(ThyBlackMan.com) Politicians chase votes the way a frat boy chases women. Also like the frat boy, politicians can have selective memory when it comes to creating a respectable and reciprocal relationship. They beg for your votes, promise you the world and then promptly disappear until it’s time for re-election. That’s a ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In the raucous nature of national debate, the exclusion of racial and ethnic issues from mainstream discussion appears driven by fear. More often than not, those directing America’s political discourse dismiss Black grievances through either active opposition or passive denial. In light of this fact, it is difficult, if not ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Black voters shouldn’t hand over their votes to the Democrats just because they want Obama to triumph… The Democratic Party is counting on African Americans to show up at the polls for the midterm elections. So far, the party has funneled $2 million to reach out to black voters. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) President Obama will play the race card when he needs to play it. And there’s absolutely nothing wrong with that. He shouted to a crowd at Bowie State University in Maryland not to make him look bad. The pitch to black voters is to get out in November and vote ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Nearly every Democratic freshman and many seasoned Democratic congressional representatives have one recurring nightmare about November. And it’s not that blacks won’t vote for them, but that they’ll be MIA at the polls. In interview after interview with legions of Democrats that are feeling the heat from Republican challengers and ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) A face-to-face encounter back in 2005 between a senator from Illinois and a Maryland lieutenant governor might have brought us closer to the post-partisan solutions that candidate Obama promised… Critics of President Barack Obama have plenty of political fodder, both legitimate and unfair, to knock the administration during these ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) If you didn’t read the newspaper carefully (or for us Web citizens, Google News), you’d swear Barack Obama’s economic decisions to date have been disastrous. You’d also be largely wrong, because much of what the guy’s done to help stabilize the economy has been spot-on. No, it hasn’t quite resulted ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Saturday promises to be a busy day for Hilary Shelton. That’s when the director of the NAACP’s Washington, D.C. bureau will attend the “One Nation Working Together” march. Yeah, the folks on the left side of the political spectrum are getting their turn at bat, and it looks like they’ll ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In December, 2008 a stern faced Reverend Jesse Jackson looked directly into a news camera and bluntly told the nation that he was not “an emissary” in the alleged scheme by his son, Illinois congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. to shell out $1 million in bribe money to disgraced and indicted ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) After the tragic events of September 11, 2001, things changed in this nation. For the first time, America went to war with an unknown enemy. The war efforts meandered from Afghanistan to Iraq and from Osama bin Laden to Saddam Hussein. And, in order to stimulate support for the war ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) He must literally be perfect daily to be considered simply competent… Despite passing health care reform, despite preventing this recession and subsequent financial crisis from sliding into a full-blown depression, despite then passing the most aggressive financial reform legislation in U.S. history, despite having the most aggressive Department of ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) President Obama has become a racial enigma. When it comes to the black/white divide in America, Obama is believed to be everything from Clarence Thomas to Malcolm X, depending on whom you ask. The right-wing identifies Obama as a radical black man who hates white people, and the progressive black ...