(ThyBlackMan.com) During the 19th century, the German “Brothers Grimm” together collected folklore, publishing it in the form of children’s fairy tales. During the 21st century, we have witnessed the “Brothers Grim” – Andrew Cuomo, the governor of New York, and Chris Cuomo, a CNN journalist hosting his own television show ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) 2020 was a strange and painful year for all Americans – no need to rehash the obvious. The real question is where do we go from here? I contend that 2021 is a do or die year for Black economic progress. Organizations have been compelled, unlike ever before, to ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) If Lebron James had a nickel for every time he’s been told to shut up and just stick to dribbling and shooting the ball, he’d never have to collect a penny from the Lakers. He’d be rich beyond his wildest dreams. AC Milan striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic is the latest ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) As longtime admirers of legendary civil rights pioneer and educational entrepreneur Booker T. Washington, we felt compelled to pay tribute to this profoundly influential American during Black History Month. Born into slavery on April 18, 1856 in Hale’s Ford, Virginia, Washington died a free man 59 years later on ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) SCOTUS justice Clarence Thomas embarrasses and disgraces himself and the law so often on the High Court that it has become ritual. Whether it’s the death penalty, voting rights, any discrimination case, blatantly racially based jury cases, or unbridled defense of any and all corporate abuses, Thomas will be ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Republicans are smart to look at statehood for the District of Columbia as a way for Democrats to elect two new far left-wing senators and a bunch of House members. Democrats campaigned in the last election on the idea of ridding the Senate of the filibuster, packing the Supreme ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Say what you will about the personal and political failings of Donald Trump, at least he was an optimist. Along with being a cheerleader for America, he talked positively, sometimes when he shouldn’t have, and he could always see the sunshine. President Joe Biden is the exact opposite. In ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Dear Mr. Elon Musk: I am writing to you to request a favor. I do not know you personally and I (personally) count this as a blessing from God. But with all loquacious iniquities aside, I have a somber courtesy, or rather request I would like for you to ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The Democratic Party has no interest in supporting a Consumer Tax Cut. Perhaps, I should say that differently, it has no interest in supporting a plan identified as a Consumer Tax Cut Plan, as stimulus checks are no more than consumer tax cuts. Here is how Investopedia, a financial ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I hardly care about what folk say about me. I am a man and a father so call me a trick if you want, I don’t give a fck. What I do concern myself with is what is honest and righteous. I was just made aware of a march in ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The day I got the first in the series of two COVID vaccination shots at a Kaiser facility in predominantly Black and Hispanic South L.A. there were as many white and non-Blacks in line for the vaccination as there were African Americans. Now bear in mind African American medical ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) There are three major considerations for us to ponder, when we closely examine what Mr. Biden and Democrats are doing to “better our lives,” when it comes to the American Rescue Plan, or as President Biden and his Madison Avenue marketers like to say, “Build Back Better.” Those considerations ...