(ThyBlackMan.com) November 8th,2016 saw the election of a new president. Many were banking on Hillary to win. Yet the sheer number of African-Americans who backed Trump have clearly no skills in studying a candidate closely. Most people should have been disturbed by his behavior mainly of a racist and bigoted nature. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Somewhere near the top of the mountainous volumes of presidential campaign post mortem nay saying, arm chair quarterbacking, told you so blather, and so-called scientific political analysis of why Clinton lost is the assertion that Clinton rival, Bernie Sanders, would have handily beaten Donald Trump. That’s said because Bernie ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In the film (and of course the book) “The Godfather,” there was a period in the story in which a full-on gang war broke out between the five rival mob families. During that time, it wasn’t safe for the mob soldiers to be seen anywhere in public, including in ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The day after one of the greatest political upsets in world history, I dug out my July 2016 exchange with “David,” an Ohio left-wing retired law professor whom I once considered my best friend. He wrote: “Larry, “Donald Trump — the screaming, the red face, the slashing hand gestures, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In light of countless and unwarranted murders of Black men–young and old–across the country, this writer is compelled to reexamine the role of the hired guns who are employed by the citizens to serve and protect the citizens. As civil servants, it is a prerequisite for police officers to protect ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Although simplistic in terminology, gangsters personify some of the most dualistic, complex, intriguing characters of American life. Many of them wrap themselves in an assortment of dangerous cloaks of thrilling, nail-biting existences–despite how fleeting–in order to obtain self-serving objectives. The oddity of these individuals is that they can’t be defined ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Any new program will have problems and unexpected issues until they are sorted out. So it is with the Affordable Care Act. Notice the Republicans, offered no real solutions to help the uninsured or medically ill but they were quick to tear down the efforts of others. Where was the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Rarely am I happier that I lack a larger audience than when I’m dead wrong about politics. My most recent piece wrongly predicted an easy victory for Hillary Clinton. I did so here, as well. With certainty, I declared Donald Trump “a loser.” In fact, so depressed was I about ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The latest spin out of Washington is that stock-market declines over the last 10 days are due to Donald Trump’s surge in the polls. Well, it is true that Wall Street tends to hate change — even when it’s positive. And if Donald Trump is anything, it is a ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) By the time you read this I trust you will have wiped away the slime and the grunge, regurgitated a few times, taken a good bath or shower, relentlessly scrubbed the stench from your bodies, and maybe even found it necessary to delouse. The dirty, filthy, hateful, distasteful, embarrassing, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “To continue in our current system without comprehensive data only stalls meaningful conversation and fuels empty debates, both within law enforcement and in the communities we serve.” — James B. Comey, F.B.I. Director, Uniform Crime Reporting Program, 2014 Following an explosive succession of high-profile police killings—many of them of unarmed ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Just a few days before the corrosive 2016 election, it occurs to me that no matter what the outcome, our social fabric has been shredded by the ugliness of this campaign. Sure, there have been ugly campaigns before, but this one has revealed the extent to which racism and ...