(ThyBlackMan.com) Celebrating Independence Day and watching President Trump on the international stage during the G20 Summit, I couldn’t help but reflect upon a recent conversation I had with one of my “Hollywood” friends. This friend is a self-proclaimed liberal and sees absolutely no value in anything Republican! I remember having many ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) It is very easy to get discouraged in the world we live in. Hate seems to be at an all-time high, and it we are reminded of the history we thought had ended. We do not live in a post-racial society, and there is a high chance we never will. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Before the $1.1 billion Porto de Caio came to northwest Angola, Pedro Cardoso had a wife and a son, but no job and little hope. The family got by only on what Cardoso’s father gave him. His story is achingly familiar in the impoverished Cabinda province. But now, thanks to ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) An excellent example of the impact our history has on the way we are today, especially economically, can be found in an article titled, The Reluctant Entrepreneurs, by Joel Kotkin, author of the book, Tribes. The feature discusses several reasons for Blacks not going into business and being surpassed ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) A few days ago, The Montgomery Advertiser aka The Advertiser wrote a very nasty, slanderous article entitled “OUR VIEW: Hold urban parents accountable for gun violence, too“. And the title of the article greatly disgusted and offended me personally because the colonial media including The Montgomery Advertiser has a history ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) President Trump is criticized from all sides for sparing with fake news media via tweets. Some say Trump’s tweets are a distraction from getting out his message. The truth is fake news media are relentlessly 24/7 distorting and misrepresenting Trump’s agenda and message. Tweeting is Donald Trump’s direct line to ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “The White House judges nominees on the merits of their character and not on the clients they once represented as counsel.” This was the terse statement that #45 Trump issued in defense of the instant and loud criticism of his pick, Eric Dreiband to head the Justice Department’s Civil Rights ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The only time I can remember TIME moving as slowly as it has during the past six months was when I was eight and had to wait an entire year between Christmases. True or not, it feels like the Trump Administration has slowed the progress of time and assigned ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) PBS NewsHour aired a story last year about Milwaukee, saying many residents call the city “the worst place to be a black man in America.” It talked about last year’s riots in the city after a cop shot a black man. One black Milwaukee resident explained that this is ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The other day my daughter burst into my home, eyes reddened and swollen from tears, yelling, “Somebody needs to do something about Donald Trump! He’s a bully, a fabricator, a womanizer, and he’s racially insensitive! He is so not Presidential!” Mirthfully, I smiled at her naiveté. Yes, I do agree ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Passports among our people is growing in popularity as we desire to see more of the world. It is a beautiful thing to see so many of us deciding to explore different cultures and places. With that being said, it is understood that the world we live in is not ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Stevie Wonder’s call to say I love you to black Americans was rejected by black and white Leftists. Leftists were outraged over Wonder’s compassionate message to his fellow blacks, “It is in your hands to stop all the killing and shooting wherever it might be. Because you cannot say ‘Black ...