Politics

(ThyBlackMan.com) Back in 2011, then-President Barack Obama delivered a speech to the Congressional Black Caucus, which had become increasingly critical of him in his second term. In particular, the CBC was urging the president to do more for African Americans, whose unemployment level stood at nearly 17%.  At the end ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Last week, we shared our thoughts in a piece called “The Fall of Barack Hussein Obama” and addressed his desperation to preserve his leftist legacy. That same desperation is what we see now in Vice President Kamala Harris’s flailing campaign. It was not too long ago that everyone was calling ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) In just a few days the world will learn who we really are in America. All voters will have a say in the matter whether they use their vote or not. If you don’t vote, you’re helping to make the wrong decision. Whether we vote or not, we’ve seen ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Let the record show that having personal agency and stating one’s beliefs is a sign of strength. However, there exists a coterie of folk, black folk who instead of confronting me with a valid argument for reasons that I should not vote for Trump, only hurl insults, attempt to ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) As we approach the last week in October 2024 the planet and humanity finds itself at a proverbial crossroad and we have to make a decisive choice, which way we will go. We find ourselves confronted with a presidential election in the US, with wars escalating in Eastern Europe ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Even if not a regular churchgoer themselves, many Black men under the age of 50 were raised with patriarchal socially conservative Christian beliefs about women—often through the religious teachings of their parents or grandparents. From the very first book of the Bible, the man has been categorized as being ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Word to the wise: Don’t Boo! Vote! President Barack Obama Hey there, fellow Americans! Election day is just around the corner, and I keep on involuntarily remembering my grandpa. Jeez, that old guy was always getting on my case about voting when I was about 12 years old. He ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) The star-studded city of Houston was ablaze with energy this past Friday as Beyoncé Knowles-Carter, one of the most iconic figures in the music industry and a long-time advocate for social justice, made an impassioned appearance at Vice President Kamala Harris’s rally. In a rare public statement regarding politics, ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Former President Barack Obama gave us a lot to think about concerning the Black vote, the Democratic Party, and the issue of misogyny. While speaking to Harris-Walz campaign volunteers and officials at a Pittsburg field office, Obama’s comments highlighted the complexities of the Black voting bloc within a male- and ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) I love election season! I love the act of voting. I’ve been loving it since I was seven and my mom let me pull the lever on her vote for John F. Kennedy in 1960. The voting site was just a block from our house, in a neighbor’s garage, ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Although clearly the Million Man March was the central event on October 16, 1995, it is important that we remember and always pay rightful homage to its parallel support project, the Day of Absence. Indeed, the Mission Statement is titled The Million Man March/Day of Absence Mission Statement. Moving to foreground the challenges ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) After being home-schooled for most of my life, when I got to high school, some folk observed that I had skill sets that the average high-schooler did not have. So I was recruited to be into a lot of clubs and organizations. One of them was the debate club ...