(ThyBlackMan.com) One of the most curious things about America is how many of our most celebrated billionaires sound like socialists. Bill Gates and Warren Buffett love talking about how more and more of their wealth should be taxed. Jeff Bezos bought The Washington Post, enabling it to wage relentless war ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) America as many nations often reflect in construct and politics how history repeats itself. A long time ago, it was once progressive retro chic policy to advocate for chicanery which was called Eugenics. This was the practice of promoting selective mating and the advocacy for presupposed desirable hereditary traits ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Yesterday I was in the middle of writing my weekly column and I received a text from a good friend with a link to a video by someone named Amaka Ekpunobi. Normally I don’t look at my phone when I am writing, but for whatever reason this time I ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) With the signing of the law, making Juneteenth a federal holiday, President Biden’s “Building Back Better,” policy, ought to be the cornerstone, in the destruction of all of America’s rigged systems. The slogan should mean, the un-rigging of current racist practices, especially those under the control of President Biden, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I don’t begrudge anyone their success and couldn’t care less how much money someone has. But our culture puts people who have a lot of money on a pedestal more for having a lot of money and less for how they got it or what they do with it. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “Juneteenth (short for “June Nineteenth”) marks the day when federal troops arrived in Galveston, Texas in 1865 to take control of the state and ensure that all enslaved people be freed. The troops’ arrival came a full two and a half years after the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation. Juneteenth honors the end ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The postponed and rescheduled 2020 Olympic Games are only a few weeks away. If the Japanese and International Olympic Committees can manage a COVID-safe environment, I welcome them. I consider this event to be one of the purest forms of athletic competition. Participants train and compete fairly in a test of physical ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Many Americans have been hesitant to take the Covid-19 vaccine shot for various reasons; this hesitancy has been especially acute within the Black community. Most of this hesitancy within the Black community is well founded. Many of our experiences with the federal government has been painful, to say the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) When West Virginia’s Joe Manchin closed the door on eliminating the legislative filibuster this week, promising not to “weaken or eliminate” the 60-vote threshold, he “dashed” the “dreams” of Democrats, according to The New York Times. Hypocrisy is nothing new in Washington, but it takes a preternatural shamelessness to ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) No matter how mentally diminished President Joe Biden is, you have to be horrified by who waits in the wings should he leave office before the expiration of his term. Unfortunately, one of the many consequences of Biden’s mental decline is an impairment of judgment that manifests itself in ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) For the people who wonder whether the Biden White House represents the third term of the Obama presidency, Barack Obama provided the answer last week in a wide-ranging interview with New York Times columnist Ezra Klein. In Obama’s esteemed opinion, the answer is definitely yes. In making this assertion, Obama reminded the nation ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I never thought I would say it but I miss Donald Trump. Not as president, certainly not that. But as a distraction. Remember how every morning you could wake up to screaming headlines about the latest outrageous Trump tweet? By the time you could fully digest its inanity, there ...