(ThyBlackMan.com) If Micah Xavier Johnson’s goal was to support people in Dallas who were protesting the fatal police shootings of Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge, La. and Philando Castile in Falcon Heights, Minn., he failed miserably. Not only did he not advance the cause by killing five law enforcement officers, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Even in this age of runaway emotions, there are still some people who want to know the facts. Nowhere are facts more important, or more lacking, than in what has been aptly called “The War on Cops,” the title of a devastating new book by Heather Mac Donald. Few, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) President Barack Obama and his first attorney general Eric Holder called for an honest conversation about race. Holder even called us “a nation of cowards” because we were unwilling to have a “national conversation” about race. The truth of the matter is there’s been more than a half-century of ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) ABC News reports that “A majority of Americans disapprove of the FBI’s recommendation not to charge Hillary Clinton with a crime over her handling of email while secretary of state, and a similar number in a new ABC News/Washington Post poll say the issue leaves them worried about how ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) What happens when a nation has no conscience? Even as the country is grappling with the fact that two Black men were killed by White police officers within 48 hours of each other, so many people in positions of power have said little, if anything. As some were trying ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In the political season, tensions are often high and conversations can be heated or even non-existent. But let’s consider the impact on your current workplace, your community, neighborhood, or wherever you find yourself stuck in a sticky situation where politics come up. Chances are in any of these situations, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Lorenzo Collins, Michael Carpenter, Roger Owensby Jr. Timothy Thomas, Amadou Diallo, Patrick Dorismond, Kenneth Walker, Sean Bell, Timothy Russell, Kimani Gray, Ezzell Ford, John Crawford, Tamir Rice, Oscar Grant, Eric Garner, Kajieme Powell, Malissa Williams, Vonderitt Myers, Dante Parker, Michael Brown, Tyisha Miller, Trayvon Martin, Dontre Hamilton, Tony Robinon, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) No matter who wins the presidential election this November, a loathsome man will be moving into the White House. Donald J. Trump, the presumed GOP nominee, is “an ignorant, dishonest, misogynistic, philandering, isolationist blowhard,” according to a prominent Republican donor who pledged he won’t give his party’s nominee any ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) President Obama announced that he would cut short his state visit to Spain to attend an interfaith service for the 5 slain Dallas police officers and give aid and comfort to their families. This is the right thing to do. The slaying of the officers was just as Obama ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The recent events of the unjustifiable police shootings of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, the shootings and killings of the Dallas police officers though could be attributed to growing pains of a young republic, are nonetheless, reprehensible and appalling. The shootings of Sterling and Castile isn’t an aberration but ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Before the European invaders (settlers and colonists) came to this country, they were not called “white“. Before they bought, abducted and subjugated the Africans onto this land, the Africans were NOT called “black“. The Africans were known by tribe, by family and by geographic area (Igbo, Nigerians etc.). Then ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Well, it appears to be the week of superficiality. On Tuesday, FBI director James Comey announced at a press conference that he would not recommend an indictment against Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton relating to her private email server scandal. According to Comey, Clinton (who also features prominently in ...