(ThyBlackMan.com) The nation is afflicted with an epidemic of mal-parenting. How do we know? The persistence of shocking levels of juvenile delinquency and crime. The poster child case is Ethan Crumbley, guilty of murdering four students at Oxford High School in southeastern Michigan in 2021 and sentenced to life imprisonment ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) It is discerning and disturbing to witness young men and women wearing Immigration and Custom Enforcement (ICE) uniforms faces covered descending on playgrounds, slithering into classrooms and institutions of faith with guns and tasers drawn. Interrogating children as to where they were born and where their parents were born. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The pain that millions of Americans will feel from the Republicans’ megabill is real. It may take time for the reality and pain of the new domestic policy to hit, but it will eventually come, and it will not be pleasant. Part of the current pain is knowing that the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Within the space of twenty-four hours L.A. Mayor Karen Bass and the L.A. County Board of Supervisors announced a package of aid and support programs for immigrants and immigrant rights groups. The funding for the programs will come from public and private sources. The move by Bass and the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) As we move and make our way through the troubled, treacherous and trap-laden waters of our time, we, as a people, are morally compelled to deal deliberately and decisively with the many critical issues that confront us and call us to action. We speak here of the ethical imperative ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) President Donald Trump continually blasts the Federal Reserve, chaired by Jerome Powell for not lowering interest rates facilitating what is called, “a cheap money economy.” When Mr. Trump calls for lower interest rates, he is asking for cheap money. Naturally, when the Federal Reserve raises or lowers interest rates, it affects ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) America’s experiment with democracy and its position as a political and economic superpower died quietly after a punishing and long illness. Future historians and social scientists in discussing America’s life and eventual death highlighted four basic elements that lead to America’s demise. Those four elements were: Anti-immigration policies that ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) They came MacArthur Park on horseback and in riot gear, their faces covered and their weapons out. They were part of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency (ICE) and the California National Guard. They came with more than a dozen military vehicles, as helicopters swarmed overhead. They came heavily armed ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I do not claim to be an Oracle, Soothsayer or Shaman. In the past I’ve made predictions not based upon rituals, seances or crystal balls but by using observation and pattern recognition. Late in 2024 I predicted in a commentary entitled 2025 Predictions Israel would continue to wage war on its ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I’m enjoying a documentary about the Cold War, which, not surprisingly, includes a segment regarding the late Sen. Joseph McCarthy. McCarthy is infamously known as the primary prosecutor of the “Red Scare” of the 1940s and 50s, in which millions of Americans were concerned that communists were plotting to ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The big ugly boondoggle, which President Donald Trump calls The Big Beautiful Bill, is a disgusting transfer of resources from the poor to the wealthy, preserving 2017 tax cuts, cutting Medicaid and SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance program, or food stamps), imposing new work requirements for benefits, and increasing defense spending by at ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Now that the One Big, Beautiful Bill or as Democratic House Leader Hakeem Jeffries called it the Big, Ugly Bill eyes are focused on next year’s 2026 midterm elections. During the run up to the vote, Congressman Jeffries took the Congress and the nation to church. He talked passionately ...