Black Community: Don Lemon – CNN Sold To Conservatives.
Tweet (ThyBlackMan.com) The Don Lemon you saw in the morning is the same Don Lemon I used to watch at night. I admit I had my concerns about him leaving the night line up. I wondered if it was going to put him on the path to getting fired. There are many things one can say contributed to Don Lemon and CNN parting ways. We can look at his comments about... [Read more...]
Black Community: Michelle Obama – An Example of Authenticity.
June 6, 2023 by Staff
Filed under BM, News, Opinion, Politics, Relationships, Sista Talk, Weekly Columns
Tweet (ThyBlackMan.com) Every generation is blessed to have examples of poise, character, strength and class. Every role model has had challenges to face that can seem larger than life at times; it is how they manage and overcome said challenges that make people want to follow them. Black history is filled with people that we consider leaders that feel... [Read more...]
Republican Mike Pence and the Bedfellows.
Tweet (ThyBlackMan.com) I will preface this article with one fact. The DOJ dropped the investigation into former Vice President Mike Pence’s possession of classified documents. I’ll let you marinate on that as I begin. It isn’t a surprise in Republican circles that Mike Pence threw his hat into the ring to run for President of the United States,... [Read more...]
Black Americans and White Americans: Law School Commencement Speech Is No Place for Far-Left Politics.
Tweet (ThyBlackMan.com) Education ought to be the bedrock for fostering critical thinking and providing a landscape for the exploration of diverse perspectives, rather than serving as an incubator for extremist ideologies. That essential ethos of education, unfortunately, is under threat, exemplified recently by the graduation speech of City University... [Read more...]
Donald Trump Never Changes.
June 6, 2023 by Staff
Filed under Opinion, Politics, Weekly Columns
Tweet (ThyBlackMan.com) It wasn’t a difficult choice to watch the first of the NBA playoff games between Miami and Denver instead of Donald Trump’s appearance on “Hannity,” but when Denver built a 12-point lead, I switched channels to see if Trump might say something new? Nope, same old denouncing of opponents and the juvenile... [Read more...]
Black Community and Caribbean Community: The Struggle against Oppression and for Development.
June 5, 2023 by Staff
Filed under BM, Business, Money, News, Opinion, Politics, Tech/Internet, Weekly Columns
Tweet (ThyBlackMan.com) There is a ferment building in the world that is realigning relations among nation states, global political and economic power, and even the relations between life as we know it on Earth and Earth itself. Hanging over humanity are threats of obliteration from nuclear war, the proliferation of viruses, the destructiveness of climate... [Read more...]
Is Age Your Issue With Joe Biden.
Tweet (ThyBlackMan.com) While sitting in a waiting room waiting to be seen by an orthopedic specialist random conversation is happening all around me. In this waiting room there are people from various different walks of life discussing life and living with the stranger sitting next to them. There is a TV on and though it just seems like a fixture,... [Read more...]
Republicans and Democrats: America’s Progression Toward Self-Destruction.
Tweet (ThyBlackMan.com) Each election cycle we get closer. In 2013, the nation experienced a 16-day federal government shutdown when the Republicans demanded the government’s spending bill include provisions which would impede or delay President Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act. In the midst of the 2013 shutdown, the AFL-CIO, the U.S. Chamber... [Read more...]
Black Community: The NAACP Continues to Prove Its Irrelevancy.
Tweet (ThyBlackMan.com) I am fond of saying that weak people take strong positions on weak issues! The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) specifically and the media appointed radical Black liberal leaders in general are the embodiment of this adage. Their original mission was to secure civil rights and equality for Black... [Read more...]
Black Community: Blacks Fall for the Reparations Gimmick Again.
Tweet (ThyBlackMan.com) Anyone in the world is for free money where and when warranted. However, when it comes down to the reparations for Black Americans argument come about, I tend to bat an eye and disagree on the principle of it all. Every election cycle it seems that reparations become a topic and on some Democrats’ agenda item list. The basis... [Read more...]