(ThyBlackMan.com) There is little room to debate that of all the sins British citizens settling the Jamestown colony committed, the most reverberating was the construction of Race. Make no mistake about it, Race has proven to be politically expedient and economic fortuitous for white elites residing on the North American continent ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Amidst the ongoing political noise and distractions in Washington, D.C., President Trump continues to focus on and address the nation’s most deep-seated problems. In the wake of signing a temporary funding bill to get the government back open, the president directed attention to one of our biggest problems. Education. Donald ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) No one is paying much attention, but Congress is preparing a two-year budget that would blow past bipartisan spending caps to the tune of $216 billion through 2019. That might be a best-case scenario. The budget watchers at FreedomWorks estimate that when hurricane disaster relief, funding for the border wall, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I am fond of saying, “weak people take strong positions on weak issues.” There is no better example of this than the embarrassing behavior of the weak Congressional Black Caucus (CBC), the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), and the National Urban League (NUL). These groups have ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In 1963, speaking to the noted psychologist Dr. Kenneth Clark, James Baldwin describes the experience of meeting a 16-year-old black boy who declared: “I’ve got no country. I’ve got no flag.” Baldwin continues: “I couldn’t say, ‘you do.’ I don’t have any evidence to prove that he does.” Today, some ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Over the last century, years that ended in “8” have played an outsized role in history. Some prominent examples are: 1918 – With the end of World War I came the collapse of the Ottoman Empire and the formation of a new set of nation-states in what we have come ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “Since 1804 Haiti has maintained national independence. I fling these facts at the feet of the detractors of the Negro and of Haiti. They may help them to solve the problem of her future. They not only indicate the Negro’s courage, but demonstrate his intelligence as well. No better test ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) When the unemployment rate dropped and economic conditions improved under the leadership of President Barack Obama, 45 derided the gains as “fake news”. He suggested that the monthly Employment Situation (www.bls.gov) reports of the Bureau of Labor Statistics were inaccurate and “made up”. These are the monthly reports that detail ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The Schumer shutdown of the federal government epitomizes the Democrats’ entire strategy for working with the remarkable presidency of Donald Trump: No, No, Never-ever. When their Party held the White House, Democrats demanded “clean” spending bills, stripped of any unrelated issues. This more reasonable approach has been replaced with a ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Why are we afraid of racists? Racist people have no or little effect on me. My book “Tribalism” points out what will bring us out of misery. In “It’s OK to Leave the Plantation,” I illustrate the only way out for us. The idea that black folks must wait in ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) President Donald Trump should be celebrating his historic accomplishments on the one-year anniversary of his presidency. Instead, he’s fighting obstructionist Democrats who are making good on their pledge to resist the president’s efforts to “Make America Great Again.” Democrats caused the 2018 government shutdown by voting against a continuing resolution, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) U.S. Sen. Cory Booker made a fool of himself on Tuesday of this week. In a hearing in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee at which Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen testified, Booker loudly professed shock and indignation at the allegations President Donald Trump had referred to certain countries as ...