(ThyBlackMan.com) The crux of the most recent public spate involving Donald J. Trump is found in the unfortunate reality that far too many people believe that they are special. It is this belief that leads them to then believe that they should therefore be afforded special treatment regardless of the quality ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) There is a popular axiom that states, ‘A fool and his money shall soon part.’ There is quite possibly no more succinct means of describing the current economic state of Black America. Put simply, we have been foolish, if not completely reckless in regards to our collective economic dealings. Things ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Trump predictably wasted no time in crowing that he was the reason for the big plunge in the black jobless rate. It was part his trademark ego, and part a chance to score political points by digging at the Democrats talking. He bellowed his stock campaign spiel, “what do blacks ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) (Excerpts from the book titled, “The Fix This Time” @ amazon.com/dp/B00MI3PD2M). As a life long Democrat, you hate to see your party going down the wrong path. In borrowing a passage from the Holy Bible which is over 2,000 years old; Democrats need to come back to their “first love.” ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) A frequent point I have made in past columns has been about the educational travesty happening on many college campuses. Some people have labeled my observations and concerns as trivial, unimportant and cherry-picking. While the spring semester awaits us, let’s ask ourselves whether we’d like to see repeats of last ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Donald Trump is a menace to society. George Orwell prophetically noted, One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship. That Donald Trump has hijacked American democracy and is using it to reward his cronies and his ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “Everybody’s got to believe in something. I believe I’ll have another beer.” — W.C. Fields Having lost an election they thought they would win and unable to get over it; having been staggeringly wrong about their predictions that a Trump presidency would be the end of global economies; now putting ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) There’s plenty to celebrate in the December Bureau of Labor Statistics report showing black unemployment at 6.8 percent, the lowest ever since they started reporting the data in 1972. President Trump tweeted out his excitement and, of course, took credit for the good news. Has there ever been a politician ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) While being interviewed, I recalled two powerful incidents from many years ago when I sang at monthly Immigration Naturalization Citizenship ceremonies in Maryland. After the thousand or more citizenship applicants in the room took their Oath of Allegiance, the grand finale featured me singing my song, “Celebrate America”. http://bit.ly/2h0Swyv It ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) During the mentoring process, one rarely understands why they are being taught certain things. Oftentimes, one could be convinced that their mentor is insane as they seek to prepare you for a “higher purpose” as the next generation of race men/women. There is no doubt that experience has taught the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Excerpts from the book titled, “The Fix This Time” amazon.com/dp/B00MI3PD2M – Here is what Chuck Schumer, the Minority Leader of the Senate said the Democratic Party needed, after the defeat of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in the presidential election; “Democrats need a strong, bold, sharp-edged, and common-sense economic ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., born on January 15, 1929, turned 39 years old fifty years ago. Assassinated on April 4, 1968, he didn’t make it to 40. Yet in his scant 39 years on the planet, he upended the ways we think about race, capitalism, poverty, power, and imperialism. ...