(ThyBlackMan.com) Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) rolled out a plan to offer grants up to $25,000 to low-income black individuals to help with a down payment and closing costs on home purchases. At first glance, to the economically uninformed, this seems like it’s a good idea. We want as many people ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Donald has no chance of winning re-election in 2020 for the very same reason that I pointed out that Hillary Clinton was a “Democratic Disaster Waiting to Happen” 4 months prior to the 2016 election – because the people hated her. The voters didn’t know Donald Trump at the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) So they gave us a “black” president to pacify us and far too many of us quickly forgot the horrors, treachery and racist history of this country. As Mitch McConnell said, they consider that reparations. But all the while racism was still rearing its ugly head and far less ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Coming out of the first round of debates for the Democratic nomination for President, the defining messages of the upcoming campaign are beginning to take shape. The competing themes are revolution (big ideas), versus restoration (return to a traditional American presidency). The subtext is a generational battle although, unlike ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Instagram’s hashtag #Blackmensmiling beams with the faces of Black men in spite of a world against us. The demand to smile is implicit when entering public spaces to make White people feel safe and unthreatened. Not doing so jeopardizes our safety resulting in police calls—solely out of anxiety and fear—, aggression, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) How does a president agree to one thing and change his mind? That’s what happened with the census citizenship question. The Supreme Court sent it to a lower court and neatly avoided the question. President Trump’s own department decided to print the census forms without the question about citizenship. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) President Lyndon Johnson once said, “If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: ‘President Can’t Swim.’” Presidents, historically, have always had a significant portion of the media opposed to both the administration itself and their policies. Today ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) You gotta hand it to them – it’s an innovative strategy to run for President by taking the position that your country is garbage and that its are people deplorable monsters. It’ll be interesting to see how the Democrats fare on their “America sucks!” platform. The last week has ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) A mystery is stalking newsrooms across America. Journalists are at a loss to explain why farmers, hurt by illegal, punitive tariffs from China, continue to support President Trump. Like the astronomers who couldn’t explain deviations in Neptune’s orbit, pundits don’t know why farmers are behaving the way they do. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I know I’m not the only Trump supporter who is tired of progressives maliciously accusing President Trump and his supporters of racism. They’ve used the slander against conservatives for years, and it has only intensified in the Trump era. Of all their other nasty smears, they get the most ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The fashion industry may seem shallow, but it’s more political than you think. Fashion and politics have collided many times over the years. Men have used their clothes to convey their political and social beliefs. Your political identity is a major part of your fashion sense and personality. While ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In a recent moment of reflection regarding her brilliant film When They See Us, Ava Duvernay addressed a reoccurring issue among Black America. The issue? How much trauma and injustice can African-Americans witness before it irreparably damages the Soul? Duvernay’s assertion that historical recollections are crucial to Black America coming ...