(ThyBlackMan.com) There are moments that I, a progressive Black man, am unsure if I should celebrate or cry after dealing with my people. There is no greater variable that causes my feelings to vacillate between jubilation and depression than issues that reveal African-Americans understanding or ignorance regarding the stony path ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “As long as the color of a man’s skin determines his choice of housing, no investment in the physical rebuilding of our cities will free the men and women living there. … A nation that aspires to greatness cannot be a divided nation–with whites and Negroes entrenched behind barriers ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Recently, the Dominican Republic has been making the news in the U.S. because of the deaths and violent incidents of several tourists. Normally, it’s the DR’s neighbor Haiti that makes the news and often it’s about storms, relief efforts and the mishandling on relief funds, so this is new. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) For Donald Trump, America First is increasingly translating into America alone. He apparently believes that the United States is so dominant that it needs no friends. Trump prefers to act alone, often on impulse, in conflicts across the globe. He views allies as a burden, international law as an ...
Political Opportunism At Its Best; The President, Scottsboro Boys, And The Central Park Jogger Case.
(ThyBlackMan.com) To explain America’s Reconstruction Era to my students, I rely heavily on the psychological fallout that afflicted Americans following the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln on April 14, 1865 by thespian John Wilkes Booth. The most reverberating consequence of the shocking political assassination was the arrival of Andrew Johnson, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The mentor-protégé relationship is one of the most important ones when it comes to business and art. While you will have influences in your vision, a mentor will help shape you in a way that you can meet your vision and your goals. Hell, often times they are or ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Californians, what do you have to lose by voting for Trump?! It’s time for Democrats to defend the consequences of their democratic socialist policies that have ruined the state! After visiting my hometown of Los Angeles, California a couple of weeks ago, for the first time in decades, I ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “Tonight, we renew our resolve that America will never be a socialist country.” That’s from President Trump’s last State of the Union address. I’m sure many people found it as encouraging as I did, especially in light of surveys indicating that socialism is gaining popularity here in the United ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Candidates for office have a long history of promising the sun, the moon, and the stars to get votes, and the higher the office, the bigger the promises. Of course, the bigger the promises, the bigger the disappointment when they inevitably don’t deliver on them. But what one Democrats ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Facebook, the social network, announced on Jan. 30, 2018, that it would ban all ads for Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies in order to stop promotions that it sees as “frequently associated with misleading or deceptive promotional practices.” But, as the New York Times reported about this story, “Mark Zuckerberg, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Presidential candidate Joe Biden recently announced his “Plan for a Clean Energy Revolution and Environmental Justice.” While it might be viewed as a Green New Deal Lite, the plan would inflict serious economic, environmental and societal pain on most of the nation, for no climate benefits. First, as I’ve pointed out here and ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I had a great Dad. I think anyone who knew Joe Sewell would heartily agree, he was a wonderful family man. He taught me so much about being a man – maturity, responsibility, pride and humility – mostly by watching. When one of us, me or my siblings, would ...