(ThyBlackMan.com) Last week President Obama stood before the Congressional Black Caucus and gave his final speech as the acting Commander-in-Chief. The tone was very relaxed. At times it was playful. He was on friendly territory, a familiar neighborhood where you know everyone by their first names. It was like he walked ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “In the shadow of the Jefferson Memorial, the Lincoln Memorial, the King Memorial, and the front yard of the Washington Monument, like a phoenix, our museum will rise…Believe me, if we can build a museum…there’s nothing that you can’t do. There’s nothing you can’t reach. There’s nothing you can’t teach, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The day after Tulsa County District Attorney Steve Kunzweiler announced first degree manslaughter charges would be filed against Tulsa officer Betty Shelby for gunning down distressed motorist Terence Crutcher, the Los Angeles Urban Policy Roundtable and other civil rights organizations held a press conference. They announced that they were calling ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) When you look at how this election cycle is unfolding at the national level and count losers and winners, African Americans (AA) would have to rank as the biggest losers. You ask, how do you draw that conclusion? Here is how. Even with 1) an African American president sitting in ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Where are the black preachers in the wake of days of lawless anarchy in Charlotte, North Carolina? Most are either missing in action, or worse – siding with the rioters. Charlotte-Mecklenburg police repeatedly told 43-year-old Keith Lamont Scott to drop his gun before they shot and killed him. But false ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Billionaire George Soros generally does not hide the fact that he uses the considerable funds at his disposal to support his extremist, leftist ideals. So when he does hide something, it should raise some serious questions. A series of leaked documents recently revealed that Soros’ philanthropy network, the Open Society ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Hi Folks. These are a few thoughts from the road. Mary and I are driving from our home in Florida up to visit her family in West Virginia and my family in Maryland. On Saturday, Pumphrey, the community I grew up in is having an event honoring my 88 year ...
(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 ...