(ThyBlackMan.com) It is perhaps the central irony of our politics today: We live in an incredibly polarized and partisan moment, but our political parties have never been weaker. As odd as it sounds, political parties in democracies have an important anti-democratic function. Traditionally, the parties shaped the choices put to voters. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I am currently sitting in my office pondering not only the importance of this day but also my role as a Black Nationalist, not a black supremacist, who has tremendous access and even more influence over my students. There is no room to debate my propensity to re-evaluate the intellectual ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Since Colin Kaepernick is not on the sidelines of an actual NFL field this season, the current NFL player who most represents what Kaepernick was pushing for in 2016 is Carolina Panthers safety Eric Reid. After seemingly being blackballed by the NFL this summer by NFL teams and owners, Reid ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) As strange as it seems, I now view the Bush years with nostalgia. Both Big Bush (POTUS 41) and his son Shrub (POTUS 43) incurred the ire of Democrats, with Shrubs Supreme Court-complicit theft of the 2000 election prompting anger and protests. Both Bushes, perhaps because of their love of ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) A buddy shared a heart-wrenching story with me during dinner. His mom was killed Christmas Eve by a drunk driver illegal alien. The illegal had been caught 4 times driving drunk by police, never deported. My buddy is number 9 of his amazing mom’s 13 kids. She was old school ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Don’t let the headline deceive you. I’m hopeful, even somewhat optimistic, about Republican chances on Tuesday, and the thought of losing even one iota of ground to these sanctimonious blowhards repulses me to my core. But I’m also realistic to the possibility that Tuesday could be a good day for ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) When the Supreme Court decided in favor of the group Citizens United in its lawsuit against the Federal Elections Commission back in 2010, it opened the floodgates allowing money to pour into political campaigns that has continued unabated. Pundits predict that at least a record $5 billion will be ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) What is this year’s midterm election about? President Trump wants it to be about him, stumping the country saying that he’s on the ballot. Or that it’s about immigrants, or Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, or tax cuts, or about hurricanes, droughts and catastrophic climate change, or about an economy ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The question of intellectual freedom has always existed within Black America. Even a cursory glance of the storied history of Black America reveals that luminaries such as Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois did not always agree, Marcus Garvey and DuBois were often at each others throat, even our beloved ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) With the attempted assassination of a series of Democratic leaders and the savage murder of 11 worshipers in the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh in the past week, the American people are witnessing one of the most horrific seasons of hate and terror in recent memory. And, while there ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Former President Obama created a massive political divide between the left and the right we see today. His attacks against the right-wingers created an emboldened electorate, and now the fruits of his rhetoric are seen. President Trump is a result of Obama’s political discourse disguised as executive leadership. However, the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) All of us reap what we sow. What goes around also comes around. It’s karma. It’s the boomerang affect. Whatever you want to call it, nobody gets away with anything – not really. Not even the most powerful nation in the world. If I were a Caucasian man of British ...