(ThyBlackMan.com) There are moments that I, a progressive Black man, am unsure if I should celebrate or cry after dealing with my people. There is no greater variable that causes my feelings to vacillate between jubilation and depression than issues that reveal African-Americans understanding or ignorance regarding the stony path ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “As long as the color of a man’s skin determines his choice of housing, no investment in the physical rebuilding of our cities will free the men and women living there. … A nation that aspires to greatness cannot be a divided nation–with whites and Negroes entrenched behind barriers ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) For Donald Trump, America First is increasingly translating into America alone. He apparently believes that the United States is so dominant that it needs no friends. Trump prefers to act alone, often on impulse, in conflicts across the globe. He views allies as a burden, international law as an ...
Political Opportunism At Its Best; The President, Scottsboro Boys, And The Central Park Jogger Case.
(ThyBlackMan.com) To explain America’s Reconstruction Era to my students, I rely heavily on the psychological fallout that afflicted Americans following the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln on April 14, 1865 by thespian John Wilkes Booth. The most reverberating consequence of the shocking political assassination was the arrival of Andrew Johnson, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Californians, what do you have to lose by voting for Trump?! It’s time for Democrats to defend the consequences of their democratic socialist policies that have ruined the state! After visiting my hometown of Los Angeles, California a couple of weeks ago, for the first time in decades, I ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “Tonight, we renew our resolve that America will never be a socialist country.” That’s from President Trump’s last State of the Union address. I’m sure many people found it as encouraging as I did, especially in light of surveys indicating that socialism is gaining popularity here in the United ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Candidates for office have a long history of promising the sun, the moon, and the stars to get votes, and the higher the office, the bigger the promises. Of course, the bigger the promises, the bigger the disappointment when they inevitably don’t deliver on them. But what one Democrats ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Presidential candidate Joe Biden recently announced his “Plan for a Clean Energy Revolution and Environmental Justice.” While it might be viewed as a Green New Deal Lite, the plan would inflict serious economic, environmental and societal pain on most of the nation, for no climate benefits. First, as I’ve pointed out here and ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In 1964, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. predicted that America could elect a black president in 40 years or less. Implicit in King’s prediction is that such an achievement would show that racism was no longer a serious problem in our country. Three years later, King said: “Because of ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In recent years, the spate of homicides linked to questionable uses of deadly weapons and/or force, have prompted many activist organizations to call for racial reparations. From Trayvon Martin’s death in Florida, to Michael Brown’s in Missouri, Eric Garner’s in New York and many other deaths — a chorus ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) This week, The New York Times ran a massive piece detailing the supposed radicalization of one Caleb Cain. Cain moved from political liberalism toward self-ascribed “tradcon” status from watching YouTube videos. The New York Times charted this nefarious move by following those videos. The suggestion by The Times was ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) We are living in a time of increasing domestic tension. Some of it stems from the presidency of Donald Trump. Another part of it is various advocacy groups on both sides of the political spectrum demanding one cause or another. But nearly totally ignored is how growing government control ...