(ThyBlackMan.com) It never fails that at least one of my student’s response to Frederick Douglass’ infamous speech What to the Slave is the Fourth of July with a question of “How in the world did Douglass escape the building after those harsh words?” The referenced speech delivered on July 5, 1852, in ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) During the 2016 presidential campaign, Donald Trump directly appealed to African American voters for their vote, asking them, “What do you have to lose?” Trump should have received more credit for this. Republicans have often been criticized for not wooing African Americans from Democrats, who crucially depend on African ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Since George Floyd was slain there have been ten national live voter polls taken. The polls predictably show that Biden has a whopping lead over Donald Trump among Black voters. But they also show that a lot of Blacks still aren’t buying Joe Biden. They’re buying Trump. There are ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Not long ago, President Donald Trump was talking about sending active-duty military troops to suppress riots in American cities. That threat brought not only criticism from retired generals but resistance from his defense secretary, Mark Esper. But Trump has found another way to bring the hammer down. Last week, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In what may be the most obvious statement of the year, the United States is not united anymore. The year 2020 has shown that even the most basic things like health care during a pandemic and order on American streets will be used and manipulated for political advantage by ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Leftists have always hated law enforcement. Maybe it’s because they simply don’t like police, or maybe it’s because they desire to be the ones who decide who gets punished and for what. The riots exposed something liberals aren’t ready for the public to be aware of, at least not ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Donald has no chance of winning re-election in 2020 for the very same reason that I pointed out that Hillary Clinton was a “Democratic Disaster Waiting to Happen” 4 months prior to the 2016 election – because the people hated her. The voters didn’t know Donald Trump at the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) You should be eternally grateful that the worst thing you can really say about Donald Trump is that he’s mean to knuckleheads on social media – and that literally is the worst thing you can say about Donald Trump without stepping into the territory of my new book, The 21 ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) My patriotic mood began re-watching Whitney Houston’s spectacular performance of our National Anthem at Super Bowl XXV in 1991. Whitney’s rendition was re-released as a single after the 9/11 terrorists attacks. She donated all proceeds to charity. https://bit.ly/2OFtMdb Serendipitous, these remarkable quotes about America appeared on my radar. “Fourscore ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Civil rights icon Rep. John Lewis, a top aide to Martin Luther King Jr., died last week. In 1965, Lewis suffered a fractured skull when he led 600 civil rights workers on a peaceful protest that turned violent as Lewis and the protesters were attacked by the police on ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Kanye West held his first campaign rally this week in South Carolina. The clickbait headlines splashed across the internet are characterizing the event as “bizarre,” “chaotic” and “rambling.” But Americans might want to take the campaign seriously, even if they shouldn’t take the man himself seriously. Since West announced ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) President Donald Trump tells us he’s an ace at cognition and intellect tests, never mind cheating on the SAT. No president ever bragged about burning bright as a “genius” before, but you know our guy. He doesn’t kid, especially about himself. As a diversion from the country convulsed in ...