(ThyBlackMan.com) People used to run for congress in order to serve the nation. But that no longer seems to be the case. Today, far too many people run for congress in order to gain influence and seek personal fortune. While many may be willing to throw a bone to the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I’m not here to defend President Obama, because I don’t agree with everything he does, or fails to do, myself. But there are those in the Black community who need to come to terms with the fact that there are some things that even the president can’t do – ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Two years ago I remembered a documentary I saw produced by Antoine Fuqua called, Bastards of the Party about the Bloods and the Crips. The director, a former Blood gangmember, felt the gang-related turf wars grew out of the restless generation that came after the Black Panther Party, which ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) What patriots find most alarming about the reelection of Obama is the feeling that we have lost America. Recently, a pro football player committed suicide after murdering his girlfriend. The media blames guns and football for the shooting. http://newsbusters.org/node/60790 They act as if the football player bore no responsibility, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “Brother” Cornel West, .Your explanation for your comment that President Obama is a “Rockefeller Republican in blackface” is as lame and disingenuous a cop out as I’ve ever heard. You claimed that your critics are trivializing your comment by not getting to the core of your assertion, which was ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Okay, maybe it is just me, but for some reason I do not see why folk are all up in arms and extremely supportive of Susan Rice. Sometimes I think it is the 98 percent of black folk syndrome that believes Obama or Susan Rice can never be wrong, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Dr. Cornel West seems to have gone on a shameless mission to disparage anyone in the Black community who tends to overshadow him. Now he’s after music mogul and entrepreneur, Jay-Z, regarding his business holdings. West seems to be bound and determined to demonstrate to the world that Jay-Z’s ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) We’ve learned the Republican Party has been admitted to Hospital USA and is in critical condition after being slammed in the rear end by the Democrat Party in the 2012 presidential election. The diagnosis for recovery is poor. The party is on life support. It’s white voter count is ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I was once told, “Be what you are looking for. If you want friends, go be a friend; if you want love, go love someone and if you want happiness, go make someone happy.” As I have reflected on this simple, but yet profound statement, I have found most ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Susan Rice hasn’t even been nominated to replace Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State, but Republicans act as though she has. The attacks are coming fast and furious (pun intended) but they are as misguided and inaccurate as the War in Iraq. Senators Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and John ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The conventional political wisdom is that now that President Obama is safely back in the White House and does not have to worry about reelection, he can do what a few other freshly minted second term presidents have done. And that’s take off the gloves and let fly with ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Since President Obama was elected with 93% of the black vote, there is now a conversation regarding how to leverage unprecedented political support in order to receive the attention from the Obama Administration that such support deserves. The Associated Press wrote about the matter this week, quoting Rev. Al Sharpton, ...