(ThyBlackMan.com) A Presidential candidate’s pick for his vice-presidential running mate has been the butt of endless jokes, ribs, and wisecracks. The ridicule of the vice presidency got even worse when vice presidential candidates debated. A Gallup poll measured the impact of VP debates between 1976 and 2008. It found that ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) CNN’s media unit emails out a nightly newsletter titled “Reliable Sources.” The newsletter is not always reliable, since it has a slippery grasp on what its own network is putting on television and online. On Aug. 3, Oliver Darcy led the newsletter discussing what he described as an “imaginary ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Racism is ghastly in whatever form it comes in or whatever shape it takes. We all need to fight against it and here are seven ways you can do so. Learning to understand and recognize your privilege The first step to take when it comes to dealing with racial ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) My initial exposure to John Lewis occurred while researching Black Panther Party for Self-Defense co-founder Huey P. Newton’s calamitous attempt to surrender control of his organization to the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). By the late-sixties, Huey P. Newton believed that his cadre had been infiltrated and driven into ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Most Americans did not get a chance to befriend the late, great Herman Cain — but I wish that more people could have, because this man was a true inspiration. In October 2015, Herman and I had the privilege of opening the first ever rally for then-candidate Donald Trump ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.” This was the nightmare of Ben Franklin. Yet, with passage this spring of a $4 trillion bailout of an economy facing historic losses because of the COVID-19 pandemic, and Nancy Pelosi’s ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) There is very little new under the sun. The monument and statue destruction that we are witnessing has been witnessed in other times and other places. A tyrant’s first battlefield is to rewrite history. Most notable were the political purges of Joseph Stalin. The Soviet government erased figures from ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) As August 6 approaches, how will the mainstream media depict our use of the A-Bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki 75 years ago? Nevermind that our nation was already stretched to the limits by four years of all-out war with Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan and that Truman’s advisors had ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The Lincoln Project is a group of self-described alienated Republicans who want to make sure President Donald Trump loses in November. Toward that end, the group has endorsed former Vice President Joe Biden for president. Led by notables such as George Conway, who obsessively berates the boss of his ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) There is one meeting, among many, I’ve had over the years with Congresswoman Karen Bass that always stands out. Some years back, I was having a heck of a time trying to get my paperwork to get IRS approval for my non-profit organization, the Los Angeles Urban Policy Roundtable. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Donald Trump has only one card left to play to stay in the White House. That’s his old favorite, the race card. He’ll play it with a vengeance in the run up to November 3 that might even make the unreconstructed George Wallace blush. Trump kicked it off with ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I recently watched a documentary about how the U.S. government finally took down the mob (aka the Mafia). For decades, the U.S. government failed miserably. Why? Because it could only catch low-level “soldiers” in the act of a crime but never the mob boss (aka The Don). But something ...