(ThyBlackMan.com) Here is what the President of the United States says the American Jobs Act will do, “It will create more jobs for construction workers, more jobs for teachers, more jobs for veterans, and more jobs for (the) long-term unemployed. It will provide — it will provide a tax break ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I was watching the Republican debates the other night and it astounded me to see how many people were applauding proposed policies that would cut their throats. During the debates I watched people whose very lives are dependent on social security applauding enthusiastically in support of the views of ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) During the first Republican debate last week, the loudest applause of the night rang after Brian Williams questioned Gov. Rick Perry on Texas’ execution of an alarming 234 death row inmates. As predicted, his response included the following: ‘If you come into our state and you kill one of ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Like the late comedian Rodney Dangerfield, President Obama does not get any respect. In fact, no modern United States commander-in-chief has been disrespected more than the nation’s first African-American president. The most recent example was House Speaker John Boehner’s decision to deny the president’s request to address a joint ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) There are two things that have distinguished the tea party. With the help of an awestruck, fawning media, it has been able to harness public disaffection with Washington beltway politicians and a large segment of white conservative anger and loath of President Obama’s policies. The second thing is it ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I would like to say the new world has not been in such a despondent state of precariousness since King Manuel I set Vasco de Gama loose of to this region from a village on the Tagus River in 1497. Although the same level of disease and pestilence may ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I am taken back by the level of conformity and tolerance in my community for mediocrity, acceptance of the status quo and the derisory fatuity we display with respect to everything from our comprehension of politics and economics to our limited understanding of history and learning from past and ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The streets were a writhing mass of panic. I remember looking down from the 8th floor of a Washington, D.C., office building and seeing, literally, the city – hundreds of people in business suits, dresses and ties – clawing at each other and the air, desperately trying to make ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Rep Maxine Waters, who has been quite critical of the Obama Administration as of late, has come out to express her support for the jobs bill proposed by President Barack Obama last week. Maxine Waters told TheRoot.com that she believes that the bill holds promise and should be supported. I think it ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I really dreaded this weekend leading up to the 10th anniversary of the day of the attacks on NYC and the Pentagon and the tragic crash of the plane in PA. I knew that the media was going to go full tilt with the remembrances, clips interviews, etc. and ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Rep. Maxine Waters (D. California) has been one of the most vocal advocates on the black unemployment crisis as of late. Waters has argued that President Obama should use the bully pulpit of the White House to speak in a more balanced way about unprecedented African American suffering. She has noted ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I like Obama. He is smart, promotes the values of family and what it means to be a father and a husband, but his policies leave a lot to be questioned. I am not fond of the republicans, or the Democratic Party, especially the true GOP candidates trying to ...