(ThyBlackMan.com) Chris Rock crossed the line when he ridiculed Jada Pinkett Smith for her alopecia in his mediocre Oscar performance last week. But I fell off the Chris Rock bandwagon years ago. His “humor” is too often misogynistic. He sometimes laughs so hard at his jokes that the rest of ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) When voters are dissatisfied with the state of things, they punish the party in power, and Democrats seem poised for a thumping. This may be bad news for the health of democracy, but it is understandable as a matter of electoral politics because Democrats have forgotten what they grasped ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Whenever voter suppression is addressed, it is disappointing that many people, regardless of race or political persuasion, are in denial or display little understanding of the severe damage caused when Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act (VRA) was overturned by the Supreme Court. Section 5 was the mechanism ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) There is a consensus that the Democratic Party is in trouble with midterm elections seven months away. The polls say it, the issues say it and history says it: The coming election is the type of election that the party in power loses big. And to some Democrats, only ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Last week, Biden made a push for even more COVID funding as part of his administration’s new strategy of “living with the virus.” Curiously enough, small government conservatives have been saying that this would have to be the strategy from day one. Looking back, perhaps one of Biden’s worst ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “I am a Black man in Hollywood-in order to sustain my position, I can’t get caught slipping, not even once, I had to be perfect at all times.” Will Smith wrote this in a candid memoir some years back. They were perceptive, and spot-on words. Unfortunately, in that one ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) You can always tell when the scions descended from the earliest humanoid manifestations of Satan have a socio-political albatross around their collective necks. They always turn to their tried and true defense weapons, i.e., the damnable heresy of melanin being synonymous with a human sub-group and the pretense of ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) When Will Smith slapped Chris Rock at Sunday’s Oscars ceremony, it also placed the hair-loss condition, alopecia, which Will’s wife Jada claims to have, in the public’s eye. Right after the assault, Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley tweeted in support of Will Smith, but then deleted it. She originally tweeted “Alopecia ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “In the battle between democracy and autocracy, democracies are rising to the moment, and the world is clearly choosing the side of peace and security,” said President Joe Biden in his State of the Union address. “This is a real test. It’s going to take time.” Thus did Biden ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In recent weeks, like so many, I have been glued to my TV and social media monitoring the war in Ukraine. I know we have all been impressed by the courage and perseverance of the Ukrainian people and their leaders. I have been especially touched by the sacrifices and strength ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The United States added 431,000 new jobs last month, a sign, we are told, of how healthy the economy is. You could have fooled me. I’m not a numbers cruncher. I’m talking about how the economy feels, which translates pretty directly into how voters vote. And it doesn’t feel ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “Soft on crime” is the old dog whistle that Republican senators like Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley used to smear Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson as they attempted to derail her historic Supreme Court nomination. Their racist deception failed. Jackson is almost certain to be confirmed — and her strong ...