Politics

(ThyBlackMan.com) A few days ago, I wrote an article about what’s been going on in Houston and the actual stories coming from the brothers and sisters down there in Houston. It’s quite obvious that The State doesn’t care about African people because The State only serves to protect their own best ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Monday was the 54th Anniversary of Dr. King’s “I have a Dream” speech. Americans took to social media and proved once again why this speech is possibly the best and worst rhetorical device for confronting systemic racism in America. Dr. King’s speech was a mix of the Bible, America’s ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Hurricane Harvey has been among the most destructive natural events in recent American history. It has generated a record amount of rainfall and has broken the all-time Texas rainfall record from a tropical storm or hurricane. Hurricane Harvey has already had billions of dollars of financial implications related to its ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) You looked the other way for decades as the GOP executed the Southern Strategy. You watched as they used African-Americans as a political football every four years and as a political foil in the years in between. You ignored Donald Trump’s heavy handed discrimination and racism against African-Americans and Mexicans ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) It is safe to say some members of the “clergy” in this country have simply lost their moral compass. They have decided they would rather trade their integrity, and devalue those in their congregation, for power and racism. Let’s be honest white Christians had a hand in the enslavement and ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) I rarely write about sports because while it is mostly viewed as a form of recreation and entertainment at its core it reflects the values and consciousness of our society and folks don’t like to be reminded of that. Some say sports is a form of tribalism a vicarious way ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) A scheme designed to evade an important Department of Education rule could soon lead to an estimated 41,000 former Corinthian College students and loan borrowers receiving more than $183 million in student loan relief. Aequitas Capital Management, a former financial services firm, is charged with acting in concert with ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Who would have guessed that the proper response to white supremacists marching in Charlottesville was to encourage election fraud?  At least, that’s the position taken by congressional Democrats.They apparently have forgotten the lessons of their party’s Jim Crow laws, poll taxes and the like. The good news out of ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Recently, another form of state-sanctioned genocide that’s been cloaked under the banner of “natural disaster” has once again been inflicted on the black community in the form of Hurricane Harvey. About a dozen years ago, Ray Nagin was also a neocolonial stooge for The State during his time as New ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) The reaction in many quarters to Hillary Clinton’s reflective, candid assessment in her book, What Happened, of her devastating loss to Donald Trump tells a lot about why she lost. She’s still being raked over the coals. She’s still called too guarded, not honest enough, too stiff, and even “robotic.” ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Patriotism is defined as “love for or devotion to one’s country” according to the Merriam-Webster dictionary. This definition proves how subjective patriotism is but it is a big topic in sports and especially the NFL due to the national anthem. National anthem protests have become as common a topic in ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) In a previous article that I wrote titled “Two Americas“, I explained the parasitic relationship between the suburbanites and urban people. Whenever the so-called “crime” happens in our community, house negroes are among the first to attack and slander our community by saying things like “Something’s wrong with us” or ...