(ThyBlackMan.com) During the 1936 Berlin Summer Olympics, the United States won 56 medals, 14 by Black athletes. Jesse Owens dominated the Olympics by becoming the first person ever in Olympic track history to win four gold medals at one time. This is history that all Americans—regardless of race—can be proud ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) There’s nothing petty about petty crime. Tolerate it, and society descends into disorder. You’re standing in line at Starbucks and watch a freeloader go to the front, pick out a sandwich and walk out without paying. No one says a word. Or you pay your bills, then find out ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Among the many unbridgeable divides between Americans is a completely antithetical view of mask wearing. On one side are those who wear masks almost everywhere outside their homes and who demand that others do so, including young children in class and on outdoor playgrounds, and 2-year-olds on airplanes. On ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In January 1967, 55 years ago this month, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. took a very rare sabbatical at an isolated house in Jamaica far away from telephones and the constant pressures of his life as a civil rights leader to write what would become his last book, “Where ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) With the election of President Biden and Vice President Harris, they have quickly delivered for the American people, while helping our country recover from a pandemic, and an economic crisis. It is very easy for the Republicans to talk about what the Biden team has done wrong, but with ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Prior to a vote on the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act to the Senate floor that ultimately failed, McConnell was asked by a reporter about concerns among voters of color. This is how the leader of the Republicans in the Senate, Mitch McConnell, replied. “Well the concern is ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) They’re at it again. It is the continuing shrill attack by the GOP and the right-wing echo chamber on the strawman issue of critical race theory. This time the assault came from white Mississippi GOP state senators. By a nearly unanimous vote, all except two Senators voted to ban ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In the early eighties, radical liberal Hollywood unleashed a well-orchestrated plan to feminize and emasculate the Black male. These same liberals have now passed the torch on to radical liberal Blacks in Hollywood who can say and do things white Hollywood only wish they could get away with. Kevin ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) It is a shocking statement that could easily be attributed to a third world dictator. When asked about election legislation this week, the president of the United States of America stated, “It’s not who can vote, but who gets to count the vote. Who counts the vote—that’s what this ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) President Biden’s latest attempt to modify Senate filibuster rules is abysmal and politically naive, and it demonstrates his short-sightedness and failing political acumen. In simple terms, a Senate filibuster is a procedural tool that opponents of a proposed legislation can use to prolong debate on a bill by indefinitely ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Bill Clinton used to say that all elections are about the future. It’s true. Voters want to know what candidates will do in office — how they will fix problems — and if they can be trusted to handle the unexpected developments the future brings. But now, in Washington, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) From the third Monday of January, the federal holiday commemorating Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday, through the end of February, Black History Month, Dr. King will be quoted, lionized, referenced, and deified by the kleptomaniacs who sample Dr. King as blatantly as hip-hop artists sample classic Motown. He ...