(ThyBlackMan.com) Fifty years after its genesis, the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense reigns as the Black Power Era’s most memorable organization. Co-founded by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale, the Panthers longevity is attributable to the iconic images of Black men and women carrying guns for the sake of Black ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Many know them as the Central Park Five, but filmmaker Ava DuVernay forces to us see the five wrongfully convicted men as individuals. Their names are names we must remember, as individual, courageous, principled Black and Brown men. They are Korey Wise, Raymond Santana, Yusef Salaam, Antron McCray, and ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Democrats have never seemed to hold Trump’s intelligence in particularly high esteem. I believe their regard for the Trump campaign team is, shall we say, less enthusiastic. Therefore, I have had a considerably difficult time trying to discern the Democrats repeated, constant, deafening drumbeat of “Russian COLLUSION!” these past ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) When the sacred cow is a pet and you twist her tail, you can expect booing, not mooing, from the cow’s friends. That’s what happened at the California Democratic Party State Convention in San Francisco over the weekend when two presidential candidates took a turn twisting the cow’s tail. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Demand for taxpayer-funded abortions is where the Democratic Party platform now stands, and so it was only a matter of time before frontrunner Joe Biden caved to such a position. It was a matter of a day, to be precise. Biden’s campaign on June 5 confirmed that he backed the Hyde ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Trump-hating liberal activists know how to cause trouble. With record low unemployment numbers and a thriving economy, we have seen well-organized activists interrupting townhalls, blocking traffic in major cities, and using violence. But there is an awful type of activism happening out there, and it affects us all. Even ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) One hundred years ago this month Congress passed a Joint Resolution leading to the passage of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution granting women the right to vote. Then, as now, arguments raged as to whether expanding the franchise was beneficial or harmful to the republic. Then: Arguments for ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The Battle of Midway took place exactly 77 years ago today, turning point of the War in the Pacific and the first defeat of any of the Axis Powers. Just six months after Pearl Harbor the Imperial Japanese Navy was decisively defeated. Up until then Japan was absolutely unstoppable ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The impacts of Elizabeth Warren’s proposed 2% wealth tax on individuals with a net worth in excess of $50 million and 3% wealth tax on billionaires has not been subject to robust analysis. This needs to happen. With all due respect to the two professors at UC Berkeley who ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The inspiration behind many topics I address on this site result from my daily travels. My pen can be activated by a chance encounter, witnessing conflict or kindness between people strangers and a host of occurrences. Anyone who visits this space frequently can attest to the fact that much ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Economic and regulatory policies play out in the economy in the market in two ways. First, they are anticipated. That’s why the market tanked 16 percent in the 4 months after Obama was elected and rose 12 percent after Trump — and kept rising. Americans knew Obama’s policies would ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Conservatives have always been known for walking around with flag pins in their lapels and spewing their “bone-spur” brand of patriotism. Going all the way back to the very founding of this nation they’ve always used false patriotism and deception as weapons to promote a self-serving agenda to undermine ...