(ThyBlackMan.com) As Monday’s Washington Post reported, “Herman Cain is on a roll” – sort of. After being edged out of August’s presidential primary spotlight by Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann, Cain — the gospel-singing, talk-radio-hosting former Kansas City Fed director and Godfather’s Pizza CEO — has surged in September with a ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In a climate of economic uncertainty defined by widespread joblessness and declining net worth among median income households, it’s not difficult to understand why average Americans would want to wage what Republicans termed “class warfare” in order to secure a fair tax rate. If I still worked as a ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The 2012 Presidential Election may be the most defining political event of the 21st Century. Historians may differ, but it could well be our most important national election since Abraham Lincoln’s election in 1860 and Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr’s, in November 1932. In the absence of a dramatic improvement ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Race in America is a difficult subject. When it comes to race America has the mental maturity of a 7 year old that, on occasion will plug its ears with its fingers and sing “La, la, la.” Being American and Negro I understand this. I don’t really have any ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Unless Chris Christie has been in a secret presidential candidate camp for the last year, it’s just too late for him to start running for president. Ideally a candidate needs to decide two years before the first primary to run an effective campaign, one year earlier at the minimum. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Like any good self-proclaimed intellectual brotha, I’ve spewed a million and one theories and solutions for what ails the black community here. Of course, this all sounds great on paper (or in my case, your tablet), but in the real world, there are very few easy fixes for chronic ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain is on fire these days. The former pizza mogul-turned-presidential hopeful scored an impressive first place showing in the recent Presidency 5 straw poll in Florida. Coming from the bottom of the heap of the GOP pack to number one is no easy feat. But ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Hard to imagine it was just four years ago that pundits across the globe were slinging harsh and vilifying attacks against Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe. They asserted that Mugabe under the banner of populism and black sovereignty had run and was continuing to run the country’s economy into the ground. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) There are not enough rich people to make up the trillion dollar deficit that Mr. Obama is proposing and the rest of the cuts proposed are anticipated not real savings, e.g. drawing down troops which may not occur if other outbreaks and natural disasters demand funds. The lies of ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) At the very outset I’d like to make an unequivocal assertion – entrusting our economy and the well being of the poor and middle class to the GOP is like entrusting the well being of a child to a convicted child molester. If you think that’s hyperbole, simply ask ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Along with “We the people of the United States” and “in Order to form a more perfect Union,” the U.S. Constitution might as well be inscribed, “Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch’intrate“, or “Abandon all hope, ye who enter here,” because we as Americans, particularly African Americans, are in the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) This morning Arthur Lewin wrote an excellent article on Ron Paul Vs Herman Cain Vs Barrack Obama. He made great points on how each of the two potential Republican candidates have been pushed aside by the press as individuals who “can’t win” even though they are doing great in ...