(ThyBlackMan.com) No one likes criticism; let’s get that out of the way. What we want is constructive advice on how to get better or how to solve problems. When it comes to me, the only time I want advice is when I ask for it. Over the years I’ve had ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Are Black voters so loyal to Democrats that their issues are ignored? Donald Trump suggests as much, arguing that blacks had “nothing to lose” by voting for him. Now a column by Farai Chideya at FiveThirtyEight cites academics who make a similar argument. In recent elections, about 90 percent of ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Election year politics generates much rhetoric and confusion. And the media often adds its spin. But, fortunately, there are some books around that deal with reality and can cut through the nonsense. Most of these books were not written during this election year, but what they presented can be ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The University of Chicago’s president, Dr. Robert J. Zimmer, wrote a Wall Street Journal article, titled “Free Speech Is the Basis of a True Education.” In it, he wrote: “Free speech is at risk at the very institution where it should be assured: the university. Invited speakers are disinvited ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I listened to Bernie Sanders tonight on the live feed, and quite frankly I was deeply disappointed with his speech. It sounded to me that he wanted us to join Hillary Clinton to transform the Democratic Party. Hillary Clinton is the same person who wanted to bomb Isis over the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Ordinarily, it is not a good idea to base how you vote on just one issue. But if black lives really matter, as they should matter like all other lives, then it is hard to see any racial issue that matters as much as education. The government could double the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) As if to compound the insult to American power represented by the world’s vociferous rejection of the Bush doctrine, the U.S. found itself in 2008 facing the biggest economic disaster since the great recession. The collapse was so stark, so sudden, and so unavoidable that several of America’s largest and ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Had Mr. Bernie Sanders kept his vow to fight all the way to the convention floor, the #DNCLeak may have been the unique leverage needed to flip superdelegates. Mr. Bernie Sanders, whose campaign was built on the quest for a political revolution, talked tons of sh*it for weeks about fighting ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “The word ‘Ubuntu’ comes from one of the Bantu dialects of Africa. It is a traditional African philosophy that gives an understanding of us as human beings in relation with the rest of the world. According to Ubuntu, there exists a common link between us all and it is through ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) With the declines in abortion rates over the past 20 years, Pro- Choice and Pro-Life means something totally different to the single-parent mother and father these days. Pro-choice means that the mother can choose to get child-support whenever she wants. Pro-life means that the father wants to be involved in ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Even though I’ve read the Constitution many times, I had to check it again just to be sure I hadn’t missed what Hillary is demanding. Not only does Hillary Clinton have no constitutional authority to demand that the media stop discussing her obvious health condition, neither is there any precedent ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The most dangerous enemy we face in the African American community today is neither the Caucasian man nor the police. It is rather the slave mindset that infects generation after generation within the African American community. It is the mindset than promotes self instead of unity. It is the individualistic ...