(ThyBlackMan.com) Black politicians, civil rights organizations and others who say they are concerned with the welfare of poor black people often support harmful measures. One of the most effective tools for disadvantaged people is to be able to charge a lower price for what they sell and pay a higher ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) If I were Republican, I would be deeply concerned about the past. Republicans singlehandedly eradicated slavery in America – which simultaneously ended the systematic kidnapping, rape, murder, and hard labor of black people here even as it preserved this nation’s union during its most tenuous days. Republicans – white ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Welcome to Hollywood, where dreams become real — and where logic, reason and economics 101 become dreams. Take the current battle over the minimum wage. In Los Angeles County, the minimum wage is $9 per hour. Theater actors, however, can be paid as little as $7 a performance, and ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In this column entry, you will not find the terms Republican, Democrat, or Independent. You will not read about race. There will be no references – overt or covert – to issues of gender or age. No lyrics from the Doobie Brothers song of the same title will appear. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) How long can we expect to see new reports and videos of unarmed black men being shot by police in incidents all across the country? Aspects of two of the most recent shootings in Tulsa, Okla. and North Charleston, S.C., suggest some answers to the question, and the answers ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Why are Democrats throwing away the greatest opportunity since 2008 to win the Presidency in 2016 and take the Senate and House back? A recent NBC/Wall Street Journal poll determined that the American public’s number one priority is job creation. Politicians on both sides of aisle have not presented ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Republicans are often criticized, many times unfairly so, for using the “race card” when it comes to the Black community. Liberals postulate that if Republicans treated the Black voter like any other voter; or treated Black groups like White groups; then the Black community would vote in their own ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Thanks to television, our perception of many careers can be skewed. While wildly entertaining, the lives of doctors, lawyers, police officers and political professionals have all gotten the TV treatment and the result has often been a glamorization of the profession. Scandal, one of primetime TV’s biggest hits, has ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Co-authored by Heather McCulloch, Director, Tax Alliance for Economic Mobility and Dedrick Asante-Muhammad, Senior Director of the NAACP Economic Department As we all make sure we have done what we need to do to comply with our complicated tax code, there is a serious debate concerning the future of ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “Who can I turn to, when nobody needs me? My heart wants to know, and so I must go where destiny leads me.” Listening to an old album by the Temptations, “In a Mellow Mood,” made me think about the political trick-bag Black folks are in now that Barack ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Upon hearing Hillary’s ad announcing that she is running for president, I thought, these despicable people (Democrats) have no shame. The substance of Hillary’s ad is same old, same old; standard Democrat low rent campaign tactics; class envy and victimhoodism. In her ad, Hillary Clinton says, “…the deck is still ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “I was dreamin’ when I wrote this Forgive me if it goes astray… But when I woke up this morning Could’ve sworn it was Judgment Day. The sky was all purple, There were people runnin’ everywhere Tryin’ to run from the destruction You know I didn’t even ...