(ThyBlackMan.com) Family anecdotes and research studies have shown that children of color in K-12 schools face bias. They are more likely to be disciplined harshly and less likely to be identified as gifted and therefore unable to take part in special programs for gifted children. This kind of Racism is particularly ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Having just concluded the nation’s month-long celebration of Black History Month, the Republican Party and the conservative movement had one of the most disastrous months in my lifetime. I have warned anyone who will listen that race will be the most dominant issue as we head into the 2020 election ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Recently, in thumbing through my computer to satisfy my intellectual curiosity, as I sometimes do, a video and story on the Ebony.com site caught my eye. Steve Harvey was interviewing Mo’nique and the topic of integrity came up. In an intense exchange, here is what Mo’nique said, “Before the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Recently, at Lawton Chiles Middle Academy in Lakeland, Florida, an 11 year old black boy refused to stand for a flag that represents colonialism and slavery told substitute teacher Ava Alvarez that the flag is racist and Alvarez was offended by the 11 year old black boy’s refusal to stand ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris is becoming one of her party’s leading contenders for president. She is running second in the polls of announced Democratic candidates only after Bernie Sanders. Joe Biden leads both of them but he has not announced that he is running. Harris launched her campaign on January 27 ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I recently watched the original Jussie Smollett ABC interview on Youtube in which he claimed to have been attacked by racist homophobic Trump supporters. Considering that we now know Jussie staged his attack and has been arrested for filing a false police report https://bit.ly/2XeehvL, I thought, “This guy should be ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) According to some historians, Afrodescendents first entered these united states in 1619 off the coast of Virginia. If we believe that narrative, Afrodescendents have been in this country for 400 years. If the people who were kidnapped and brought here had to tell the story, would they tell the same ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The 2020 election season is already off to a start with candidates announcing their presidential runs in both major parties. Not only that but minor parties have a number of candidates as well. As expected everyone’s discussing these candidates: how genuine is Senator Kamala Harris, what about her previous stances ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Jussie Smollett has now been charged with filing a false police report in an alleged hate crime incident that it appears Smollett orchestrated on himself. The actor, according to the head of the Chicago Police Department, was apparently trying to gain publicity by portraying himself as a victim of ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Elizabeth Warren desperately wants to shift attention away from the racial controversies that have ensnared her and other Democrats. Senator Warren turned heads recently during a campaign stop in Iowa when she said, “By the time we get to 2020, Donald Trump may not even be President,” adding that, “In ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Blacks are the demographic most public policy institutes focus considerable resources and intellectual energy on, trying to resolve the issues that plague same. Friday, Feb. 8, 2019, The Manhattan Institute for Policy Research (MI) hosted a panel forum titled: “Barriers To Black Progress: Structural, Cultural, Or Both?” I’m honored to ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Stalking or attacking the children of politicians isn’t about being right or left – it’s about right and wrong. That’s why, when the Daily Mail published an “exposé” of sorts on Malia Obama, conservatives were some of the first to come to her defense, from Ben Shapiro to Matt Walsh. ...