(ThyBlackMan.com) Across the cable and broadcast news landscape, the term “Trump’s Katrina” is being bandied about on political roundtable discussions and analysis segments focused on COVID-19 coronavirus coverage. Before coronavirus, “Trump’s Katrina” was used plenty of other times as the media’s main focus in political coverage from day one of ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The stock market on Monday took a look at the world around it and swooned, delivering a decisive blow to the Sanders candidacy and its proposed revolution. Who wants a political revolution when economic forces are hard at work wringing vitality and optimism out of the economy? Isn’t that ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The Democratic presidential field is down to two old, white males, former Vice President Joe Biden and Sen. Bernie Sanders. Though they are said to represent two polar-opposite wings of the party, on one issue, they are in complete agreement. They both have solemnly pledged to destroy millions of ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) So many Americans are struggling to survive. Many of us are one bad paycheck from homeless, and more people than we realize can’t afford to eat every day. Some of us are battling illness and disabilities and can’t afford the supplies nor medication to fight for wellness. This is ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Four federal house members, last week, voted against a bill seeking to make lynching a federal hate crime. As a freelance journalist having written about the atrocities perpetuated on Blacks during the civil rights era this writer is amazed and astonished at their immoral act! This bill has been ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) If you tell me how you spend your money, I can tell you what your values are. You say you are a Christian but neither tithe nor have a church home. You say support civil rights but have no connection to a civil rights organization. You love your alma mater never contribute ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I never thought, in all my years of serving the most underserved black people on the planet, that I would be called an “Uncle Tom.” However, that is exactly what happened to me and other community leaders and patriots last week after we attended a Black History Month event hosted by ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) On a joyous California stage late on Super Tuesday, former Vice President Joe Biden declared to a cheering crowd that reports of his campaign’s death had been greatly exaggerated. The legacy of the “Obama-Biden” democrat was alive and ready to make a second run at the White House. The ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Super Tuesday could not have delivered a more resounding referendum on what Democratic voters want in 2020. It was an affirmation and a repudiation: An affirmation of calls for unity and a repudiation of calls for revolution. It also said something about the power of money in politics. The ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Imagine that a firefighter saves you from a burning building. Would you immediately call your family physician and thank him for saving your life? Of course not! Imagine that President Trump just issued a pardon to your son to release him from prison. Would you immediately call former President ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Our nation, these United States, is founded on the principles of racism and patriarchy. They are reflected in our very constitution, where enslaved persons were counted as a fraction of a person, and only men of property were allowed the right to vote. The filthy inequality at the foundation of this nation ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I don’t think anyone would argue that America has a tragic history of lynching, and as much as some would like to think, that part of America’s history is not so long ago. As a matter of fact, some of us would argue that the potential for lynching is still ...