(ThyBlackMan.com) The Newsweek headline – “Democrat Trashes Barack Obama for Not Endorsing Kamala Harris: ‘Truly Sad,'” – shows just how wrong conventional wisdom has been on Obama’s role in the Biden ascendancy. The Clintons and Alex Soros, newly engaged to Hillary’s BFF Huma Abedin, badly outmaneuvered the former president. They likely knew ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I can understand the base impulses and general feeling among party loyalists to do whatever they can to win elections. I get it – you want to win, victory for the other side is unthinkable, and whoever the nominee is that gives you the best chance to prevail is ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In an electrifying twist to the 2024 Presidential race, former President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle Obama, have thrown their full weight behind Kamala Harris. This endorsement could very well be a game-changer in the political landscape, and it’s already causing a stir among voters and political pundits ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) didn’t lose many battles, but she succumbed to pancreatic cancer on July 19. She tackled the disease like she tackled so many other challenges, working with her doctors on a treatment plan, making the most of the time that she had, and speaking with ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In the fall of 2009, I made a mental note: keep your eye on Kamala Harris she’s well worth watching. I made the note to myself after a nearly one hour interview I did with her on my weekly Pacifica Radio show. Harris was then San Francisco District Attorney. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) On July 14, hours after the assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump, President Joe Biden told the nation, “(We need to) lower the temperature in our politics.” On July 13, hours after the assassination attempt, former Trump Attorney General William Barr told Fox News: “The Democrats have to ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Dry rub ribs, Thin Lizzy, Lutheran Summer Camp, gathering pecans off of the ground, and Al Green are all part of the fond recollections of my past and during my childhood. This was a time of civility and respect for others without caveats. Boy, do I long for these ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Last night I had dinner with a dear radical liberal Black friend of mine. He is a household name in America but authorized me to share our conversation as long as I did not mention his name because of his high-profile within the Democrat Party. He began to laugh ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Renters account for approximately 34% of the U.S. population, with 44 million housing units in the U.S. currently being rented. Talking directly to this constituency is a winning formula. The Department of Labor recently released new Consumer Price Index data. It showed that while inflation has cooled down in many areas ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Only a few months ago, many of my Christian friends were bemoaning the fate of America and could not understand how evil could be so ascendant over our country’s inherent goodness. Some concluded that the spiritual vacuum that ensued from driving God out of the American culture during the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I have attended about a half-dozen national conventions, Republican and Democratic, and watched at least a dozen more. And I can say two things: 1) They have all generally bored me. 2) The 2024 Republican National Convention didn’t. The RNC not only held my interest, it often moved me ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Fearmongering, when used as a political tool, has always been an effective means of swaying voters and winning elections. Deliberately arousing public fear by way of racial and political overtures was effective when Barry Goldwater and Richard Nixon decided to target white conservative voters in implementing the Southern strategy. Former ...