(ThyBlackMan.com) “Since 1804 Haiti has maintained national independence. I fling these facts at the feet of the detractors of the Negro and of Haiti. They may help them to solve the problem of her future. They not only indicate the Negro’s courage, but demonstrate his intelligence as well. No better test ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) When the unemployment rate dropped and economic conditions improved under the leadership of President Barack Obama, 45 derided the gains as “fake news”. He suggested that the monthly Employment Situation (www.bls.gov) reports of the Bureau of Labor Statistics were inaccurate and “made up”. These are the monthly reports that detail ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The Schumer shutdown of the federal government epitomizes the Democrats’ entire strategy for working with the remarkable presidency of Donald Trump: No, No, Never-ever. When their Party held the White House, Democrats demanded “clean” spending bills, stripped of any unrelated issues. This more reasonable approach has been replaced with a ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Why are we afraid of racists? Racist people have no or little effect on me. My book “Tribalism” points out what will bring us out of misery. In “It’s OK to Leave the Plantation,” I illustrate the only way out for us. The idea that black folks must wait in ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) President Donald Trump should be celebrating his historic accomplishments on the one-year anniversary of his presidency. Instead, he’s fighting obstructionist Democrats who are making good on their pledge to resist the president’s efforts to “Make America Great Again.” Democrats caused the 2018 government shutdown by voting against a continuing resolution, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) U.S. Sen. Cory Booker made a fool of himself on Tuesday of this week. In a hearing in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee at which Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen testified, Booker loudly professed shock and indignation at the allegations President Donald Trump had referred to certain countries as ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) When first hearing about TV-One’s cancellation of Roland Martin’s show for “budgetary” reasons, my immediate reaction was bull crap. I am convinced that his show was cancelled because some advertisers and some Trumpets were outraged because of Roland’s Afrocentric perspective when reporting and interpreting news. Though I didn’t always agree ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Last Monday was supposed to be a day in which African people in St. Petersburg, Florida would come together to celebrate one of their heroes in MLK, but instead it was another real life episode of Colonial State Terror imposed on the African community by the corrupted city government of ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In 2013, House Republicans shut down the federal government in a doomed effort to defund then President Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act. It lasted 17 days and accomplished nothing. Amazingly, Democrats have decided to follow the same lame playbook. Back in 2013, Obama called it the “Republican shutdown” — and ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) This year, as every year, I will be joining the hundreds of thousands who will be arriving in Washington, D.C., for the March for Life. March for Life notes the anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision, Jan. 22, 1973, which legalized abortion on demand in our country. The event ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Attorney General Jeff Sessions gets it wrong. On core issue after core issue — civil rights, voting rights, women’s rights, police reform and particularly mass incarceration — he is a destructive force. The United States locks up more people per capita than any country in the world. China, run by ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) On Jan. 15 we celebrated Dr. King’s Day as a national day of service. This was as it should be. Our love, dedication and service to others were at the heart of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s prophetic message to America – even as his vision for our future ...