(ThyBlackMan.com) Voter suppression is a serious issue that threatens the integrity of our elections. As a community, we should be deeply involved in combating voter suppression and expanding access to the polls for all Americans – particularly in the wake of the destructive ruling in Shelby County v. Holder. As ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) After the U.S. Senate vote to repeal ‘Obamacare’ failed again, Dr. E. Faye Williams said, “The stakes were high, and when it was time to do the right thing, Senators John McCain (AZ), Susan Collins (ME) and Lisa Murkowski (AK) rose to the challenge, along with 48 of their ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Recently, while in Paris, President Trump complimented France’s first lady on how beautiful she looked, and feminists around the world lost their damn minds saying Trump was sexist, “humiliating for the American people,” yada, yada, yada. I immediately had a flashback to a conversation I had a few weeks ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Recently, lawmakers in Tennessee have now made the prison environment for female inmates, particularly female inmates from poor urban areas less humane and more deplorable. According to reports, inmates in Tennessee jails have been given the option to receive lighter prison sentences if they agree to receive vasectomies or insert ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Candidates say campaigns are about articulating programs, issues and priorities. But people vote for candidates based on how that person makes them feel. Consciously or unconsciously, elections are about giving voice to values. Voters are moral proxies who want to know that a candidate or elected official truly cares ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) BLACK LIVES SHALL MATTER……..This is not to say that Black lives are greater than or less than any other lives. It has nothing to do with other races except for the central fact that BLACK LIVES have been the bull’s eye of every prejudicial and discriminatory practice since the making ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The song, “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction” may have been recorded decades ago, first by Otis Redding and later by the Rolling Stones, but its message is still true today. Its lyrics, “I’ve tried, and tried” strike a resonant chord with anyone who ever felt they received less than ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Obviously, one of the most pressing foreign-policy issues facing President Trump’s administration concerns North Korea. Questions of how far the fat, hedonistic little hamster who currently runs that nation will go toward the acquisition of strategic nuclear weapons and what he might do with them are certainly of grave ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The reason Republicans can’t “come together” on a repeal-and-replacement plan for Obamacare is that the American people haven’t come together on what they want. True, polls show Obamacare remains unpopular. But the various Republican replacement proposals have polled even worse. And when you break down the answers, Obamacare is ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Even though I am black, I was raised on Superman’s; truth, justice and the American way. I always believed Americans were the world’s good guys. As a kid, I watched my mom cry over “I Love Lucy” TV stars Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz getting a divorce. I remember our ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Putin makes Trump look like the lightweight he is, and that makes the American people look like lightweights. Leaders all over the world know that the best way to get whatever they want out of Donald Trump is to give him a parade, because Trump is a self-absorbed idiot, and ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “Chicago has some of the strictest gun restrictions in the United States with some of the highest rates of gun violence. Gang members are not buying them legally, and the police are pulling guns off the street on a daily basis, so where are they coming from?” http://www.activistpost.com/2016/09/gang-members-implicate-u-s-govt-dumping-crates-guns-chicago.html My brother in ...