(ThyBlackMan.com) Norman Vincent Peale, the Christian philosopher and author of the best-selling book “The Power of Positive Thinking,” is credited with having coined several axioms that have become fairly commonplace in the American lexicon. Among these is the phrase “We tend to get what we expect.” While this may seem ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I know it sounds like such a long time ago that Barack Obama was our dearly beloved President, but when he was President, we rejoiced in the fact that Harriet Tubman was finally going to be properly recognized at the national level for all the work she did under ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In his book “Discrimination and Disparities,” economist Thomas Sowell notes that a disproportionate percentage of first-born siblings become National Merit scholars compared to siblings born later, presumably because the first-born starts life with no sibling competition for parental attention. This, says Sowell, illustrates the absurdities of expecting equal results ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) President Donald Trump must be guilty of something, the Democrats insist. After all, he tweets mean things and refuses to let White House staffers testify about their private interactions with him. Why else would someone do that? Besides, he’s a Republican, and in the liberal world, that is grounds ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I will always believe every human being deserves equality and has the right to live a life free from violence and harm. No human being deserves to be beaten or degraded. We live in a society that tells us men are by far more violent them women statistically. The problem ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I’m an independent thinker and far from a religious fanatic, but logic causes me to lean toward believing in a supreme force. I say, “Force” instead of “Being” because one of our biggest problems while trying to conceive of God is that we’re so arrogant that we assume God ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Have you recently gone to a funeral and noticed everyone’s attire has changed just a tad? You don’t really see the all black ankle length skirts or women wearing modest suits in navy or black. Men, can be found wearing their Sunday’s best of loud colors or what they ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Virtually every progressive political proposal focuses on a specific group of individuals without assessing the basic fairness of that proposal to the remainder of society. The discussion of forgiving a trillion dollars of student loans should be the cause célèbre. If the United States were to seriously consider forgiving ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Author and Deputy Director of the Justice Program at the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law, Rebekah Diller, states in The Hidden Costs of Florida’s Criminal Justice Fees, “Since 1996, Florida added more than 20 new categories of financial obligations for criminal defendants and, at the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) One of the more interesting storylines of the hit ABC sitcom, Black-ish, is that the Johnson family’s oldest son, Junior, is taking a gap year following his graduating high school to evaluate what he wants to do in life. His decision caused some tension between himself and his parents ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Black Americans for a Better Future Educational Fund (BAFBFED) announces their 7th Annual Black Republican Trailblazer Awards. Along with the Annual Black Republican Trailblazer Awards, there will also be an Economic Summit. The Summit is set for Friday, June 21, 2019 at the Willard Intercontinental Hotel, 1401 Pennsylvania Ave. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “We will do everything we can to keep prices low but increased tariffs lead to increased prices.” Walmart Chief Financial Officer Brett Biggs After negotiating for over a year, the United States and China unleashed their first salvos in an escalating trade war by hiking tariffs on each other’s ...