(ThyBlackMan.com) Last week, as I was riding the local train in Washington, DC, I began to ponder on the thoughts that had begun to flood into my mind. I was president of my senior class at Soldan High School in St. Louis, MO. I had a lot of my friends ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Many people think that if they only made more money, they’d be free from worries about money. I wish that was true. If it was, then three-time Pro Bowl cornerback and ex-Raven, Chris McAlister wouldn’t be dead broke and living with his parents. Cornerback Chris McAlister was alleged to ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) James Carville, who is renowned for being former President Clinton’s political strategist and now a lobbyist and political analyst has been quoted in several news publications as saying, “Mr. Obama needs to fire somebody or assemble a new team of advisors.” Carville made these statements as the President got ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Bill Keller strides back from his two week-old retirement as executive editor of the New York Times to pick up his pen today (Monday, September 19, 2011). He is searching for Barack. Just last week, eerily, I did the same thing, but pointed to a different set of assumptions and reasons ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The rejection of the clemency appeal of death row inmate Troy Davis by the Georgia Parole Board has set a new low for our criminal justice system. The denial of Mr. Davis’ appeal is a clear case of vengeance by a Board lacking courage to set the record straight, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Students of political history already know the story of the late Senator Ted Kennedy in 1979. Others like Mo’Kelly are old enough to simply remember it. For everyone else, it goes a little something like this. Democratic party discontent with President Jimmy Carter for all things ranging from the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I recently read a well-written piece by Randall Kennedy at the Harvard Law School. In the article written for CNN, Kennedy argues that black critics of President Obama are flat out wrong, and that that their efforts are sorely misguided. In Kennedy’s words: Obama’s black detractors receive a degree of attention in the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) For a large number of African Americans, Bill Clinton was not only the first Black President but he was the best thing that ever happened to us since sliced bread and fried chicken. I never subscribed to this belief. In fact I considered Clinton, his democratic party and his ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Upon Barack Obama’s election to President of the United States, euphoria, jubilation and an aura of disbelief simultaneously enveloped the Black African-American community. Perhaps, it could even be said that many saw him as a Messiah and the primary power-holder to make life and living better for Blacks. Seemingly, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Last week’s debate amongst the Republican hopefuls was a spectacle for many reasons. First, it was (fingers crossed) the first of the Republican debates where everyone who actually wants to run for the nomination was actually in attendance. Nearly half the debates for the GOP nom so far have ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) While I didn’t expect much from Obama’s jobs speech before a joint session of Congress, it was worse than I expected. For a president who has failed the American people, where under his watch we’ve experienced the worst recession since the great depression, 9.1% unemployment, and the first downgrade ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In June, a poll conducted by the largest social network for African Americans, BlackPlanet.com, and NewsOne.com of 1,100 African Americans, revealed that 88 percent of them believe the economy has been better under President Obama than former President George W. Bush. The truth of the matter is that both ...