(ThyBlackMan.com) It appears that Fox News is at it again. The same network that has commentators like Eric Bolling, who asked why President Obama was “inviting so many hoods to the hizzy” referenced his 50th birthday party as a “Hip-Hop Barbecue.” President Obama’s party, which was private, served typical picnic ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Pat Buchanan, one of the most divisive political constructs of this century, made an interesting comment about President Barack Obama. In a recent interview with Rev. Al Sharpton, Buchanan referred to President Obama as Sharpton’s “boy.” The remark led to Sharpton responding with the kind of ferocity that the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The fight to increase the debt ceiling through the remainder of President Obama’s term has fueled more talk by black leadership of Republican and, more specifically, Tea Party racism. It is evident that for the first time in American history, citizens are berated for disagreeing with the president. When ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The recent release of data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics indicates that Black unemployment declined during the month of July. It had reached 16.2 percent and dropped over the course of the month to 15.9 percent. While the number is an improvement, it is still nearly double that ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Moments after President Obama put his John Hancock on the debt ceiling deal, a Northern California tea party member claimed that when he proudly wore his tea party t-shirt to his local grocery store a half dozen persons immediately asked him how to join. If one believes the legion ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Respected commentator Earl Ofari Hutchinson recently made a set of accurate remarks about the challenges that President Obama faces within the African American community. He cites a recent Washington Post/ABC News poll that shows that there are as many African Americans who are dissatisfied with the president’s performance as there are who ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies used to be one of the preeminent think tanks in Washington, DC. They focus on issues of particular concern to the Black community. Over the years I have participated in or hosted panels with them that were very substantive and informative. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Black America is in crisis. In a recent study, the National Urban League reported that almost all the economic gains made by African Americans over the last 30 years have been lost during the Great Recession. Black unemployment now stands at 16.2 percent, harkening back to 1982 when that ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) It appears that disrespecting the president by referring to him as a sex organ on national television is not a seriously punishable offense. Mark Halperin, the man who referred to President Obama as a “d*ck”, is now back in action on Morning Joe. So, you can trust that when ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) For years, I have joined many others in advancing the position that the Democratic Party is not the only game in town. Working people of all hues have invested a lot of time and energy into the party because they have high hopes for the party carrying out its ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Or is America merely experiencing the 21st Century’s first successful Republican Party counter-revolution against an elected Democratic Party President? In either case, how did we get here? The noted columnist Frank Rich, writing in the July 11, 2011 of New York Magazine, in an article captioned “Obama’s Original Sin,” ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) GOP Representative Dough Lamborn from Colorado decided to stir the racial fire in the recent debate over the debt crisis. In his remarks about President Obama, Rep. Lamborn said that being associated with President Obama is “like touching a tar baby.” Lamborn’s remarks (which are in the audio below) ...