(ThyBlackMan.com) Just like we struggled to understand why, with the fall of South Vietnam’s capital of Saigon in 1975, we lost what was then our longest war in history, today – with the ongoing fall of Afghanistan’s capital of Kabul – we will soon struggle to understand why we lost our new, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) When you ask the average Black person about the term BIPOC, a likely response might be “BIPOC”, what is that? Bi-what? Or, Bi-who? BIPOC – Black, Indigenous, and People of Color. The more I see the term, the more I wonder where it came from, who created it, and ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Milton Friedman used to quip that, in Washington, if a government program is working, Congress says we need to spend more money on it. And if a government program is failing, Congress concludes we are not spending enough money on it. We are seeing that in spades with the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The bipartisan group of senators who just passed a $1.1 trillion federal infrastructure bill are attempting to sell it as a reasonable, centrist compromise. Yet it is neither reasonable nor centrist. If approved by the House, the bill would immensely expand the size and power of the federal government, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In April, President Joe Biden told the nation he would have all U.S. troops out of Afghanistan by Sept. 11, the 20th anniversary of the worst terrorist attack ever on the continental United States. Given the turn of events of the past week, that 20th anniversary may be celebrated ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Right-wing Black talk jock Larry Elder should be a bad joke but isn’t. The one person who knows that is the man Elder is trying to unseat in the September California governor recall. That’s California Governor Gavin Newsom. He has sent out a flurry of emails attacking Elder and ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I was in high school when Saigon fell to communist forces in 1975. I still remember the news coverage at the time, and the unforgettable images of our American embassy being evacuated by rooftop helicopter landing. It was unprecedented American humiliation. We’d never seen anything like it before, and ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) As a freelance journalist in preparation for the article you now read; this writer took various courses online; that would prepare me for what will be presented here. These were some of the courses and schools involved: Understanding the Brain: University of Chicago Psychological First Aid: Johns Hopkins University ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The coalition, the Democratic Party is depending on to carry it successfully through the 2022 elections, is under economic, and social stress. Democrats, whether they believe it or not will not survive as the majority party, controlling the House of Representatives and Senate, if their coalition of working-class Americans, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The world’s greatest gymnast, Simone Biles, unexpectedly dropped out of this year’s Olympics in Japan and set off a global firestorm about mental health. She withdrew from the women’s gymnastics team final and the all-around competition. She later decided to compete in the women’s final for the balance beam ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Sometimes, when you go into a store with expensive merchandise on the shelves, you will see a sign that reads, “You break it, you buy it.” That’s a good slogan for the Republicans as they continue to battle the left’s economically catastrophic quest to bankrupt our country by authorizing ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) For the first time in six months, we’re seeing a return to 100,000 new COVID cases each day! Dr. Anthony Fauci says the trajectory is moving towards 200,000/day; levels we saw before there were COVID vaccines. Things are not going in the right direction…by any means. Clearly, this frightening, upward trend ...