(ThyBlackMan.com) This week has given us one of the more significant developments to date concerning the new administration of President Donald Trump in the resignation of national security adviser Michael Flynn over the question of his alleged communications with a Russian official over U.S. sanctions against Russia, and whether lifting ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) President Ronald Reagan said: “I didn’t leave the Democratic Party. The party left me.” Actor and former president of the National Rifle Association Charlton Heston, who called himself a “Kennedy Democrat,” switched to the Republican Party after the 1960s. On racial preferences, JFK, in 1963, said he opposed them: ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Who, in their right mind, would ignore the words of Coretta Scott King when she brings to light that a choice for federal bench would be dangerous because he has no regard for civil rights. Why is a question we know the answer to…because racism in this country has never ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Many conservatives find it a stunning admission on my part when I say that “I’m unapologetically opposed to term limits.” They are even more shocked when I say that I will resist the codification of term limits. I once thought I favored term limits; because I, like many today, hadn’t ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) It is becoming a battle to disagree with the 45th President. The decorum and temperament we have known that office to embody is gone. The media is a tool that is used to keep the dialog going about any given administration be it good or bad. Every President has had ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Recently here in Alabama, a bill to authorize the bond of $800 million to build four new state prisons as part of the new legislative session that just started on Tuesday. Under this “prison reform plan“, 13 of the states 15 prisons including the state’s two oldest prisons in Draper ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I’ve heard that making sausage is a pretty messy, ugly and unpleasant process to witness. Well so is implementing real change in Washington DC. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. I believe God gave us Donald Trump because I do not believe a pro-politician could pull off ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The public should be full and open access to education in general. Education is a basic right of every citizen anywhere in the world and therefore, the state must fund and provide education. In short, I was a fanatical supporter of the importance of quality education and therefore, I will ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) When the New England Patriots won Super Bowl LI over the Atlanta Falcons, there was an obvious connection to the Patriots to the White House even before they won the game. Superstar quarterback Tom Brady is friends with U.S. President Donald Trump, Trump received a letter of encouragement from Patriots ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) As a progressive who worked hard to help get Secretary Hillary Clinton elected, it is challenging for me to accept Donald Trump as President. But, he won. At least for now, I have to make the best of a bad situation. Which means progressives like me will have to both ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) My wife and I went to see Raoul Peck’s documentary I Am Not Your Negro. It was based upon James Baldwin’s writings and life experiences. It uses archival footage of Baldwin, pictures and footage of American history and Samuel L. Jackson’s voice reading and sharing some of Baldwin’s thoughts ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics estimates that as of 2008, there were more than 846,000 black men in prison, making up 40.2 percent of all inmates in the system. More African-American men are in prison or jail, on probation or parole than were enslaved in 1850, before the Civil ...