(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 ...
(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 ...