(ThyBlackMan.com) Currently, there is a hearing into white nationalism. I know, right? After centuries of this stuff it’s now an issue worthy of Congress holding hearings into it. I certainly didn’t expect a hearing after the South’s succession from the Union or when the Klan was formed. There wasn’t one into ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Mike Espy is an American politician who served as the 25th United States Secretary of Agriculture between 1993 and 1994, who announced that he was running for Senate in March 2018. Espy eventually faced Republican Cindy Hyde-Smith in November 2018, ultimately losing to her. A black Mississippian, Espy’s background ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The student loan crisis in the U.S. has hit breaking point, with a total of 70% of students graduating with debt. Black students in particular have been hard-hit, since 77.7% take out federal student loans to fund college – a significantly higher figure than the national average for white ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Despite a billion dollars worth of negative press to destroy Trump before he was elected – over 500,000 lying articles claiming Trump colluded with Russia and the deep state’s $30 million illegal investigation, Trump has miraculously survived. Incredibly, Trump has stayed on offense, laser-focused on making America great again. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Protecting the border to keep “the illegals” out because they will—there’s a number of reasons that the right lists—bring ruin to the fabric of the United States of America. Let’s just file it under that. The belief is that they will gobble up resources and compromise American Values ™ by ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Although my male contemporaries consider my standard refrain that “Black America does not move unless Black women move them” to be posturing aimed at currying favor with the majority female audiences present during my lectures, the truth of the matter is that my people do not move forward without ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) If you want one number that encapsulates the enormity of the economic turnaround under President Donald Trump, it is this: In America, as of the end of February, there were 7.1 million unfilled jobs, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. This number is larger than the entire ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) There are those among us in the Black community who believe that backing President Trump is 100-percent the right thing to do. They look at us who are either squarely in the middle or on the left as still holding residence on the Democrat Plantation. Those of us who are ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) There have been several films released the last two years focusing on 1950-70’s era Black-White relationships, The Green Bookwon an Oscar in 2018; that film was a reverse of the 1989 film, Driving Miss Daisy but in my opinion was a very well acted film. Now comes Best of Enemies ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) On Monday, President Donald Trump designated the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps a terrorist organization, the first time the United States has designated part of another nation’s government as such a threat. Iran’s Supreme National Security Council responded by declaring U.S. Central Command a terrorist group. With 5,000 U.S. troops in ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) An appropriately Twitteresque meme circulated recently on that platform: Write a sad story in just three words. This was an homage to Ernest Hemingway, who, challenged to write a sad story in only six words, grabbed the nearest blank paper and scrawled: “For sale: baby shoes. Never worn.” Or so ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Fifty-one years ago, this month, the Fair Housing Act (the Act) was enacted to ensure that housing discrimination was illegal. Yet, just days before the annual observance of Fair Housing Month began, headline news articles reminded the nation that housing discrimination still exists. For example, on March 19, the Office ...