(ThyBlackMan.com) I never thought I would miss our 43d President, George W. Bush. And I’ve never much thought of him as a great, or even good, speaker. But the speech he gave at a conference convened by the George W. Bush Institute was simply eloquent, excellent, thoughtful, and compelling. After keeping ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Good or Bad, Like or Dislike, in all my years as a citizen of the United States, I have come to expect certain decorum from the holder of the Office of President of the United States. While accepting that I will not agree with every decision, and that mistakes are inevitable, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Our nation’s leftist progressives have long sought to undermine the American values expressed in our Declaration of Independence and Constitution. Though typical Democrats and Republicans do not have this leftist hate for our nation, they have been willing accomplices in undermining the most basic value the Founding Fathers sought to ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The notion that the media, writ large, was responsible for the election of Donald Trump has been repeated so often on television and in the blogosphere that it’s become an unquestionable fact. This idea isn’t just false it’s destructive. Ten months and five days into the Trump administration print journalist ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) As a precinct chairman, I walked neighborhoods in the blazing Florida sun, heat and humidity; sweating like crazy, campaigning for George W. Bush. I hated knocking on stranger’s doors, but I did it anyway. Hearing Bush include “white supremacy” in his trash-Trump-speech was horrifying; extremely disappointing. http://bit.ly/2ivI6s5 Why on earth would ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The troubling questions about the death of Sgt. La David Johnson in Niger didn’t begin and certainly won’t and shouldn’t end with the bungled call that Donald Trump made to Johnson’s widow, Myeshia Johnson. Apart from the furor it ignited and the war of words between White House Chief of ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) While White men are beating Black men on the streets of Charlottesville, Virginia, while a “lone” White wolf is shooting people from the Mandalay Bay Hotel, and while the word “terrorist” is hardly used to describe these men, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), under the leadership of the racist ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Warning: Offensive Language White slave masters never admired their black slaves, yet white sports fans all around the world worship their favorite black athletes. Nike endorsements, sports arenas, and college campuses aren’t exactly what I’d call slave ships, chains or whips. Yet, if you listen to black activists, ESPN analysts ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Texans have a saying for people who talk big but act small: All hat, no cattle. It’s hard to think of someone better fitting that description than Rep. Frederica Wilson, the Florida Democrat with a multitude of colorful hats but no decency. Sgt. La David T. Johnson died fighting for ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) War heroes coming home in body bags, with missing limbs or never coming home at all. Leaving wives, husbands and children to do what is labeled “protecting our way of life”. TV commercials where soldiers say they gave up their marriages, families, dreams and more for the military – and ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) As a retired soldier, I found John Kelly’s defense Kelly Press Conference of Donald Trump’s conversations with Gold Star families this week very disappointing. General (Retired) Kelly has become the latest Donald Trump enabler, joining current and former White House Press Secretaries, Republican leaders in Congress, the Vice President, and ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The recent hurricanes in America have ripped lives apart from Florida to Texas. Then, there are the storms in the UK which are causing floods and battering homes. If that isn’t enough, global warming is slowly chipping away the ice caps and increasing water levels. Disasters are everywhere at the ...