(ThyBlackMan.com) On Saturday, August 26, three African Americans were murdered by a 21-year-old white gunman at the Dollar General Store in Jacksonville, Florida, who then shot himself. The murderer was motivated, Jacksonville Sheriff T K Waters reported, by an “ideology of hate.” The shooting took place 15 months after 10 African ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Democrats, when it comes to the economy, are not projecting a picture of a prize winning and clear economic recovery plan, that will positively impact the coming Economic Downturn. So, Biden and Democrats are not connecting with voters, and American workers, professional, blue collar, union, and working-class Americans, when it comes to the economy. Regardless of ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) As we endure one mass shooting crisis to the next, it illustrates the nation’s void in leadership. We look to our elected officials to fulfill their oaths of office to protect the public because a person is only as good as their word. Words also have consequences—good and bad. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I remember the song by the 80s new wave group Missing Persons called “Words.” The refrain went like this: “What are words for, when no one listens anymore, What are words for, when no one listens, What are words for, when no one listens and no one’s talking at ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The federal minimum wage has been stuck at $7.25 an hour since 2009. Several states have a higher minimum, but a predictable few, including Mississippi, Tennessee, Louisiana, South Carolina, and Alabama, are stuck at that low minimum. If the minimum wage kept up with inflation, it would be at least ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) At this hour of urgency and needed liberative initiatives in African and human history, and in this month, Black August, the site and source of such instructive memory and intensified movement, the name, life and legacy of Nana Marcus Garvey looms large as a model and mirror for our ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) En route from New Jersey to Georgia to turn himself in for his arrest for all those charges, Donald Trump (now known as Inmate #PO1135809) was texting the following — even to me: “Dr. E. Faye. I hope you’ll read my personal note: Remarks Penned by the 45th (and Future 47thPresident of ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) This country faces a reckoning. The question is whether we will come together or fall apart, move forward or descend toward a moral abyss. In this time of deep discord, of partisan divide, racial tension, extreme inequality, the outcome is far from certain. As fraught as this time is, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) A widely held view is that various events and actions during the Civil Rights Movement, that period from 1954 to 1968,resulted in the US becoming a more humane, less color blind nation. A nation where its Black citizens would no longer be mistreated and held down. A time when ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Honestly, is President Biden ever honest? His pathological dishonesty has become somewhat of a punchline, but it’s not funny. He lies about nearly everything. During a commemoration of the 60th Anniversary of the March on Washington, the President made the audacious claim that he “literally talked Strom Thurmond into voting for ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Malcolm X’s declaration that the most disrespected and unprotected person in America is the Black woman continues to be a prophecy. We need only look at the example of Fulton County, Georgia, District Attorney Fani Willis, who is leading the criminal investigation into Donald Trump’s — and 18 other people’s ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Two almost 80 year old men are running for president. They each would be within finger reach of the nation’s nuclear code. Is it a possibility that one or both of the men might think the button they were pushing for was a nurse and not the one which ...