(ThyBlackMan.com) In recent years, a small but growing number of people have advocated a convention of states to propose amendments to the Constitution of the United States. The reaction to the proposal has been hostile, out of all proportion to either the originality or the danger of such a convention. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) It’s not surprising that no one will be punished for the death of Tamir Rice. Since the youngster’s killing the police authorities, the Prosecutor, and the Mayor have refused to do anything except look for ways to sweep it away in hopes that it will be forgotten, just like ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Last week I was reflecting on how to better help the Republican Party get more Blacks engaged in the party and ended up taking a mental stroll down memory lane. In my freshman year in college at Oral Roberts University, my freshman textbook for my English class was Language ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) A few years ago, BET had a commentary titled “Where Are the Grocery Stores in Black Neighborhoods?” One wonders whether anyone thinks that the absence of supermarkets in predominantly black neighborhoods means that white merchants do not like dollars coming out of black hands. Racial discrimination cannot explain the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Those who’ve wondered how, after the Civil War abolished slavery, America became – while a democracy in rhetorical terms – in reality an apartheid state should be paying close attention to the machinations of the Republican Party and the conservative movement. They’ve been providing example after example of how ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Here’s a horrific what if in the months after November 9, 2016. That’s the day after the presidential election and the winner is declared. The nomination and confirmation of one, two, maybe even three more Antonin Scalias and Clarence Thomas’s to the Supreme Court. The quick repeal of the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Let’s get right to the point. Do not be distracted by the rhetoric that gun violence is overtaking this country. This country, ironically, was conceived in violence brought about by Caucasian people fleeing Europe, killing native Americans and enslaving Africans for hundreds of years. Nobody said there was a ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Around 2009, a Nevadan Christian woman state legislator was fed up. She was fed up with “politics as usual” and the “good old boy system.” But most of all, she was disgusted with the lack of “courage” in congress. After much prayer, Conservative Republican Sharron Angle stepped forward to ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Here’s to the strong African American voices that changed the course of history. From those who took a brave and dedicated stance against slavery to our first African American president, the following names are some of the influential African Americans in U.S. history. Because of these individuals, all Americans ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Today in this country African Americans want to blame everyone else for our problems instead of simply looking in the mirror. We want to blame the police for the very thing we do to each other on a much larger scale every week. We want to blame the school ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Those who have been marveling at Donald Trump’s political showmanship were given a reminder of who is the top showman of them all, when President Barack Obama went on television to make a pitch for his unilateral actions to restrict gun sales and make a more general case for ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The 2016 Republican Nomination race, simplistically cast as a competition between “Establishment RINOs” and the “True Conservative” base, illustrates a destructive psychosis currently infecting the GOP. Paranoid voices on the right insist that the party is under siege by a liberal cabal of kamikaze Republicans–RINOs, The Establishment. Stemming from ...