(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. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Does anyone know where all those free trade Democrats went? Since Donald Trump burst onto the scene, liberal policy wonks and their Democratic allies have had a field day torching him for his tariff policies. Last year when I testified before the Senate on auto tariffs, nearly every Democrat on ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Politicians and Benjamins is not exactly one of the best kept secrets. Everybody knows no lobbyist, no interest group, no individual gives campaign donations to a candidate or incumbent they believe will not work in their best interest. Why should they? I certainly would not. Why is it that Congresswoman ...
(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 ...