(ThyBlackMan.com) For decades, communist China has been wielding its influence in African countries, establishing strong financial interests and working to convince growing nations that its authoritarian communism is a better form of government than democratic models of individual liberty and economic freedom. While not a typical kitchen-table issue for Americans, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The land of the free and the home of the brave is an expression written by Francis Scott Key in 1814 as he was writing a poem entitled “The Defense of Fort McHenry.” Does that apply to all of us? The answer is no. Racism and inequality have haunted ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) It takes Black women until August 3, or 19 months, to earn what a white man earns in a year. Most years, Pay Equity Day happens in March (this year on March 24), when ALL women must work to make as much as white men. Ain’t I a woman, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) It seems as if the people who are doing the most productive work in black communities across this great nation are never the ones on TV complaining about how systemically racist the United States of America is. Rather they are the folk of all races who see a problem ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) If President Joseph Biden’s administration were considered a corporation, their key executives—Biden, Vice President Harris, and chief of staff Ron Klain would all be in jeopardy of going to jail. Biden has been president for more than six months now and he is in default of a declared dividend ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) There’s nothing new about the term critical race theory. The term goes back almost four decades. Then, a handful of Black scholars and writers came up with the term to name what for decades had simply been called battling racism. The reaction at first was, well really, no reaction. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) One of the most repetitious yet bemusing moments that repeats itself in my courses occurs after I cover the indispensable contributions of Civil Rights attorney Charles Hamilton Houston’s fight for racial equality. Despite common misconceptions, Houston, not his protégé Thurgood Marshall, matters most mightily in the buildup to the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Disputes over COVID treatments and mandates are indicative of where the country is today. Full of contradictions, hypocrisy, fear, anger and ignorance. Vaccine mandates for children have all but wiped out infectious diseases like measles and polio in the school-age population. Science works. Yet, because of spurious arguments and ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Truthfully, I can’t pinpoint where my belief that self-conception is crucial to politico-economic allegiance began. It could be that politicized parents raised me. Maybe it was reading Marcus “Mosiah” Garvey and W.E.B. DuBois’ calls for Black folk to turn inward and take care of their own, or perhaps it ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Imagine a world where workers have real power. In this world, workers are paid a living wage, are protected by a strong union, and wield enough political clout to ensure Congress passes pro-worker laws. Corporations can’t treat them like robots and abandon communities to find cheaper labor elsewhere. It is a ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) A lot of people don’t care about the nation’s growing debt. Some believe that low interest rates for the foreseeable future essentially means a free lunch for the government. Others believe that no matter what the cost of this debt, it is all worth it because of the purported ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Almost everything today on TV and at the movies is terrible, just like everything our institutions produce. Moreover, most of the people in Hollywood hate us, again just like institutions. Are you sensing a theme? They are awful and they despise us, so we need to respond in kind. Let’s ...