(ThyBlackMan.com) There are three reasons why Obama critics are desperately trying to obscure the significance of Obama’s accomplishments. First, his competence blows the theory of White superiority all to Hell; secondly, White bigots are afraid that Obama’s success will cause the nation to want to elect more Black presidents, senators ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The biggest complaints I get from Black journalists when it comes to Republican officeholders and Party leaders is that they can’t get their calls returned. I used to think this was because of the reporters’ race or that some represented small, Black media outlets. Over the years, I have ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I sincerely wish you could see what I’m seeing right now. As I’m writing this particular Op-Ed entry, I’m sitting on an Amtrak train – with the lush and scenic Northern Virginia countryside to my left and to my right. I wish you could hear what I’m listening to ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The word bullying is a verb which is defined as “using superior strength or influence to intimidate (an individual or group), typically to force him or her or them to do what someone else wants.” This definition succinctly describes the sad state of our current political discourse. Bullying takes ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The record is clear that the impact of Bush foreign policy both politically and economically, resulted in nothing good for America. The only tangible outcomes were destroying the government of Iraq under false pretense, disrupting the standard of living for tens of millions, tens of thousands Americans dead or ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I shot the music video for my song, “We Are Americans”. Between takes while the director was setting up a different camera angle, I was on my mark on the set. I thought, “Wow, can you believe this?” For over a year, I have been seeking the right production ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Perhaps it is due to me being a PK (preacher’s kid) with fond childhood memories of adoringly watching my dad preach well prepared sermons at the Holy Temple Church of Truth storefront in a Baltimore ghetto, the Bible remains my ultimate reference source for wisdom and leadership. Moses who ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Recently, I read a New York Times article written by David Leonhardt and Kevin Quealy. In that piece, it was revealed that the United States of America no longer boasts the most affluent middle class in the world. For many years – for many decades, in fact – America ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “Let me issue and control a nation’s money and I care not who writes the laws.” Mayer Amschel Rothschild. I often wonder if most Black people in America really understand the across-the-board impact economics has on our daily lives. Or have we just been beaten down so badly that ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Al Sharpton only fights where the money trail leads him! Al Sharpton understands Black people’s pain and has made a career out of it. Anytime there is some money to be made by twisting the arm of some corporate entity here he comes as though he represents us whose ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I have openly stated for the record that if one desires to explore how the Federal Government operates in the function of health care administrator, just look at the Veterans Administration Hospital Services – where the average wait time to see a physician is five months. In all sincerity, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Over the past few weeks, many have been in an uproar over the kidnapping of more than 200 Nigerian school girls in Borno State Nigeria. They were taken from their school as the slept and huddled off in trucks to places in the Sambisa forest outside of Maiduguri and ...