(ThyBlackMan.com) When first hearing about TV-One’s cancellation of Roland Martin’s show for “budgetary” reasons, my immediate reaction was bull crap. I am convinced that his show was cancelled because some advertisers and some Trumpets were outraged because of Roland’s Afrocentric perspective when reporting and interpreting news. Though I didn’t always agree ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Last Monday was supposed to be a day in which African people in St. Petersburg, Florida would come together to celebrate one of their heroes in MLK, but instead it was another real life episode of Colonial State Terror imposed on the African community by the corrupted city government of ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In 2013, House Republicans shut down the federal government in a doomed effort to defund then President Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act. It lasted 17 days and accomplished nothing. Amazingly, Democrats have decided to follow the same lame playbook. Back in 2013, Obama called it the “Republican shutdown” — and ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) This year, as every year, I will be joining the hundreds of thousands who will be arriving in Washington, D.C., for the March for Life. March for Life notes the anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision, Jan. 22, 1973, which legalized abortion on demand in our country. The event ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Attorney General Jeff Sessions gets it wrong. On core issue after core issue — civil rights, voting rights, women’s rights, police reform and particularly mass incarceration — he is a destructive force. The United States locks up more people per capita than any country in the world. China, run by ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I guess that we should not be shocked when a bit of sadness or depression results from the realization that there are very few independent black writers addressing pertinent issues affecting Black America. If one is not careful about their thought processes, they will find themselves believing that the Black ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) On Jan. 15 we celebrated Dr. King’s Day as a national day of service. This was as it should be. Our love, dedication and service to others were at the heart of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s prophetic message to America – even as his vision for our future ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In the era of President Donald Trump, Democrats think presidents should be impeached over policy differences. In Trump’s case, the Democrats accuse him of winning the election by “colluding” with Russia to win. After nearly a year of investigations, there does not appear to be any evidence. Yet many Democrats ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) By any standard it was a bad couple of days for Trump on the racial front. The start was the “shithole nations” slur of Haiti and African nation. Then there were the denials and refutations of the denials that Trump did racially slur the nations. That was topped by some ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Part of what is so disheartening about President Donald Trump leading the Republican Party is discovering that thoughtful people–perhaps even people who you admire–will ignore, excuse, or even endorse Trump’s worst aspects. The kinds of people who saw profound meaning in Barack Obama’s annoying idiosyncrasies (omitting the words “our Creator,” ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The month of January is known for being a beautiful start to a new year, cold climates, and eye-opening snow in many U.S. states. It is also the birth month of many historical luminaries including political activist Angela Davis, businesswoman extraordinaire Oprah Winfrey, and famed music composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Black Republicans were big winners in 2017 and they don’t even know it. I know it sounds counter intuitive with a polarizing president like Donald Trump in the White House, but Blacks within the party and the Black community in general can benefit from a Trump presidency, if they know ...