(ThyBlackMan.com) We’re almost a quarter into the 21st century and racism is still a heated topic in America. A major contributing factor to the flames of racism is just the history of this country. Throughout primary and secondary school, there was a bit of American exceptionalism taught when it came ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The fact that power is meant to be shared and every voice is meant to be heard is the beauty of democracy. The failure of democracy is not the system itself, but the people who we put into the system. It takes it certain type of person to be ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) After more than three decades of involvement at the highest levels of the Republican Party and the conservative movement, I am still amazed that radical Black liberals like Roland Martin have no answers to “real” Black conservatives like me and South Carolina Senator Tim Scott. Roland is a Democrat ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The abolitionist journalist Ida B. Wells’s quest to document lynchings began when three of her friends, Tommy Moss, Calvin McDowell, and Will Stewart, were lynched because whites were envious of their economic success. Moss, a highly regarded pastor, postal worker (a great job in the South in the 1890s), ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Yes, there are people that need to get up and work. Some take advantage of the system, and something about it should feel wrong to them…too bad it doesn’t. There are parents out there pimping their children for a check and having children for a check while not properly tending ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) TikTok has become a global sensation in recent years, with millions of users sharing and viewing a seemingly endless array of short-form videos on the platform. However, the app’s ownership by the Chinese behemoth ByteDance raises grave national security concerns regarding the risks the app presents to the United ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) So here we go again. Once more, the country is in the grip of a Donald Trump drama, when there are so many other important issues we need to address. As the world now knows, Trump has been indicted in New York on charges related to paying hush money ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) As I reflect back on the last week in politics, I could not help but to think back on the Civil Rights movement. I was not old enough to participate in the Civil Rights movement, but I have been honored to be able to call legendary icons of the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Trump’s presidency was a turning point for the pro-life movement, as he became the most pro-life president of our generation. His support for the March for Life and the appointment of conservative judges to the Supreme Court were significant victories for pro-life advocates. His pro-life stance was also reflected ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Over a week ago, sports history was made following the LSU Tigers’ victory over the Iowa Hawkeyes for the women’s basketball Division I championship. The game drew 9.9 million viewers on ABC and ESPN2, according to fast national numbers by Nielsen, which made it the most viewed women’s basketball ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) About one in 20 U.S. adults –roughly 16 million Americans –own at least one AR-15-style rifle, according to polling from Iposo and the Washington Post. The poll traced the popularity explosion of semiautomatic rifles from its military origins into being one of the public’s most popular and deadliest weapons. While these ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The position of vice president is sometimes subject to more criticism than the president. Of course, that depends on the president and if the vice president is undermining the prez’s message or making their job harder. Mind you, this doesn’t work the other way around. The VP is expected ...