(ThyBlackMan.com) I’ve never met Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a 28-year old New York activist, but I am surely looking forward to it. This giant-slayer of an organizer (she worked for Senator Bernie Sanders during the 2016 campaign) was out-spent, but certainly not out-worked, by her opponent, Rep. Joseph Crowley (D-NY). Crowley had served ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) It is always strange and often amusing to witness the shock of others at things that have been everpresent in not only their lives but also the lives of everyone they know. This somewhat funny problem occurs every time I lecture in front of any segment of the black community. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I’ve got great news for pro-choice feminists like Whoopi Goldberg. Supreme Court justices don’t perform enemas or abortions, they simply interpret law. Sadly, when you rely on your values, morals, and worth to be affirmed by feelings, like-minded peers, and government regulation rather than by God and objective truth, it’s ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Today America dominates the globe. It’s easy to forget that the United States almost didn’t exist. In 1776 a rag-tag group of British colonists met in Philadelphia. Resistance to British exactions had begun more than a decade before. Armed resistance broke out the previous year. Angry over British restrictions on ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In 1852, Frederick Douglas posed a question that reverberates to this day: What, to the slave, is your Fourth of July? Some thirteen years later, President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, freeing the 3.5 million southern slaves. As a result, according to When the Fourth of July Was a ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I’m sure President Obama’s heart was in the right place. A few years ago, his Department of Education, in conjunction with the Department of Justice, studied school discipline data and came to a troubling conclusion: African American students in the 2011-12 school year had been suspended or expelled at a ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Republicans in name only (RINOs), notwithstanding, Democrats haven’t just lost their minds – they can only be described as loathsome and duplicitous, if not the personification of evil. And yet they consider themselves the arbiters of morals and moral standards. Even if the idea of morality could be loosely applied ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Racial bigotry is analogous to a train that makes periodic stops along a well-worn path. This train is a familiar site for indigenous populations, persons of African descent, Hispanics, and to poor whites. Although many have chosen to forget the roots of America’s new immigrants — the Irish, Russian, Italian, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) A new study on racial disparities in police conduct found that differences in offending by suspects, not racism, explains officers’ responses. In the study “Is There Evidence of Racial Disparity in Police Use of Deadly Force?” professors from Michigan State and Arizona State universities analyzed officer-involved fatal shootings in 2015 ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) On the average day, I will guess that I come across at lease one self-proclaimed “Black Revolutionary.” You know the type of self-proclaimed arm chair revolutionary that I speak of. Everyone, except for those who are truly fortunate, have had the misfortune meeting at least one of the alluded to ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Years of experience has convinced me that those occupying political positions do not always embrace change. Truthfully, the alluded to figures never embrace change if it arrives in a form that is demanding their removal from office. It is an understanding of the alluded to resistance to change that fuels ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) On May 22, 1856, Representative Preston Brooks entered the floor of the United States Senate, approached abolitionist Senator Charles Sumner, and beat the senator with a cane, almost taking his life. Brooks was provoked by a passionate anti-slavery speech that Sumner had delivered in the Senate three days earlier, in ...