(ThyBlackMan.com) The United States is failing in what surely is the first duty of government — protecting our children from threats that they cannot deal with themselves. Voters and politicians are failing our children. After 17 students and teachers were killed and a dozen wounded on Valentine’s Day by an unbalanced ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Of all the desperate and futile attempts at revisionist history, few are as careless as the attempt to destroy the reputation of one of the finest Supreme Court justices this country has ever produced. Now comes another volley. New York magazine has assembled “The Case for Impeaching Clarence Thomas.” The ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) A recent article in The Guardian dons the foreboding title “Robots will destroy our jobs — and we’re not ready for it.” The article claims, “For every job created by robotic automation, several more will be eliminated entirely. … This disruption will have a devastating impact on our workforce.” According ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Congressional Republicans have been raked over the coals in the last two weeks for slamming through budget caps and inflating government spending and debt by another $300 billion. The criticisms are well-deserved. It’s a historical truism that Republicans are much more fiscally conscientious when they are in the minority than ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Donald Trump’s behavior says it all. An innocent man would simply quietly wait out the Russian investigation and review the results. But not Trump – he’s been firing people, threatening to fire others, literally climbing the walls, and totally preoccupied with the investigation to the exclusion of everything else. Why? ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Is it possible that Lebron James and Kevin Durant are victims of a post-racial America? Furthermore, if America is as inherently racist as so many pro athletes claim, isn’t it pointless for minority kids to strive to be as successful as them, since “the man” is against them? Fox News ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The American people justifiably look to the President and their elected representatives in Washington to do everything within their power to protect them – to defend our nation, maintain safety in our workplaces and communities, and assure that every one of us can afford the high quality health care that ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Recently I went to see Black Panther and paid close attention to every minute. I applaud the African and African American actors. The movie was action packed and humorous at times. Word like nobility, honor, passion, action, family, discipline, order and allegiance come to mind. But there are a few ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Marion Barry, Jr. was the longest-serving mayor of Washington, D.C. The people and the pundits of DC gave him the moniker “Mayor for Life” because, after holding the Mayor’s office from 1979 through 1992, he left politics because of his personal challenges. Then he made an amazing comeback, to regain ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Recently at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, a former student (a teenage white boy) opened fire at the school injuring 14 and killing 17 people. At first glance, many people will only be reactionary by saying “not again” or “these kids need to be punished by the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I repeatedly tell people that if you listen intently for any amount of time to what others say, they will reveal their true feelings. If Black America made a practice of doing such, they would be unsurprised by the hatred that many whites spew during diatribes that drip with an ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “Would America have been America without her Negro people?” – W.E. B. DuBois “We is free!” Those exhilarating words of a slave in 1863, as he crouched at dawn before his makeshift cabin, brought an end to one of the most dreadful chapters in American history. Slavery which ended in 1863, with the ...