(ThyBlackMan.com) I like it hot. I am only comfortable at about 80 degrees, so at first glance climate change and the warming of the planet seem welcome. That is, until I begin to understand the fine print. There have been two climate change reports recently. One of them was released in ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) It is pretty clear of the magnitude that college sports has in American society on a seemingly daily basis. There have been numerous scandals involving men’s college basketball, sexual assaults of athletes like college gymnasts, and other issues related to college athletics. The NCAA has been under the microscope and ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) As a member of the infamous Wilmington Ten case in North Carolina from 1972 to 2012, I witnessed firsthand why the criminal justice system in the United States needed to be thoroughly reformed. We had been unjustly sentenced in 1972 to a combined total of 282 years in prison for ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In 2018, the Federal Government increased maximum allowable contributions to retirement plans, such as 401-K, IRA, ROTH IRA, SEP, etc. plans. Why is Congress being generous and increasing retirement contributions? A. Congress really cares about our welfare. They want to help taxpayers. B. This is an automatic inflationary increase. Congress ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Donald Trump was right. When asked why black voters should vote for him, he answered, “What have they got to lose?” Virtually every major city in the country is controlled by Democrats. In every one of those cities, low-income, most black families are forced to send their children to the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Marian Wright Edelman, a trailblazer, freedom fighter and champion of causes that affect the nation’s young, has announced that she’s stepping aside from the Children’s Defense Fund, an organization she founded 45 years ago. “Dear colleagues, supporters, partners and friends, after 45 years as President of the Children’s Defense Fund ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The problem with the 24 hour news cycle is that news memory lasts only 24 hours. Certainly it does not last 70 years – say back to 1962 and Baker v. Carr, which established guidelines regarding the political-question doctrine, or even a few years earlier, to President Eisenhower and how ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Even when Donald Trump was running for president, it was pretty evident that the establishment press was biased against him. The reason for this is not hard to discern; Trump was appealing not only to a majority of Americans, but he was doing so with values and proposals that are ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The 2018 WordCamp Orlando conference has drawn hundreds each year to learn about what is new in technology. Attendees from across the country and even from foreign nations attend to learn business tips, SEO – Search Engine Optimization strategies, applying eCommerce tools, business law, web development, new coding integration, Gutenburg ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I’m a true crime fanatic. Unsolved mysteries and the like fascinate me not in the often grisly result but in how someone could go through with it and the lead up to doing these crimes. Usually, they’re not simply random occurrences with no story. What makes these cases even more ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I worked for 15 years as a teacher at Sumner Elementary School on Chicago’s West Side. This story brought tears to my eyes. An underserved North Lawndale inner-city community being used as a pawn in the governments/Chicago sting operation. Promising beginnings This curious story begins with seemingly-innocent intentions. In the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Do you understand that your misery is job security for D.C. Democrats? We used to teach our kids the value of sportsmanship. We’d tell them something like, “everyone loses. What matters is that you tried your best and you learned something from the loss. You can come back and get ...