(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 ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Recently, the NAACP, alongside members of the Congressional Black Caucus, gathered on the steps of Capitol Hill to demand a halt of the Trump administration’s continued attempts to force Thomas Farr—a known racist with ties to the late segregationist Senator Jesse Helms—into the federal judgeship of North Carolina. Located in ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Every time you think you’ve seen the worst of it, some new outrage or scandal arises. Whether it’s the lying, the stealing or general moral corruption, there seems to be no bottom to the depths that this administration will sink. Writer Jared Yates Sexton called it “the inevitability of the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) My column a fortnight ago, titled “Diversity & Inclusion Harm Even In 2018,” focused on the dumbing down of science, technology, engineering and mathematics curricula to achieve a more pleasing mixture of participants in terms of race and sex. Heather Mac Donald, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, wrote ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) People find every week since Trump has been President that he keeps doing things and saying things that are racist, foolish, discriminatory and downright ignorant. His actions violate the Constitution that he took an oath to protect and he lies at every turn. Recently he even said openly to t ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) As the horrific sounds of children crying out to their parents, after having been separated from said parents at the border, have been replayed on news outlets and social media the public is also crying out for their administration to find their humanity and but an end to the horror. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Faith and prayer have been the backbone of the African American community since we came upon these shores. We have counted on our faith leaders (the roll call would include Revs. Richard Allen, Absalom Jones, James Walker Hood, Martin Luther King, Jr., Wyatt Tee Walker, Jesse L. Jackson, William Barber, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Democrats have nothing to offer voters this election cycle except outrage and protests. As a recovering liberal myself, I’ve told my radio audience for years “democrats make you mad, so you don’t have to think.” Heading into the midterm elections, it’s clear their strategy hasn’t changed post-Obama. I’ve grown increasingly ...