(ThyBlackMan.com) Biden delivered a message and a warning to our country in a speech that I, along with many others, wholeheartedly agree with: “Any country that out educates us will out-compete us.” He is entirely correct. However, while his words are vital and motivating, they must be accompanied by actions. Biden delivered this ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) While there are indeed individuals and entire groups out there who deny either the COVID-19 virus itself outright or its deadly impact, NYC Transit workers have no such luxury. Over 160 MTA employees/mostly transit workers have died, many friends and colleagues. While such deniers belong to another conversation, their ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The New York Times, New York Post, and New York Daily News fall under the classification of establishment news. They do contain informative, political and international news, however, their local stories are often sensational, and they advocate only for the comfort of the upper and middle class white community, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) It has been a long time coming but last night we did it; the Atlanta Braves once again will reign as the World Champions of Baseball. It could not have happened to a more deserving team. I am glad not only because the Braves are my favorite team or ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The acronym, NAACP, is among the more historic and respected ones in this country’s history. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People or NAACP, was formed in 1909 and has been the premier and most well-known civil rights organization in the United States. It has been in ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) When you can’t govern, when every policy you advocate for is a disaster, and when the American people have grown weary of your march to an economic gulag, you must deflect their attention. The Democrats in Congress, with a few accomplices from the Republican Party, continue to dredge up ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Opposition and disparities in politics are commonplace. In a country as diverse and divergent as the United States, everyone holds different beliefs, views, and opinions on any subject matter in existence, and the same applies in the political scene. However, the last thing any incumbent president would ever expect ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I revered Dr. King. Still do. Fusing Christian thought with Gandhi’s tactic of “satyagraha,” King immortalized the idea that regular people could peacefully lock arms in civil disobedience to abolish bad laws. Jim Crow laws, in his case. In a 1957 speech, King quoted Faust author Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Across the country, Republican state legislators have been busy imposing new voting restrictions and devising corrupt redistricting schemes to give their party more power than they could win under a fair system. Republicans in the U.S. Senate protected that wrongdoing again in October by using filibuster rules to stop ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Nearly 1.7 million migrants were apprehended at the border in Fiscal Year 2021, the highest number recorded since 1960. The caravans have grown despite newly installed President Joe Biden telling would-be migrants in March on ABC: “I can say quite clearly: Don’t come. We’re in the process of getting ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The New York Times recently reported that the public health system in the United States may be less prepared for the next pandemic than it was for the current one. Given everything we have been through, and everything we have learned, how can that be? The answer is disturbing. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) As Congress debates over critical early childhood investments, I am reminded of 1971 when earlier efforts to enact a comprehensive child care system were toppled by regressive politics and am determined not to allow our nation to repeat the mistakes of the past. Fifty years ago a national moral ...