(ThyBlackMan.com) When Joe Biden took the oath of office to become president – or, should we say, presidential pretender – I was morose. I was one of the million or so cheerleaders for Donald J. Trump in Washington, D.C., Jan. 5-7 – for what has become known as “the insurrection.” ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Last week’s decision by Commissioner of Baseball Robert Manfred, Jr. to relocate this year’s Major League Baseball All-Star Game was wrongly decided. It outraged millions of fans and stoked controversy, and will hurt in very real ways many of the minorities it’s purportedly designed to help. The follow-on decision, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) A realignment, as many have observed, is now unfolding in American politics. The Republican Party and its conservatism is now the home for the “Somewheres,” to borrow the term from David Goodhart’s 2017 book, “The Road to Somewhere,” which refers to the more traditionalist, hardscrabble patriots of the American ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) President Biden’s press conference on guns was filled with inaccuracies and false claims. Ironically, during the campaign last year, Biden disparaged the use of executive orders, “if you can’t get the votes … you can’t [legislate] by executive order unless you’re a dictator. We’re a democracy.” Even more importantly, the changes ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) When will the Biden Administration stop using the U-3 category rate, which in March was 6%, as the official unemployment rate? Before going any further, it is imperative you understand what the U-3 category rate of unemployment is, as it relates to the unemployment situation in our nation today, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I was surprised to read (in The Los Angeles Times) that the Biden administration’s “role model for America” is… California! He wants to “Make America California.” That’s is a terrible idea. Californians now rush to move out of California. Some hopeful folks still move there, but so many more leave that ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) George Floyd might be alive had former President Barack Obama not, for eight years, consistently play the anti-cop race card. Despite receiving more white votes than 2004 Democratic candidate John Kerry, Obama said: “The legacy of slavery, Jim Crow, discrimination in almost every institution of our lives — you ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Unless you have been under a rock, you may have heard of major league baseball moving the all-star game from Atlanta, Georgia due to alleged racism to Coors Field in Denver. The reason was supposedly because the new Georgia Voter codification and integrity law was reminiscent of Jim Crow ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) For a uniter, President Joe Biden has a remarkable knack for figuring out new and destructive ways to divide Americans. His latest attempt to further split us falls back on one of his favorite themes: Race. Because, you know, we really haven’t been divided across racial lines nearly enough ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Imagine you are going to a shop, but you are not allowed to enter because you have black hair. You would not like it, would you? Equality is a necessity that every people must enjoy. Being discriminated against based on how they look or where they are from should ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) There are two deeply troubling warning signs in the trial of former Minneapolis cop, Derek Chauvin in the slaying of George Floyd. The first came when a Black student at Duke University found Floyd’s toxicology report slipped on a Black History Month bulletin board at the University on March ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) It is 11:17 PM and I have just finished reading SB 202, Georgia’s new 98-page voting law that passed last week. I must admit it is a clean bill and quick read, unlike my struggle encountered when reading HR 1. I imagine I am one of the few who ...