(ThyBlackMan.com) Here’s the selected checklist of black organizations, groups and individuals GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump has flatly refused to speak to, reach out to or even acknowledge exist. They include: The NAACP, the National Urban League, The National Association of Black Journalists, Black Pastoral groups, and a host of Black ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The 2016 Democrats are trying to distance themselves as far away from the racially motivated criminal justice policies that they co-signed on with The Republicans in the 1990s that disproportionately affects particularly black men in inner city neighborhoods across the country. America incarcerates more of its citizens than any other ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) It looks increasingly likely that Hillary Clinton, a self-described “progressive who likes to get things done,” will have her chance starting next January. But how much that’s progressive will she actually be able to get done? The Senate may flip to the Democrats but there’s almost no way Democrats ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) You may have heard about drones for many reasons. It’s hard to describe a drone perfectly, but the small, flying vehicles are used for a number of reasons. You may have heard about delivery drones, or the scarier stories of military drones. However, it seems some organizations have found a ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) There is an erroneous perception that black men are more criminal than non-blacks. Why is that? Statistics are generally produced seemingly validating a consensus that African Americans are more prone to violence and criminal activities, however, stats can be used to paint any picture we so desire surreptitiously sweeping ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Protestations regarding the value of Black Lives have become increasingly common in the public dialogue. The simple phrase, “Black Lives Matter,” has generated praise from that segment of society that has suffered countless race-based indignities and condemned by those who, in my opinion, are too blind or obstinate to ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Which candidate should progressives support in 2016? It depends a bit on your priorities. If you care more about socialized medicine than you do about peace, honesty, and civil liberties, vote for Hillary. The rest of this essay is not for you. If you long to bring back the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Hillary Clinton is doing what Democrats should have been doing all along and that’s looking and sounding and, if given the chance, acting like FDR. This means going big, big, big and fully using government to radically ramp up new programs and initiatives to tackle everything from the nation’s ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The Democrats have always found a way to influence black voters since Roosevelt got the 71 percent of the black vote for president in 1936; since Harry Truman pulled 77 percent of the black vote in 1948 because he had ordered desegregating of the armed services and an executive order ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Suffering then is not something that happens to us in such a way that we have no control over it. Suffering is not something that we must endure in order to be worthwhile. In fact, it is our own controllable reaction to experiences which determines how those experiences will affect ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) On Wednesday, the U.S. Department of Justice issued a scathing report on the state of the Baltimore City Police Department (BPD) as a part of its civil rights investigation following the death of Freddie Gray. The press release about the report stated, “The Justice Department announced today that it found ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The release by Wikileaks of a trove of emails from high-ranking Democratic Party officials has confirmed what many Americans – both progressive and conservative – have suspected throughout this election cycle: that the Democratic National Committee (DNC) actively conspired against Bernie Sanders in an attempt to ensure the nomination for ...