(ThyBlackMan.com) These days, their is a new and disturbing trend that’s been very common amongst a lot of black and white people on social media and it’s what I personally call social media/YouTube opportunists. Opportunism comes in all forms from parasitic to greedy and this mindset has psychologically poisoned the minds ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Cheers to New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu, one of the first mayors to take Confederate statues down and to make the strong point that these statues represent nothing but oppression. You should check out the speech he delivered, in May, at MarketWatch.com. More cheers to Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh who ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) American monuments are like mile markers on the highway. They let us know how far we’ve come and how much further we need to go. President Trump was right last week to question whether monuments of our Founding Fathers would be next in line to be destroyed after anti-free speech ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) On July 30th, our country marked Medicare and Medicaid’s 52nd birthday—enacted as Title XVIII and Title XIX of the Social Security Act, and signed into law as part of Lyndon Johnson’s 1965 War on Poverty. For the very first time in our country, all Americans aged 65 or older were ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Charlottesville, Virginia, a city named after Britain’s first black queen, was the scene of a bloody riot Saturday, Aug. 12. The fray resulted in the death of one woman, who was mowed down by a car; plus, there were many other people injured. Have politicians and the news media ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I pointed out in a previous article that “Trump supporters are constantly claiming that “Deep State” is out to get him. Deep State is not “out to get” Trump, they’re simply trying to protect America from an idiot. That’s their job. . Donald Trump is his own worst enemy, and ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) As Africans in America, we need to grab control over some things to uplift the black community. One major thing we must find a way to construct in our community is our own educational system. The benefits to that could lead us to many opportunities to raise a wealthier community, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Very few U.S. Presidents have been as disliked as Donald Trump. He has been one of the most controversial presidents in American history because of his persona, his brash campaign during the 2016 Election, and his head-scratching campaign slogan, “Make America Great Again”. It is not surprising to hear celebrities ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) If President Trump were to stop his motorcade and have carrion removed from the roadway, Trump haters and craven, progressive Republicans would accuse him of decreasing the food supply for animals that feast upon same. My analogy is reference to the caustic feigned moral outrage that is tantamount to acts ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Will another HBCU “bite the dust?” Truly, it depends on us. Pennsylvania’s Cheyney University, the oldest HBCU in the nation (founded in 1837) has been on probation since November 2015. If the Middle States Commission on Higher Education does not accept a sustainability report that is due on September 1, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Many people are highly insulted by confederate statues and monuments, and they want them taken down and/or destroyed. Since the latest movement in New Orleans to eliminate these relics that commemorate folks who tried to secede from the Union, which resulted in a war that cost 700,000 lives, some Black ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In 2015, CNN reported that 49% of Americans thought that racism was a big problem in the United States. Not surprisingly, people of color and Whites had significantly differing views regarding the subject. 66% of Blacks and 64% of Hispanics thought that racism was a big problem, while only ...