(ThyBlackMan.com) Wyoming is the second windiest state, after Nebraska. It’s obvious why the wind power industry is investing $10 billion there. And it’s hard to see why any state politician would oppose this. But some have. Wyoming is one of those fossil-fuel producing states in which so-called conservatives feel obligated — ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The movie “The Big Short” — dramatizing the reckless behavior in the banking and mortgage industries that contributed to the 2008 financial crisis — captures much of Wall Street’s misconduct but overlooks a central player in the collapse: the federal government, specifically through Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. These two ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The House of Representatives completed an overnight session on May 22 with a vote on the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. It passed by one very small margin — 215 to 214. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer immediately condemned it — and expressed anger that it would restrict federal ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) By any measure, Charles Bernard Rangel was a towering figure in American politics—a man whose journey from the backstreets of Harlem to the halls of Congress defined the very best of what American democracy can offer when met with persistence, grit, and a deep love for country. The longtime ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Almost every day we witness the government and legacy media colluding and conspiring to lie to us about everything. There is an obvious reason they are held in such low regard by people, we know they are untrustworthy, we know they lie! They omit telling the truth, they spin or ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) It is common to experience profound emotional tension when wrestling with powerful, conflicting realities about which one feels deeply. That has been the case for me since I learned that former President Joe Biden was diagnosed with an aggressive form of prostate cancer — shortly after I learned about a ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) America’s debt-addicted government just lost its triple-A credit rating from Moody’s, as it previously had from fellow rating agencies S&P and Fitch. Many in Washington shrugged the move off as minor or as unfair treatment of the Trump administration. The truth is more sobering: a flashing red signal that the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Malcolm X, the fearless leader that the actor and activist Ossie Davis described as one of Harlem’s “brightest hopes”, the “stormy , controversial ad bold young captain”, and most movingly “our own Black shining prince.” would have been 100 years old on May 19. People commemorated that birthday in ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) First off, let’s drop the Republican claim that not extending Trump’s 2017 tax cuts is a tax increase. Many of these tax cuts were purposely designed to expire and for a sneaky reason. Making them permanent would have hiked the bill’s cost by more than $1.5 trillion over 10 ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I’ve come to wonder: Is it a requirement—or even a basic expectation—for someone running for public office in the United States to know what the laws of that position actually require? Ever since the orange man (Donald Trump) began operating our government with seemingly no knowledge of the laws—or worse, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “All Americans are entitled to live with the confidence that the law enforcement officers and agencies in their communities will live up to our Nation’s founding ideals and will protect the rights of all persons. Particularly in African-American communities, we must redouble our efforts as a Nation to swiftly address ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I started teaching Statistics at the University level when I was 24. That means I have been teaching it at this level for 38 years. Truth be told, just because I have and do, doesn’t mean I have any extra level of clout for any opinion I enounce. I ...