(ThyBlackMan.com) I often hear the argument that the 2016 election is a binary election, offering no choice but Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton. If neither of the candidates represents you, this “binary” choice is no election at all. Yet representation is the defining practical goal of the U.S. Constitution. Turning voters ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Rubble is a noun that describes waste or debris from the demolition of buildings in the form of stone, brick, and/or concrete. After saying U.S. “generals under Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton have not been successful,” and that under their leadership “generals have beenreduced to rubble, reduced to a point where it is embarrassing ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Before anyone reaches for a pain reliever, note that the word love is in quotation marks, which gives readers an intuitive clue of what this commentary is really about. Now on to the count-down! 11. Famous and Devoted Loyalists: Stars who support Trump, reads like a Who’s Who of D-List ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Bernie Sanders and his liberal/progressive supporters will decide the outcome of this election. That’s how much power that Sanders still possesses. While he didn’t secure the Democratic nomination, as many of us had hoped he would, he is going to play a major role in who wins in November. As ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) For the past month I’ve watched lots of white Americans lose their minds in response to Colin Kaepernick and other NFL player’s peaceful National Anthem protests. I’ve seen them question these young men’s patriotism, malign their motives, attack their methods, and treat them with the kind of open contempt usually ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) People just don’t get it, and I am speaking specifically to blacks. Whether you like authority or not, we are a country based upon a system of laws that are there to protect us all. Accordingly when you have a gun in your hand, behaving in a threatening manner toward ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) A “never Trump” friend I’ve known since law school writes: “My former partner is old enough to have voted for Barry Goldwater. And like me, he is pro-choice, pro-gay rights and libertarian, so there are some Neanderthal Republicans out there who are just too distasteful to vote for. So, like ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) So… Rapper Lil’ Wayne apparently thinks racism doesn’t exist. The rapper was asked by Skip Bayless, co-host of the Fox Sports talk show Undisputed, about his opinion about the controversy surrounding 49ers quarterback, Colin Kaepernick. Lil’ Wayne asserted that he believed, “there was no such thing as racism.” Lil’ Wayne ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) After 9-11, the Bu$h administration instituted color code alerts and warnings to keep us hyped and fearful. Remember George W (Dubya) Bu$h and “Deadeye” Dick Cheney extremely unpopular even after 9-11 so they used the color code system whenever their approval ratings dropped or they felt they lost the attention ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Between the unemployment rate report that was released in early September, and the Census report on income and poverty that was released on September 13, President Obama and his team got great news about the economic status of the average worker. Incomes are up a whopping 5.2 percent between 2014 ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I watched a black professional football player wax passionately in his complaint that, it isn’t as bad today as when his “mamma” was born in 1955, but blacks today are still fighting for equality. The ESPN program hosts solemnly nodded their heads in agreement. The depth of ignorance the petulant ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) With less than seven weeks to go before one of the most historic elections in our nation’s history, and when the GOP needs all the help it can get reaching Black voters, the Republican National Committee (RNC) is suing me, a Black Republican, over an event that I created. I ...