(ThyBlackMan.com) Texas is, on the whole, a very welcoming and friendly state. It is the home of the renowned Southern hospitality, of which its residents are extremely proud. However, while Texas is an undeniably charming and vibrant place it also, as with most places, has a dark side to its history. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) It’s time to get real. Donald J. Trump is not an aberration of most White males in the United States of America. In fact, he is exactly what most of them are all about. That’s why he’s president of the country today. And contrary to what is often stated ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep forever.” Thomas Jefferson said that about slavery, but he might well have been talking about what is now happening in Donald Trump’s Washington. Republicans are putting the finishing touches on a tax bill ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “To attract people, to win over people to that which I have realized as being true, that is called propaganda… Propaganda is not a matter for average minds, but rather a matter for practitioners. It is not supposed to be lovely or theoretically correct. I do not care if I ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) This is one of the hardest things I’ve ever had to write and admit: Donald Trump is winning. In the brief space of a week, he won a brief court fight to shove Mick Mulvaney to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Mulvaney wasted no time in unhinging a spate ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In 1995, The United States Congress passed (by a vote of 374-37 in the U.S. House of Representatives, and 93-5 in the U.S. Senate) the bill entitled the Jerusalem Embassy Act of 1995. Its stated purpose was “to provide for the relocation of the United States Embassy to Jerusalem. …” ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Some have been disillusioned to believe all Retired Lt. Gen Michael Flynn did was tell a simple lie to the FBI. There are Trump supporter that have managed to believe that Flynn’s cooperation with Special Counsel regarding the Russia Investigation will implicate him and no one else. What planet do ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., hospitalized for an undefined stress-related illness, announced his retirement after serving more than 50 years in the House. Two other Conyers — a son and a great-nephew — immediately announced plans to vie for the elder Conyers’ seat. The great-nephew said, “His doctor advised him that ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Two people reported to work at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on November 27, both expecting to lead the bureau. Leandra English, who had been chief of staff to former Director Richard Cordray (he resigned before Thanksgiving to return to Ohio to run for governor), was appointed to the director ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In case you haven’t yet heard, Richard Cordray, the first-ever Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), resigned in late November. President Trump’s unlawful appointment of Mick Mulvaney to serve as the Bureau’s Acting Director signals a distinct shift in the Bureau’s future. Since enactment of the Dodd-Frank Wall ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Officials in Catalonia, Spain’s richest and most highly industrialized region, whose capital is Barcelona, recently held a referendum in which there was a 92 percent vote in favor of independence from Spain. The Spanish authorities opposed the referendum and claimed that independence is illegal. Catalans are not the only Europeans ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) America’s first billionaire president has remained devoted to the goal of placing his wealthy friends in his Cabinet, a top campaign promise: “I love all people, rich or poor,” Trump told a crowd of supporters at an Iowa rally in late June 2017. “But in those particular positions, I just ...