(ThyBlackMan.com) Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie begins her New York Times review of “A Promised Land” with this sentence, “Barack Obama is as fine a writer as they come.” This was, I am sure, music to Obama’s ears. As one commenter on the Washington Post review deadpanned, “Obama may have been the first president, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Donald Trump’s presidency provided a rich trove of examples for my annual review of the year’s highlights in blame-shifting. The 2020 edition focuses on the question Trump has been trying to answer for nearly two months: Why did he lose the presidential election? By Trump’s account, it was not because voters ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) If Joe Biden is sworn in as president of the United States in January, many Democrats and their friends in the liberal media will instantly claim that he has a mandate. They will be mistaken. Joe Biden does not have a mandate to effect change, and no amount of ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “I wish they would put themselves — the White House and Congress and everybody else making these decisions — in the shoes of us, the normal working people, who need help due to no fault of our own. I’m asking to be able to keep my apartment. To be ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I have the most important Christmas message ever for President Donald Trump. I’m one of the few who can deliver this message. I understand the man. I appreciate the man. Even the liberal media have described me as President Trump’s fiercest champion since the day he came down that ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) It is reasonable to state that being a Black man in America is one of the most difficult tasks known to humankind. Black men are the most likely group to be incarcerated while also having the shortest lifespan of all Americans. Although numerous studies have explained why the above ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Donald Trump took much deserved heat for deliberately and vindictively gumming up the works in not immediately signing the 900-billion-dollar second stimulus bill. The list of those hurt by the delay runs off the chart; renters, the unemployed, small to medium sized businesses, and the millions of the neediest ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) From the looks of President-elect Joe Biden‘s selections for cabinet positions and other high offices it seems belief in “climate change” has become a litmus test. Biden appears to have raised climate change to the level of a religious doctrine. In naming John Kerry a climate “czar,” Rep. Deb ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) It is important, how President Biden and his economic team define stimulus. It is a misnomer to call the entire economic relief package, such as the Cares Act, “stimulus legislation only,” because part of the funding within it was clearly used for relief, such as unemployment benefits, and aid for ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Some current thoughts on my comments from last year about things that would shape the narrative of 2020. It has truly been a year unlike any other. The numerical expression “20/20” is widely recognized as synonymous with perfect vision. And given what we have witnessed in 2019, we definitely ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I don’t know about all of you, but it feels to me like Christmas came early this year. Electing a new president and vice president was a gift that 81 million Americans gave to ourselves and to one another. Every court rejection of Trump’s bogus stolen election claims was ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) It was recently (falsely) reported that in a closed-door meeting of the nine justices of the Supreme Court about the Texas lawsuit against election fraud, Chief Justice John Roberts was heard screaming profanities about President Trump and refusing to consider the Trump-favoring precedent of Bush v. Gore as he ...