(ThyBlackMan.com) In the past week, former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, now the chief lawyer and principal spokesman for President Donald Trump’s legal team, has offered arguments more harmful to Trump than helpful. In a series of combative, disjointed and logically challenged television rants, Giuliani has essentially argued that Trump did ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) As teams gear up for the NFL season, President Trump is reviving his destructive and diversionary attacks aimed at turning fans against players. The league office stepped in it by unilaterally declaring that players who do not want to stand during the national anthem should stay in the locker room. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) On February 29, 1968 President Johnson’s National Advisory on Civil Disorders, tasked with finding the causes of the riots of the 1960s, declared that “our nation is moving toward two societies, one black, one white—separate and unequal.” It charged that “the press has too long basked in a white ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I have lived long enough to testify to the following. Most apologies appear after the evil people do in the dark comes into the light. Hence, I view public apologies with extreme skepticism. The above perspective provides ample opportunity for amusing moments when others accept the apologies of professional athletes ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) When I read that the economy is growing strongly, it makes me happy. But in politics, good news is not enough. You have to decide who gets credit for it. President Ronald Reagan, no ordinary politician, kept a plaque on his desk that said, “There is no limit to what ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Poverty is no mystery, and it’s easily avoidable. The poverty line that the Census Bureau used in 2016 for a single person was an income of $12,486 that year. For a two-person household, it was $16,072, and for a four-person household, it was $24,755. To beat those poverty thresholds is ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Almost a year ago, Mary and I moved from Florida to West Virginia to be closer to our parents. June 1st, my dad passed at age 90. We’ve enjoyed living in small town Trump country USA. I ate tomatoes, a cucumber and a green pepper in my salad from Mary’s ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) According to the Associated Press in a recent story, the National Football League Players Association (NFLPA) has entered into negotiations with NFL owners, regarding the controversy over NFL players kneeling during the playing of the National Anthem. What the NFL players have done in highlighting the issue of unjust killings ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Repeatedly pointing out the American left’s obvious dishonesty, hypocrisy and selective outrage seems pointless. And yet, I feel compelled to do so. For example: Fake news media created a 24/7 media firestorm over Trump’s alleged affair with porn star Stormy Daniels “before” he became president. Due to recordings by Trump’s ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) It is strange to be able to say the following, I did not know Nia Wilson, the beautiful 18-year-old sister who was recently murdered at an Oakland BART station, yet I somehow feel that I knew her. Nia’s life came to an end this past Sunday night at the hand ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) President Donald Trump, in Helsinki, expressed skepticism about the intelligence community’s finding that Russia interfered with the 2016 presidential election. Within 24 hours, the President walked back his skepticism and said he trusts the intel community and believes their finding that Russia interfered with the 2016 election. But the Helsinki ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) As the Trump Circus began its blustering and bumbling trip across Europe, before culminating in a complete capitulation to America’s Russian adversary in Helsinki, the president’s Council of Economic Advisors issued a report that bears closer scrutiny here at home. Expanding Work Requirements in Non-Cash Welfare Programs issued July 12, ...