(ThyBlackMan.com) As a member of the infamous Wilmington Ten case in North Carolina from 1972 to 2012, I witnessed firsthand why the criminal justice system in the United States needed to be thoroughly reformed. We had been unjustly sentenced in 1972 to a combined total of 282 years in prison for ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In 2018, the Federal Government increased maximum allowable contributions to retirement plans, such as 401-K, IRA, ROTH IRA, SEP, etc. plans. Why is Congress being generous and increasing retirement contributions? A. Congress really cares about our welfare. They want to help taxpayers. B. This is an automatic inflationary increase. Congress ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Donald Trump was right. When asked why black voters should vote for him, he answered, “What have they got to lose?” Virtually every major city in the country is controlled by Democrats. In every one of those cities, low-income, most black families are forced to send their children to the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The problem with the 24 hour news cycle is that news memory lasts only 24 hours. Certainly it does not last 70 years – say back to 1962 and Baker v. Carr, which established guidelines regarding the political-question doctrine, or even a few years earlier, to President Eisenhower and how ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) This was my first Thanksgiving without my preacher dad who went to be with the Lord in June at age 90. I smiled remembering when I was a little boy, Dad included me and my four younger siblings in his sermon. Every year, Dad’s east Baltimore storefront church sold tickets ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Even when Donald Trump was running for president, it was pretty evident that the establishment press was biased against him. The reason for this is not hard to discern; Trump was appealing not only to a majority of Americans, but he was doing so with values and proposals that are ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) What’s the last remaining group in America that can be slandered, smeared, maligned and accused of racism, sexism and homophobia with no proof required? White men. On election night 2016, CNN’s Van Jones attributed Donald Trump’s victory to “whitelash.” That is, racist whites rose up in fear and anger over ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Like any country, America has gone through a lot of development since it first started to grow. Entire cities and towns have been born, quickly filling with vast numbers of people, and expanding to be some of the biggest on the planet. Along with this, though, the US also has ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I’m a true crime fanatic. Unsolved mysteries and the like fascinate me not in the often grisly result but in how someone could go through with it and the lead up to doing these crimes. Usually, they’re not simply random occurrences with no story. What makes these cases even more ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I worked for 15 years as a teacher at Sumner Elementary School on Chicago’s West Side. This story brought tears to my eyes. An underserved North Lawndale inner-city community being used as a pawn in the governments/Chicago sting operation. Promising beginnings This curious story begins with seemingly-innocent intentions. In the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Do you understand that your misery is job security for D.C. Democrats? We used to teach our kids the value of sportsmanship. We’d tell them something like, “everyone loses. What matters is that you tried your best and you learned something from the loss. You can come back and get ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) After adding at least 37 seats and taking control of the House by running on change, congressional Democrats appear to be about to elect as their future leaders three of the oldest faces in the party. Nancy Pelosi of California and Steny Hoyer of Maryland have led the House Democrats ...