(ThyBlackMan.com) We’re in Black History Month and we still don’t get it, African people have the oldest, longest and most creative history of any people or ethnic group in the planet; but we don’t do the research or study the research others have done to show just how ingenious our ancestors ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The more I continue to learn about world history, and the roles that Africa and people of African descent played in it, the less enthusiastic I become about celebrating a “Black History Month.” To relegate the recounting of our story to a single month is analogous to the way ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) LGBTQ – private preference or socially perverted menace? LGBTQ should be the personal or private “business” of those who are a part of it. But that is not what is happening. When they throw what should be their personal choices in the face of normal heterosexual people, it becomes our ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The Right Reverend William Barber has revived Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Poor People’s Campaign. He has reminded us that the triple evils of an age were racism, militarism, and poverty. But he has advanced the struggle for social and economic justice by including ecological devastation and the intersection between ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Both of America’s great national parties are coalitions. But it is the Democratic Party that never ceases to celebrate diversity — racial, religious, ethnic, cultural — as its own and as America’s “greatest strength.” Understandably so, for the party is home to a multitude of minorities. It is the domain ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Many people assume that the decision to overturn Roe v. Wade is simply a matter of brute force, as it were – i.e., achieving political victories that force through the appointment of enough previously convinced pro-life justices to achieve that outcome. Consistent with the injudicious temper of our times, no ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) At this point, there should be no surprise when a report surfaces regarding a high-ranking elected official “blackening up” during some period of their life. The problem for Black America is that such figures possess much power over their lives. The latest in a long line of such Whites is ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The “blackface scandal” proved beneficial for two things. It displaced the frenzy over Democratic Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam’s support for a law lifting many restrictions on late-term abortion. It also took away headlines and news print space from the commonwealth’s Democratic lieutenant governor, who faces two sexual assault allegations. But ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Some polls put 76-year-old Joe Biden as the Democratic front-runner for the 2020 presidential election. There is certainly some logic to that reckoning. Joe Biden has far more experience than any of his likely party rivals — 36 years in the Senate, eight years as Barack Obama’s vice president and ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Watching this portion of president Trump’s State of the Union speech, I thought, “This destroys Democrats’, Hollywood and fake news media’s lie that says Trump is racist.” And yet, I knew these leftists would continue their evil divisive Trump-is-racist deception. With the TV cameras on Alice Johnson, a tearful black ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Yes, Democrats want to start a new investigation into already-under-investigation Trump-Russia allegations. And yes, they want to investigate Trump associates like Michael Cohen, Roger Stone and others. But by far the biggest thing Democrats want, now that they have the majority in the House, is to get their hands on ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) President Donald Trump was principled and politically astute to address, in his State of the Union, the horrors taking place now in Venezuela, and then to declare: “Tonight we renew our resolve that America will never be a socialist country.” Venezuela is indeed a poster child for what happens when ...