(ThyBlackMan.com) The right-wing majority on the Supreme Court just undercut the Voting Rights Act again. Having gutted the section that required pre-approval of state voting laws to protect the rights of minorities to vote in Shelby v. Holder, Republican-appointed justices now have castrated the backup clause — Section 2 — ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Former President Donald J. Trump recently filed a lawsuit in federal district court in Miami against the Big Tech companies that have denied him a platform. He has targeted Twitter and Facebook, whose media platforms he had used with spectacular success before and during his presidency to advance his ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Since the new wave of race consciousness that has been sweeping our country, precipitated by the graphic video of the killing of George Floyd by police officer Derek Chauvin, something very strange has happened. Somehow, what is perceived as a problem has become widely understood to be the solution. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) President Joe Biden’s first months in office have been fraught with challenges. His administration has been actively working on a variety of different fronts and there are a number of things that are a cause for concern, as well as hope and optimism. Biden is hustling, but it is ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Traveling to Philadelphia Tuesday, President Joe Biden laid out in apocalyptic terms the gravity of the “threat” to American democracy from Republican efforts to reform and rewrite state election laws. “We are facing the most significant test of our democracy since the Civil War. That’s not hyperbole. Since the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) It started almost the instant that Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden announced that California senator Kamala Harris was his VP pick in 2020. The “it” was the sniping, rumor-mongering, and flat-out attacks on Harris. The knock-on her was that she was the perennial “angry Black woman.” This ancient stereotype ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) If I as a woman didn’t use my instincts and intellect, I probably would’ve become a victim of violence in America. As a survivor of sexual molestation in the late 1970s, I am among a few whose molester did not penetrate me. Many people have suffered horrific childhood abuse. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) It doesn’t cost anything to engage in dialogue with one’s political opponents. The Democrats, however, would rather spend millions of donor dollars on a partisan crusade. The Democratic National Committee (DNC) recently announced a $25 million campaign to oppose common-sense election integrity laws, proving once and for all that they have ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Ghostface Killah of the WuTang Klan made a song on his first solo album called ‘Motherless Child.’ Although not the original, it used a sample from a version recorded by O.V. Wright’s “?Motherless Child” which was taken from an old Negro spiritual from the times of slavery. The way ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) You could see it written all over Soledad O’Brien’s face. In her interview with the sitting Vice President she asks a simple question about the efficacy of IDs for voters. The word salad that came back from Kamala Harris was so inane, lacking in general coherency and mortifyingly insulting, the BET ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) America’s $28.5 trillion in accumulated debt and likely $3 trillion in debt this year alone speaks loudly to the utter failure of government to be efficient and rational allocator of resources. Yet, in the face of failure, Joe Biden’s is pushing out executive orders “promoting competition in the American ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The GOP’s relentless war on alleged rampant voter fraud targets, not thousands, as many critics have noted, but millions of eligible voters. The Brennan Center for Justice found that the majority of the five million eligible voters that could be banned from the polls under the new restrictive laws ...