(ThyBlackMan.com) I put down a passion project to write about Alton Sterling. Writing is important when it documents the African diaspora for the next generation. Our people will perish from the lack of knowledge we fail to record. I am the writer who concentrates on the condition of the present ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Presumptive GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump made dubious poll history recently. In a Quinnipiac Poll, he got exactly 1 percent of black voter support. The high bar of black vote support for most GOP presidential candidates in most elections is a mid to high single digit total. 2008 presidential ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The plutocracy has decided not to indict Hillary Clinton – and Donald Trump predicted it. So Hillary is still a liability to the Democratic party. The Republicans are going to have a field day with this fiasco. They’re going to bring up former President Bill Clinton’s “impromptu” meeting with ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) For over a hundred and twenty years the Statue of Liberty has greeted immigrants to these shores with open arms and the promise of the kind of freedom that they had never known. As a result, that towering, stately, and majestic lady has come to represent the quintessential symbol ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Every 4th of July most Americans celebrate Independence Day. Yet in 1776 clearly our people as African Americans were not independent, but rather slaves for years to come. That brings up the question of whether or not African Americans should celebrate the 4th of July. Many of our people ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) GOP Presidential contender Donald Trump was so happy he couldn’t jump high enough when Bill Clinton met briefly with Attorney General Loretta Lynch. This supposedly was irrefutable proof that Lynch, and by extension President Obama, and Hillary Clinton, were in cahoots to cook the books on the FBI and ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Hillary Clinton, the presumptive Democratic Party nominee for president, is now sorting out her pick for her running mate and potential vice president. She’s launched the “search,” the traditional and often irritating public surfacing of various possibilities, paying respect to different constituencies and different personalities, before settling on a ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “All sizzle and no steak” is a long-standing American idiom denoting someone who is full of style and flash, but lacks substance. But what about the opposite, “All steak and no sizzle”? Well, that might be OK; at least you’re getting a steak. But Hillary Clinton’s campaign of late ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The more I see the statistics relating to the so-called Black Economy and Black Buying Power, the more desperate my message becomes and the more insulted I feel. How can we get so excited about having an annual aggregate income of more than $1 trillion while we are at ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The NY Times reported, “Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch plans to announce on Friday that she will accept whatever recommendation career prosecutors and the F.B.I. director make about whether to bring charges related to Hillary Clinton’s personal email server, a Justice Department official said. Her decision removes the possibility ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The Supreme Court’s decision, striking down the Texas abortion law signed by Governor Rick Perry in 2013, is but the latest example of the lost, confused, sick nation we have become. In the words of the late Justice Antonin Scalia, “A country I do not recognize.” The Court, in ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) One of life’s enduring mysteries is why the left — against overwhelming evidence to the contrary — insists on more taxation, more government spending and more government control over the private sector. Europe’s socialism has, over the last several decades, generated few private sector jobs and lags in growth ...