(ThyBlackMan.com) Fifty-five years ago, Thurgood Marshall, a top General in Charles Hamilton Houston’s brigade of young Black civil rights attorney whose victories across the South reminds the historically literate of General Ulysses S. Grant’s scorched Earth policy throughout Confederate lands, sat through Senate confirmation hearings to become this nation’s first ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Darkness either overcomes you or it compels you to shine your light to repel it. Americans face this choice as we are bombarded with social issues that require us to examine the core of the nation’s soul. Whether you believe the United States is a Christian nation founded on ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) To hear liberals talk about our Founding Fathers you’d think they were nothing but a bunch of racist, sexist Neanderthals who only stopped raping and murdering anyone not white long enough to write some words conservatives revere for their awfulness. These evil monsters existed to oppress trans people and ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) This writer has witnessed much as a freelance journalist and a teacher of History/Economics; non more inspiring than the confirmation of KBJ to the nations highest court. Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s confirmation to the U.S. Supreme Court is a historical moment. On April 7th, a 53 to 47 vote ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I’m just back from Florida where I had the great honor of speaking at a “Club 45” event that had two speakers: myself and former President Donald J. Trump. Thousands of tickets sold out in 20 minutes. We had a wild, raucous, standing-room-only crowd inside the ballroom of the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The confirmation of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson allows me to describe the moment simply as: ‘I loved it! A moment that will have an impact on little Brown girls who will come after her, on women like myself, who have and will continue to climb the legal ladder and ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The shots were fired 3,000 miles away, but they were heard across the nation. In a flash, the sense of personal insecurity that has come to invade urban America of late had a name and a face and a nightmare to associate with it. In Los Angeles, Metro announced ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “It’s the economy, stupid,” is the infamous mantra conceived by Democratic political consultant James Carville that underscored the main issue driving the 1992 presidential race. A few months later, Bill Clinton replaced George H.W. Bush as president; it was the voters’ focus on the economy that put Clinton in ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) One of the most important lessons in tax policy is that the person who is handed the bill and sends the check to the taxman isn’t necessarily the person shouldering the entire cost — or even the bulk of the cost. A tax might first directly hit a few ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) What was the pitch meeting like for CNN+? “Hey, I know we’re the lowest rated cable news channel, but maybe people will pay for what they aren’t interested in for free?” Something that dumb and crazy had to have been said, heard and determined to be a good idea ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Millions of Americans are paying taxes this week. What worsens the pain is to see President Joe Biden spending our tax money on hotel stays, debit cards and cellphones for migrants illegally crossing the southern border. Biden is rolling out the welcome mat. Illegal border crossers will no longer ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) For decades, the Walt Disney World Resort enjoyed tremendous growth in the state of Florida. It has become the largest vacation resort in the world, attracting an amazing 58 million visitors per year. Disney achieved this lofty status due to its reputation as a family-friendly destination. Unfortunately, in the last few ...