(ThyBlackMan.com) While gestalt psychologist Solomon Asch showed how quickly people bow to group pressure – even into saying something they know to be false – social psychologist Stanley Milgram, a Jew, took Asch’s “Asch Conformity Experiment” to a darker level. Baffled by why Germans remained so obedient during the butchery ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The First Amendment reflects a principled but shrewd attitude toward religion, which can be summarized: Government should keep its big fat nose out of matters of faith. The current Supreme Court, however, is not in full agreement with that proposition. It is in half agreement — and half is ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) There have been at least 214 mass shootings in the United States so far this year, the most recent being the killings during a July 4 gathering in Highland Park, Illinois. This year, we have also been both riveted and horrified by the massacre of twenty-one people, nineteen children, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Hillary and Bill Clinton attended Yale. But they must have skipped class for the lesson in honesty related in Sir Walter Scott’s epic poem, “Marmion: A Tale of Flodden Field”—“Oh what a tangled web we weave /When first we practice to deceive.” Hillary and Bill have struggled with the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Last week I wrote a column about the deplorable behavior of Sha’Carri Richardson, who holds herself out as a professional track sprinter. She is more like an entertainer, er I mean “sin-ertainer” who thinks she runs track, but I digress. Click on the above link to read last week’s ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) With prominent Democrats – Hillary Clinton, Gavin Newsom, Amy Klobuchar – openly jousting for the Democratic 2024 presidential nod, it seems a little bit suspicious that the Dems are not promoting their most formidable candidate, Michelle Obama. Suspicious, that is, to everyone but Los Angeles filmmaker Joel Gilbert, producer ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The second Amendment of the United States constitution is the right of all American citizens regardless of race, creed, religion, sexual orientation, political affiliation with the exception of those convicted of certain crimes and those with felonies and or certain misdemeanors. In short, the 2nd Amendment is the right ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) When Art Woodruff was appointed Mayor, in July of 2020 by the Sanford City Commission to take the place of the elected Mayor Jeff Triplett, who stepped down after serving as mayor, since January 2011 to run for another office, no one could have predicted at that moment, at ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) As soon as the Supreme Court announced its decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, a decision that allowed states, not the federal government to legislate women’s bodily autonomy and right to choose, those who support abortion rights took it to the streets. They gathered with an enthusiasm ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Did you ever wonder whether elections really matter? Well, the Trump Supreme Court majority has answered that question for good. Or, more accurately, they have answered it for bad. In the term that has just ended, the new far right-wing majority on the Supreme Court went on a rampage. They ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The question those in the political sphere contemplate in America will likely be a topic of discussion long after the 2022 general election as communities pivot away from tiring rhetoric coming out of both of the major political parties in the nation. What role, if any, should algorithmic thinking ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) A decades-long struggle for the preservation of our country’s dignity and for the sanctity of life has finally come to an end. The Supreme Court has finally—and correctly—determined that the right to an abortion is not found in the Constitution. Rather, the Court ruled, it is the right of ...