(ThyBlackMan.com) This political season means full employment for pundits, opinion givers, strategists and soothsayers, on cable television and via social media. It’s interesting to watch the catch phrases, verbal crutches and tics speakers and writers use, which often, when examined, make little or no sense. We all do it. Donald ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Are you ready to vote? Are you registered? These may seem like simplistic questions, especially for those who are aware, but every year some folks are denied access to the polls because they didn’t register on time, or they moved and their address does not match the address the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In 2001, I spoke at the National Black Expo, in Chicago. The theme was centered on one of most troubling factors related to the economic survival of Black people in the United States: The Low Success Rate of African American Businesses. But as Jazzman, Les McCann, so pertinently asked ...
(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 ...