(ThyBlackMan.com) Ilhan Omar (D-MN) is a member of Congress. Let me repeat that. Ms. Omar is a member of Congress. So how dare Elliot Abrams, 45’s nominee as Venezuelan envoy presume to interrupt the Congresswoman as she made a statement and interrogated him? He was relatively docile when white people questioned ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I don’t watch the show “Empire,” so I’d never heard of Jussie Smollett before the story broke that he was physically assaulted in an apparent racist, homophobic attack. I suspect most Americans, like myself, thought his story was fishy from the very beginning. Nonetheless, as Americans tend to do, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Last week, I wrote about the “State of the Black Union.” I used that column to talk about the state of the Black community and it seemed to catch on like wildfire. In a similar vein, since it is Black History Month, I want to discuss the state of Black ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) With earbuds in my ears and wired to my phone, I listen to national Christian broadcasts during my daily walk. Back to back, I heard two black pastors with large congregations. It was stunning hearing how clueless both men were regarding the truth of various political issues. Both pastors parroted ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) We’re in Black History Month and we still don’t get it, African people have the oldest, longest and most creative history of any people or ethnic group in the planet; but we don’t do the research or study the research others have done to show just how ingenious our ancestors ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The more I continue to learn about world history, and the roles that Africa and people of African descent played in it, the less enthusiastic I become about celebrating a “Black History Month.” To relegate the recounting of our story to a single month is analogous to the way ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) LGBTQ – private preference or socially perverted menace? LGBTQ should be the personal or private “business” of those who are a part of it. But that is not what is happening. When they throw what should be their personal choices in the face of normal heterosexual people, it becomes our ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The Right Reverend William Barber has revived Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Poor People’s Campaign. He has reminded us that the triple evils of an age were racism, militarism, and poverty. But he has advanced the struggle for social and economic justice by including ecological devastation and the intersection between ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Both of America’s great national parties are coalitions. But it is the Democratic Party that never ceases to celebrate diversity — racial, religious, ethnic, cultural — as its own and as America’s “greatest strength.” Understandably so, for the party is home to a multitude of minorities. It is the domain ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Many people assume that the decision to overturn Roe v. Wade is simply a matter of brute force, as it were – i.e., achieving political victories that force through the appointment of enough previously convinced pro-life justices to achieve that outcome. Consistent with the injudicious temper of our times, no ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) At this point, there should be no surprise when a report surfaces regarding a high-ranking elected official “blackening up” during some period of their life. The problem for Black America is that such figures possess much power over their lives. The latest in a long line of such Whites is ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The “blackface scandal” proved beneficial for two things. It displaced the frenzy over Democratic Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam’s support for a law lifting many restrictions on late-term abortion. It also took away headlines and news print space from the commonwealth’s Democratic lieutenant governor, who faces two sexual assault allegations. But ...