(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 ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) More than a couple of million folks have responded to the words spoken by Jesse Williams, which points out the fact that many Black people are mesmerized by words that excite us and stimulate our emotions. Rather than initiating practical and appropriate actions as a result of words that ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I’ve been researching the Clintons for over 20 years, every since they conned the Black community into giving them our devotion (“The first Black President”), blood, sweat, and tears, and then cut our throats as soon as they set foot in the White House. . Many journalists consider me an expert ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In the space of a few days Baltimore Police Lieutenant Brian Rice is scheduled for trial in the death of Freddie Gray and the Justice Department announced that it will conduct a probe into the police shooting of Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge, La. Two cities, two deaths, two ...
(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 ...