(ThyBlackMan.com) During his Beyond Vietnam speech, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., once said, “I am nevertheless greatly saddened, for such questions mean that the inquirers have not really known me, my commitment or my calling.” He was referring to why many people questioned why he was so publicly against the Vietnam ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Jerry Seinfeld has described his eponymous sitcom as “a show about nothing.” And that’s exactly what this latest government shutdown was. After 35 days, the longest shutdown in history, absolutely nothing was accomplished. The bill that was passed and signed on Friday was virtually the same deal that was before ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) On Saturday, Donald Trump shrewdly flipped the table on Nancy Pelosi in the government shutdown standoff. He has now proposed a grand bargain on immigration: legalization of some 1 million so-called Dreamers — the foreigners who were brought into the U.S. illegally by their parents — and an immediate end ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) This year, 2019 marks the 400th year since the Dutch ship White Lion arrived in Jamestown in the British Colony that was to become the Commonwealth of Virginia with “20 and odd Negroes” from Africa. The arrival of these indentured enslaved Africans was the opening chapter in one of the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Hillary Clinton and New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced their satanic bill to allow abortions through all nine months up to birth. The intense jubilant faces of these two Democrats in the photo while launching their baby killing campaign was bone-chillingly evil. Clinton and Cuomo held their joined hands high ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Writing to fellow clergy from a Birmingham Jail (The Negro Is Your Brother), Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. – gravely concerned about all who were poor and experiencing inequality – said, “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) A political scalping occurred in Washington D.C. last week. Once again the liberal media and Democrats played the predictable race politics to attack Iowa Rep. Steve King, while members of the GOP political class fell in line—obliging the left and piling on one of their own in the act of ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) This week the U.S. pauses to honor the late great Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. But I want to talk about the other “King” making news: Congressman Steve King of Iowa. I must admit, I was as bewildered as he when he said, “When did white nationalism and white ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “He who excuses himself, accuses himself.” — Puerto Rican proverb More than 109 lobbyists and 39 Democrat Members of Congress attended a “winter retreat” last weekend in Puerto Rico, ostensibly to help raise funds for damage caused by Hurricane Maria in 2017, reports Fox News. The fun in the sun ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The media’s “President Donald Trump is a congenital liar” narrative reeks of rampant hypocrisy to those who repeatedly complained while the same media gave President Barack Obama pass after pass for eight years. Obama wanted to become a “transformational” president. He succeeded, thanks in large part to a fawning, compliant ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) At the risk of being accused of repeating myself, I will say once again that Black people who live in the continent of North America (aka USA) continue to recognize the importance of maximizing their economic potential. In 2018, as in the previous 100 or so years, we as a ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) This government shutdown is now longer than any in history. The media keep using the word “crisis.” “Shutdown sows chaos, confusion and anxiety!” says The Washington Post. “Pain spreads widely.” The New York Times headlined, it’s all “just too much!” But wait. Looking around America, I see people going about ...