(ThyBlackMan.com) Could Hillary lose? If she were running against a Republican whom the Party’s grandees and the capitalists behind them liked, someone like Mitt Romney, the answer would be Yes. After eight years of President Drone, the Republican would have a clear advantage. It wouldn’t even matter if that Republican ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) This has been a negative political season. It’s time to stop the insults. Let’s stop the negative branding. Let’s stop the negativity and name-calling and get on with a real debate about the real issues facing the American people and our future. The stakes are high. People are looking for ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Again state legislatures have approved new rules to prevent election fraud. Again federal courts have struck the laws down. Much of America’s political and legal establishment is resolutely opposed to election integrity. It makes you wonder what they believe democracy is all about. Obviously, there is no excuse for ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The same clueless nitwits who, with no evidence, cried “Bush lied, people died!” are now ignoring overwhelming evidence of Hillary Clinton’s violation of the Espionage Act and how that behavior imperiled national security. In George W. Bush’s case, there is zero evidence of a “lie.” In Clinton’s case, as ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “At the Bottom of Politics … Lies Economics” Booker T. Washington spoke those words in his best effort to show us what is really happening in this country; he tried to convince us to stay focused on the money-side of things, and he admonished us not to immerse ourselves ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Bernie Sanders supporters are flocking to Jill Stein, the presumptive Green Party presidential candidate, with donations to her campaignexploding nearly 1000% after he endorsed Hillary Clinton. Jill Stein salutes Sanders for the progressive populist movement he began and says it is up to her to carry the baton. Can ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Dear Senator Sanders, Last summer you said you would not run as a third party candidate if you did not win the Democratic nomination. You said, “the reason for that is I do not want to be responsible for electing some right-wing Republican to be president of the United ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The urgent need for Former Rwandan Refugees Living in Zambia to acquire Rwandan Passports. Are Rwandan Refugees living in Zambia permitted to live there without proper documentation? Was their original UN Refugee status granted legalistically? If not, What must be done by all the parties affected/concerned “stakeholders”? It is highly ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Against the wishes of her New York Democratic constituents, Hillary Clinton voted with Senate Republicans to invade Iraq. (It was a pivotal vote. Without Democratic support, George W. Bush’s request for this war of aggression would have failed.) Humayun Khan, 27, was an army captain who got killed during that ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Donald Trump’s presidential campaign rhetoric is, by most accounts, “populist, ” but that’s a broad description. Trump takes his “populism” from a particular historical tradition — one with a baleful history in American politics. What is populism, and what’s the problem with Donald Trump’s version of it? Simplified, populism is ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Two large questions loom on the question of race in America. One, after almost eight years of a black man as president of the United States, why does the country remain so deeply racially divided? Two, why, after more then a half-century since the passage of the Civil Rights Act ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Michelle Obama gave a magnificent speech during the Democratic National Convention on July 25, as the first lady reflected on her family’s nearly eight years as residents of the White House, as its first African-American inhabitants. “I wake up every morning in a house that was built by slaves,” Mrs. ...