(ThyBlackMan.com) This week we are remembering and reflecting on the tragic events of September 11, 2001. Like many New Yorkers, I remember that day vividly. I was in graduate school and was in just my first week of classes pursuing my PhD at Columbia University. As the events unfolded on ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Today, in comparison to the sixties and the seventies, we have several times the number of “black political leaders,” and a former African American president. Yet, those black leaders of the sixties and seventies, though smaller in number, were more productive than “our leaders” of today, in helping to ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The two decades since the hijacked 747s rammed into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon hasn’t changed one thing. Millions of Americans still fervently believe that the 9/11 terror attacks were part of a well-conceived, well-planned, diabolical, staged act. Various polls since that hideous day, have consistently shown ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) So you are sitting on a park bench, just enjoying the weather. What is the likelihood that the next person that walks by you is of a different race than you? In 2010 the probability of a different race person walking by was 54.9 percent in 2010, and it ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) First, my apologies. My laptop past away four weeks ago and I have been in mourning. I purchased a new one on August 6 but did not receive it until August 30th (says a lot about Biden economy). A few weeks ago the acting Mayor of Boston Kim Janey made a ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) According to a new report from The Washington Post, America’s corporations have committed “at least” $49.5 billion to the cause of “racial justice” since the George Floyd murder last year riveted our national attention on race. This amounts to a little over $1,100 for every Black man, woman and ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Just why did California Governor Gavin Newsom draw voter fire? The short answer is two-fold. One, the GOP cannot, bar a miracle, win a statewide office in a state, California, where they are seen by some as seemingly on the verge of extinction. They make up barely a quarter ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I was proud to work hard for the election of President Joe Biden. And I was proud to protest outside the Biden White House on Aug. 24. Along with other voting rights activists, including our co-organizers at the League of Women Voters, I called on President Biden to do ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) This is the week that will tell whether Washington will act to address the growing crises that threaten our democracy. Across the country, COVID-19 is spiking once more, as the Delta variant proves ever more contagious. Floods in the Northeast join flames in the Northwest, as extreme weather caused ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The housing market is hot, hot, hot right now, and home prices continue to soar in many markets to their highest prices ever. Since it doesn’t cost a real estate agent 10 times as much to sell a million dollar home than a $100,000 home, one would expect that ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I have to be blunt. There’s an element of our citizenry that is stunningly gullible. They’re people who place both hands over their eyes and in their sightless state go about pretending to see. There’s one hope for the people of America (and the world), and He is Jesus ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) When I hear today’s Republicans refer to themselves as the Party of Lincoln, I have to stop and shake my head. Do Republicans really know what the Party of Abraham Lincoln actually stood for? The Republicans of 2021 and those from 1866 are not the same. In fact, they are polar opposites. ...