(ThyBlackMan.com) Stop the presses: Facebook seeks to maximize profits. Frances Haugen, a former Facebook employee, appeared on “60 Minutes,” where she slammed Facebook, a publicly owned corporation, for “optimizing for content that gets engagement.” In other words, FB tries to keep users on its platform as long as possible to ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In 2015, then Minnesota Democratic Congressman Keith Ellison predicted on ABC’s Sunday program “This Week” that if Republicans were not careful, Donald Trump would become that party’s presidential nominee This bit of political realism was met with derisive laughter by the show’s host, George Stephanopoulos, and the other guests. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Not a day goes by that I don’t get a text or three from the Democratic National Committee asking for contributions. Sometimes they come from Vice President Harris. Sometimes, from President Biden himself. Occasionally, from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi or DNC Chair Jaime Harrison Not to mention the texts ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Walking down a busy urban street, one cannot help but notice the number of “help wanted” signs that grace the front of many establishments. Restaurants, grocery stores, and retail establishments all seem to want workers. Many of them indicate their starting pay is “at least” $15 an hour. Some ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Sometimes friends have to hold friends accountable. That’s why I got arrested outside the White House on Oct. 5. I was there with other civil rights and religious leaders to call on President Joe Biden to do more to protect voting rights that are under attack. We know that President Biden supports ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Joe Biden has declined to 38%, and not just in his mental capacity. The reliable Quinnipiac poll announced that Biden’s disapproval has risen to 53% while his approval falls to only 38%. Interviews of ordinary Democrats confirm the dismay, as reported by Politico, that many have about their own ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) As a freelance journalist, author and a Black male that seeks to better myself as a teacher of adults and children, I say enough is enough when it comes to these two scourges on society! In May 2020, George Floyd was murdered by a police officer in Minneapolis, Minnesota ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) When anyone criticizes Biden’s Build Back Better blueprint, Biden’s retort usually is, 15 Economic Nobel Laureates have approved his plan. It is, as if he is saying, because these 15 notable people have spoken over this blueprint, are we now, limited to just blindly accepting this as a plan ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Obsessed with manmade climate change, the Biden administration claims natural forces no longer play any role and blames every temperature change, hurricane, tornado, flood, drought and wildfire on fossil fuel emissions. It ignores forest mismanagement, the vital roles fossil fuels play in our lives, and the enormous ecological impacts ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “The global oligarchy controls all of the major media. The media mega-corporations own each others stock, and in turn are owned and controlled by an oligarchy of transnational corporations, international bankers and European dynastic families. In the United States, six global media corporations control 90% of what we see, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Here’s a jarring thought: Most political analysts, and most political strategists for our two political parties, have been operating off flawed data and flawed assumptions. The result has been one political surprise after another, and the election of the two most unsatisfactory presidents, in the minds of many voters, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I was quite taken aback by something said at last Tuesday’s discussion, The Changing Currents in Haiti: Can the Diaspora Steer the Tide, sponsored by Dr. Natanya Duncan, Director of Africana Studies at Queens College and moderated by Dr. Francois Pierre-Louis. Attorney Leonie Hermantin declared with regards to helping ...