(ThyBlackMan.com) As black men in this country, we are constantly attacked from all sides because of racialized fears of black men that mainstream America are psychologically brainwashed to believe from a very young age. Intro: Here are several ways that The System in America specifically targets black men. 1. Racist ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The crass tape of Donald Trump speaking in vulgar terms about women and what he has supposedly done to them worked, ironically, in Trump’s favor during the second debate. It meant that more people tuned in for this debate than otherwise would have and saw Trump’s vastly superior performance ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) There are very rare moments in which I watch TV just to tune in to watch a movie that interests me or a collegiate sports game When I do watch the game more closely, I can’t help but to notice that while the black athletes are playing for bragging rights ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Within days of the October 7 deadline for public comment on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s proposed payday rule, 104 Members of Congress from 32 states, the District of Columbia and the Virgin Islands together called for strong consumer protections, and an end to both regulatory loopholes and predatory debt ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) A few weeks ago I read Republican Presidential nominee Donald Trump assert that President Barack Obama was the founder, or creator of ISIS. I just wanted to say for the record, I could not let this mistruth, as any mistruth stated by a politician regardless of party, pass without clarifying ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Birth of a Nation is about Nat Turner as an enslaved Baptist preacher who lives on a Virginia plantation owned by Samuel Turner. With rumors of insurrection in the air, a cleric convinces Samuel that Nate should sermonize to other slaves, thereby quelling any notions of an uprising. As ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) At the time of writing, BOAN (an acronym for Birth of a Nation) is trending. Not because of the film itself. Or even directly because of the controversy surrounding Nate Parker — its star, director, executive producer, and head writer. But because it performed below most expectations, which is being ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Sexual boasting, emails, tax returns, deplorables — the second presidential debate Sunday featured insults wrapped up in put-downs. This debate was held within miles of Ferguson, Mo., but it was never mentioned. The citizens who offered questions asked about issues — health care, the Supreme Court, energy. The moderators ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Detroit school students, represented by the Los Angeles-based public interest firm Public Counsel, filed suit last month against the state of Michigan, claiming a legal right to literacy based on the 14th Amendment to the Constitution. Ninety-three percent of Detroit’s predominantly black public school eighth-graders are not proficient in ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I have always been a great fan of the idea of “enterprise zones,” originally introduced by the late Rep. Jack Kemp in 1980. Jack Kemp and I were of one mind that free markets and enterprise are the way to reduce poverty, rather than government spending programs. Kemp’s plan ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) A group of Black doctors in Los Angeles and throughout California have been waging a long, valiant, and lonely fight against a practice which has had disastrous effects on the quality of medical care in poor, and underserved communities and harmful consequences for the doctors. The practice is medical ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) To paraphrase Winston Churchill, never has so much been said by so many about so little. This feigned outrage at Trump’s private conversation with Access Hollywood reporter Billy Bush is farcical at best, and a big joke at worst. The media, Democrats, and Republicans are equally hypocritical in their ...