received reparations. If there has ever been a group entitled it’s Black/African Americans the government reneged on the 40 acres and a mule leaving an unpaid debt, however, let’s not get it twisted…reparations…aren’t the end all, be all. On the premise reparations ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I want to share my own convictions as to why followers of Jesus should not smoke pot. I encourage you to consider them prayerfully before the Lord. First, for the sake of clarity and simplicity, I’m not addressing the issue of the medical use of marijuana, as prescribed by ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else,” Charles Dickens wondered. He feared that if he wasn’t the hero, then he would surely be the victim of his own life. Dickens, like most of us, would ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Deportations are long overdue. There has not been an executed deportation program since “Operation Wetback” during the Eisenhower administration, more than 60 years ago. Since then there have been two major amnesties in place of deportations. Both failed to produce the promised improved immigration policy that was part of ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In case you missed it, some news from the past week… So, according to Mitch McConnell, Barack Obama’s presidency was reparations and, besides, no one around today is responsible for slavery. If you didn’t catch writer Ta-Nehisi Coates’ clapback: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/06/ta-nehisi-coates-testimony-house-reparations-hr-40/592042/?utm_campaign=atlantic-politics-and-policy&utm_content=edit-promo&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_term=2019-06-19T15%3A21%3A48 ‘nuf said. … Is Joe Biden, saying he “can ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) A congressional hearing was held on a bill to study reparations for blacks as payback for slavery. https://ihr.fm/2FlhSB6 Reparations is simply another worm Democrat presidential candidates will put on the hook of their fishing rods to catch black votes. I am a black man who is proud, grateful and understands how ...