(ThyBlackMan.com) If you have been following the New York City Council primary races in this campaign season (as I have), then by now you have likely balked (as I did) at the perplexing plight of 1st city council district incumbent Margaret Chin. In what should be a “no-brainer” choice for ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) If nothing else, the anniversary of the March on Washington has encouraged discussion and debate on a plethora of issues that might otherwise not have been examined. Not the least of these is the impact of integration on the black community. Most of the people with whom I have ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Last week, the Republican National Committee, under the leadership of its chairman, Reince Priebus, did something that has never been done before in the history of the Republican Party. Their feat was so astonishing and yet few in the media is writing or talking about it. Priebus hosted a ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Within moments after President Barack Obama bluntly indicated that he was ready and willing to strike Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s forces for its alleged mass chemical attack on civilians, dozens of the most liberal House Democrats signed a letter warning him to tread very carefully on any Syrian action. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The funny thing about so-called “black leadership” is that much of our perception of black public figures is controlled and managed by predominantly white media. Therefore, it is no coincidence that nearly every prominent black person who speaks firmly for the rights of African Americans has been typecast as ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) GOP congressional leaders tried to have their cake and eat it too on Syria. They spent months screaming at and for President Obama to take action against Syria. Their first call was to take out Syrian President Bashar Assad’s regime and then their later call was to hit hard ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “I view ignorance of all types as a punching bag. I consider myself to be like a boxer; empowered to fight the good fight. I am therefore duty-bound and honor bound to hit that bag as frequently and as forcefully as I can – until that bag falls.” This ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The NRA and key GOP congressional leader’s response to President Obama’s new round of unilateral executive orders on gun control was as predictable as the sun rising in the Sahara Desert in August. The NRA thundered that they are useless, unconstitutional, and won’t do a thing to keep guns ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) My brother attended the red carpet premiere of his wife’s first big screen acting role at a Baltimore movie theater. Forced to park blocks away in the hood, after the movie my brother asked a friend to drive him back to his car rather than risk walking. My brother ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory (R) recently signed into law a package of voting reforms passed by the North Carolina legislature. McCrory approved the most sweeping voter-suppression law seen in the United States in a generation. The law is just the latest in a spate of similar laws passed ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) President Barack Obama punctuated the official White House proclamation on the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington with the oft-quoted line from Martin Luther King Jr.’s, “I Have a Dream” speech imploring the nation to let justice to roll down like a mighty stream. Obama did not quote ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) During the past year, we have watched monumental change take place all over the world; not just in terms of democracy, but in terms of culture, law, and politics, etc. Our major institutions have not been immune from this change that is sweeping across the globe. There has been ...