(ThyBlackMan.com) The proverbial knot of Gordium was impossible to untie. Anyone clever enough to untie it would supposedly become the king of Asia. Many princes tried; all failed. When Alexander the Great arrived, he was challenged to unravel the impossible knot. Instead, he pulled out his sword and cut through it. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Lawmakers and bureaucrats in official Washington often act as if their decisions lead the nation forward. News from Iowa this week, however, shows once again that the culture leads and politicians lag behind. Kim Reynolds became Iowa’s Governor last May when her predecessor (Terry Branstad) resigned to serve as the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “SCL Elections, which formed scandal-hit Cambridge Analytica in 2013, said it had interfered in Nigeria in 2007, Trinidad and Tobago in 2010, and also stirred up ethnic tensions in Latvia in 2006. BBC News said it had seen a brochure published by London-based SCL in which potential new customers could ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Thanks in large part to President Trump’s aggressive deregulation agenda—through which the president has demonstrated a commitment to cutting or restructuring unnecessary, burdensome rules that hamper innovation and growth—the economy is booming. Unfortunately, one poorly considered rule that seems to have escaped his notice will hurt the businesses that provide ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) As we commemorate the 50th anniversary of the April 4, 1968 assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., it is important to once again take note of the intense hatred FBI director, J. Edgar Hoover, had for Dr. King and Brother Malcolm X. Anthony Summers, in his book,” Official and Confidential: ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The ID (Investigation Discovery) channel reenacts real-life crime stories. I watched two stories in which single woman homeowners heard men breaking into their homes. In both incidents, the best the unarmed women could do was grab their phone, hide in their closet like scared rabbits and dial 911. My heart ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I want to get right into this and not waste words so let’s go. First of all, my prayers and condolences to the family of Stephon Clark. I encourage them not to let these police officers nor the Sacramento Police Department get away with his. Hard evidence of guilty cops ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Hattie Carroll (1911-1963) was a 51-year-old restaurant server who was murdered by a white aristocrat, the 24-year-old William Devereux Zantzinger (1939-2009) who struck her with a cane because she took to long to serve him a drink. The site was the old Emerson Hotel in Baltimore, at an event, The ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Adding to the jeremiads from the phalanx of skin-color pimps and harlots is Latonia Westerfield. I happened upon an article by Westerfield titled: “Why Black People Don’t Need Jason L. Riley’s Help.” (March 25, 2015) Westerfield, as is typical with her kind, had her Hanes, Jockey’s, Victoria’s Secret or whatever ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Is it possible that Donald Trump is winning on trade? Last week, Trump apparently delivered two under-appreciated victories as a result of his threat of stiff tariffs and renegotiated trade deals. First, Seoul has agreed to reduce long-standing non-tariff trade barriers that have reduced American exports to Korea. Though the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) One of my pet peeves involves a class of Negroes who have convinced themselves that their status as “Conservatives” translates into superior insight regarding the path to racial reconciliation or uplift. If I did not know any better, I would be convinced that “black Conservatives” have discovered the Holy Grail ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Ladies and Gentlemen: Last week the staff of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference held one of the most important meetings we have ever convened. We had intensive discussions and analyses of our work and of the challenges which confront us and our nation, and at the end we made a ...