(ThyBlackMan.com) My wife and I wept last night over this latest in a series of school shootings. We have an 8-year-old grandson who attends school nearby in San Antonio. We live a thousand miles away or we’d have been hugging the little guy last night. I couldn’t get enough of ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Well! Here we go again. Your space Cadet President Biden and Happy Feet Karmala Harris have push forward the bill to give over $40 billion dollars in Aid to the European Country of Ukraine which is mostly a country of racist Nazi supporting white people and like always, the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) There are still aftershocks from the May 14th mass shooting in Buffalo, New York, by suspected killer Payton Gendron, who chose a supermarket named Tops Friendly on Jefferson Avenue in East Buffalo, to carry out his disgusting act. Tops is located in a lower-income Black neighborhood in Buffalo. Gendron ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) A public crisis has a way of revealing the best and the worst sides of people when it comes to helping others. A prime example is the Flint water crisis. In 2014, an ill-fated decision to switch the city’s water source for cost savings resulted in high lead levels ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) There are three numbers I’d like you to keep track of as you read this column: 11.3 million, 6 million and 1.6 million. The 11.3 million is the number of job openings in this county. The 6 million is the number of unemployed in the United States, and the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Brother Malcolm X, though not with us physically, is still strongly connected spiritually and psychologically, to serious Black folks. As we celebrate on May 19 his 97th birthday, we remember him having a blend of intelligence, vision, talent, self-confidence, persistence and boldness. In a 1992 column celebrating his 67th ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) What’s almost as terrifying as the targeted murder of 11 African Americans in Buffalo by the alleged shooter Payton Gendron, is his age and the motive behind the mass racial murder. Gendron is only eighteen years old. So young, but yet so imbued with every hodge-podge crackpot racist, hate-filled ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Former President Donald Trump remains the GOP front-runner in the next presidential election, but many have expressed they are amenable to another candidate if former-President Trump does not decide to run. Throughout President Trump’s four years in office, many supported him; as a member of the media, I was ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Recent remarks by Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, noting the institutional damage caused by the leak of Justice Samuel Alito’s opinion on Roe v. Wade, have gotten exhaustive coverage in the press. But, not surprisingly, the venue where Thomas made these remarks has gotten little attention by these same ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) April 18, 2022, was Tax Day in the United States. The day was an especially sad reminder that the refundable, monthly expanded Child Tax Credit [CTC], that ended in December 2021, was short lived. The expanded CTC was a lifeline that lifted 3 million children above the federal poverty ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) After angry public reaction to the leaked Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito draft opinion on reversing Roe v. Wade, Justice Clarence Thomas said: “We are becoming addicted to wanting particular outcomes, not living with the outcomes we don’t like. We can’t be an institution that can be bullied into ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) When all you have is a hammer, everything does indeed look like a nail. This is the best way to describe government officials’ unoriginal and often destructive thinking. No matter the problem du jour, the answer is always more government spending. But more spending requires more tax revenue, which ...