(ThyBlackMan.com) “The White House judges nominees on the merits of their character and not on the clients they once represented as counsel.” This was the terse statement that #45 Trump issued in defense of the instant and loud criticism of his pick, Eric Dreiband to head the Justice Department’s Civil Rights ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The only time I can remember TIME moving as slowly as it has during the past six months was when I was eight and had to wait an entire year between Christmases. True or not, it feels like the Trump Administration has slowed the progress of time and assigned ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) PBS NewsHour aired a story last year about Milwaukee, saying many residents call the city “the worst place to be a black man in America.” It talked about last year’s riots in the city after a cop shot a black man. One black Milwaukee resident explained that this is ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The other day my daughter burst into my home, eyes reddened and swollen from tears, yelling, “Somebody needs to do something about Donald Trump! He’s a bully, a fabricator, a womanizer, and he’s racially insensitive! He is so not Presidential!” Mirthfully, I smiled at her naiveté. Yes, I do agree ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Passports among our people is growing in popularity as we desire to see more of the world. It is a beautiful thing to see so many of us deciding to explore different cultures and places. With that being said, it is understood that the world we live in is not ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Stevie Wonder’s call to say I love you to black Americans was rejected by black and white Leftists. Leftists were outraged over Wonder’s compassionate message to his fellow blacks, “It is in your hands to stop all the killing and shooting wherever it might be. Because you cannot say ‘Black ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Georgetown University professor, Michael Eric Dyson, suggested in January that whites should open up “individual reparations accounts” to literally pay back black Americans for slavery. Consequently, in March of this year, I wrote an article titled, “The Case for Reparations.” That article resonated deeply with many that have an appreciation ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) All I do is win, win, win no matter what Got money on my mind, I can never get enough And every time I step up in the building Everybody hands go up And they stay there, and they say yeah And they stay there, up, down, up, down, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) It is a shame that our government don’t do their jobs with their constituency in mind. It’s very easy to sit on capitol hill and make laws that don’t benefit the American people. One can raise the argument that they don’t see themselves as one of us. They are so ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Two weeks ago, entertainer extraordinaire Bill Cosby was handed a hung jury in his sexual assault trial in Norristown, Pa., a suburb of Philadelphia. Regardless of what you think of Cosby and the allegations made against him, a jury of his peers spoke and they concluded that they couldn’t ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) My regular readers know that I have friends in all walks-of-life, and some practice old-school lifestyle avocations. I communicate with them as often as possible and sometimes their perspectives serve as viewpoints I use in my articles. I have a friend who could be called a naturalist. He’s retired ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) My “Rewriting American History” column of a fortnight ago, about the dismantling of Confederate monuments, generated considerable mail. Some argued there should not be statues honoring traitors such as Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson and Jefferson Davis, who fought against the Union. Victors of wars get to write the ...