(ThyBlackMan.com) Criticism of policies advanced by the government of Benjamin Netanyahu can be socially and politically sensitive in the United States. Some observers note that public criticism of Israeli leadership may be interpreted by others as antisemitic, given the long and painful global history of antisemitism. This concern often leads ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) It is hard to imagine that anyone who has access to a screen — of any size, at any place, at any time — has not seen comedian Druski’s ubiquitous parody of “Conservative Women in America” (his phrase). Even though Druski, née Drew Desbordes, never says anyone’s name in the video, Erika Kirk, widow of ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) A day after a flood of news trucks, police, sanitation department workers, and a slew of neighbors, descended on the sidewalk sewer manhole in South L.A., I went to the location. The sanitation work crews had sealed up the manhole with concrete. The site had been the subject of ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) War is a serious matter, not a joking one or an “I don’t care one”). In recent weeks, we’ve witnessed men sitting around joking about war, a war in which hundreds of people have been killed. Many are denied the right to vote by coming up with unnecessary new ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “The SAVE Act is not an election security bill — it is a voter suppression bill, full stop … The CBC will not sit back while extremists continue to strip away access to the ballot box for our communities, and we are calling on every Senator to reject this ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The fight for fairness will never be easy. Fairness is the quality of making impartial, just, and equitable decisions, free from bias, discrimination, or dishonesty. It involves providing equal opportunities and adhering to fair rules, often balancing individual circumstances to ensure just outcomes. It means making decisions by being ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Last Saturday, millions of Americans took to the streets under a simple banner: “No Kings.” More than 3,000 protests were organized across the country. Demonstrations filled not only the expected places—Washington, New York, Chicago—but also towns that rarely see political marches: Midland, Michigan; Casper, Wyoming; McMinnville and Tillamook, Oregon. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) As my followers know, I have been and am very critical of my Black community, especially the media appointed Black leaders and organizations. We face a myriad of problems in the U.S. and within the Black community. One of the biggest problems facing America is that we have been ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In August 2022, seven officers from the Adams County Sherriff’s Office in Ohio executed a search warrant on the home of the Grammy-nominated rapper known as Afroman. Afroman was not home at the time, though his wife and young children were. The home’s security cameras recorded the officers’ actions. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The SAVE Act, a spinoff from the Denmark Groover playbook is highly reminiscent of a bygone era in political chicanery; indeed, it is a dangerous voter suppression bill. It would make it harder for Americans to register and stay registered—especially young, elderly, rural, and marginalized (minority) voters. If passed, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) History does not whisper. It warns. Empires do not collapse because of a single moment of weakness. They erode from within, slowly hollowed out by overreach, moral ambiguity and the false belief that their power exempts them from consequence. The question before us is not whether America is strong. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Recently, I drove from my father’s birthplace in Biddeford, Maine, to my mother’s birthplace in Petersburg, Virginia. Two different towns. Two different states. Two different regions. And yet, oddly, just different ends of the same sad street. Most Americans now live at the same address: “We live where there ...