(ThyBlackMan.com) Nike recently unveiled Colin Kaepernick as the face of the “Just Do It” campaign. While this has some white people extremely angry (that is a discussion for another day), it has some blacks concerned about that this could mean beneath the surface. Granted many applauded Nike for taking the stance ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) By now, we are used to seeing our nation’s unions do everything that they can to put their interests ahead of the industries that they are trying to undercut. The most storied example is how the unions put their own agendas ahead of the auto companies and the car-buying public, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) This week we remember the 911 attack from almost 20 years ago where terrorists stole airplanes and used them as weapons to strike the towers in New York, the Pentagon and a failed attempt to strike in Washington DC. But beyond conspiracy theories, there is alot you do not know. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) During what is usually a slow news period – the end of August until Labor Day – there has been so much “news” that it has been like drinking from the proverbial firehose; difficult, if not impossible, to swallow it all. And while much of the (mostly) noise is likely ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Here is the deal ladies and gentlemen and please listen to what I am about to say. Real people, real black lives have been lost in the whim killings of Black Americans. Real fathers, brothers, sisters, uncles and cousins, who did not come home. Kaepernick said this in 2016, “I ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Ask any good magician and he will tell you that Donald Trump uses a deceptive technique of misdirection. Hs is playing the con man shell game and it is working on millions of people. Trump’s biggest supporters can be seen daily telling you in code to ignore Donald Trump’s immorality, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I can publicly declare without a single reservation that Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart is one of my favorite books of all-time. For those who have somehow managed to deny themselves the pleasure of Achebe’s writing, Things Fall Apart revolves around that horrific transition from independence to colonization for the eastern ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Americans should be tired of the games our government is playing with citizens as the ping pong ball. People who only see partisan positions are largely forced to stand with a party regardless of what the party does or stands for. If we scrap both political parties, the government will ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The economy is doing well, crows the Pugilist-in-Chief, complaining that he doesn’t get enough credit for the things that he has done to “make America great again.” Every time a positive number is released, he brags like a banty rooster. GDP growth higher than expected? He did it. Unemployment rate down, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Although the politicians in Washington may have shut down talks on criminal justice reform until after the mid-term elections, people behind bars are speaking up for themselves. From August 21st until September 9th, inmates across 17 states are engaging in work strikes, hunger strikes and sit-ins to protest conditions in ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) A Fox News headline read: “Black leaders express ‘profound indignation’ over Dem leaders’ failure to ‘protect’ Maxine Waters.” I submit that using “leader” to describe these people is a perverse form of oxymoron. Leaders wouldn’t support nor sit stoically silent, while the progressive’s black-baby-killing industry is responsible for the murder ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Make no mistake about it. The news from California is very big and very positive. As reported in the LA Times, “California legislator shelves bill to ban paid ‘gay conversion therapy’ for adults.” In a somewhat unprecedented move in the history of gay activism, Assemblyman Evan Low, himself gay, has ...