(ThyBlackMan.com) If there’s one thing that has become a staple of presidential campaigns over the decades, it’s the campaign theme song. These have become essential for politicians in recent years, but actually the history of the campaign song goes back a lot further, and songs have been playing a role ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) It happens every year. Yard signs infiltrate our neighborhoods and litter our streets, placed by campaign operatives, hoping you not only familiarize yourself with their respective political candidate, but translate that familiarity into a cast vote for that candidate. Familiarity tends to work, which is why it’s no secret ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I awoke to a story that Presidential candidate Donald Trump was now proposing that the families of terrorists should be killed. As best as I can tell, his rationale is that if any terrorists know that their families will be killed, they are less likely to be terrorists. The ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) There’s no shortage of chatter about GOP Presidential contender Donald Trump campaigning. But almost nothing has been said about how a “President” Trump would actually govern. While there’s no consensus that he can win the GOP nomination let alone the White House, there is a consensus that he has ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) If the officers allegedly responsible for the death of Freddie Gray are acquitted, what will occur? The oppressed and disenfranchised of Baltimore may engage in social disturbances and meaningless destruction of property. What will these rebellious acts change? Will protest change Baltimore’s vicious and corrupt police force into one ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) This week we celebrate Christmas — the mass celebrating the birth of Jesus the Christ — the Messenger. Across a country shaken by terrorism, the stores are festooned with lights, music fills the air and, despite the dismal realities of most, there is talk of good cheer. As I ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “This is my commandment, that you love one another, just as I have loved you.” (John 15:12-13) These words of Jesus represent the true essence of Christmas and this special season. This is the time of year to wish for God’s blessing in the upcoming year. But it is also a time ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Can a woman become a great president? Anyone who can’t answer the above question in the affirmative couldn’t have been raised in the Black community. As ashamed as I am to have to admit it, it should be clear to anyone with eyeballs that the African American culture is ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Donald Trump is bad news. If the Republican Party selects Donald Trump as their nominee for the president of these United States of America, in my humble opinion, he will not become the 45th president. He does not have the experience, the temperament, the respect for all people, the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Isn’t it time to acknowledge the contribution Donald Trump has made to American, and indeed, world history? That is that for all the momentous progress of the last few decades, it’s still possible for a crude, racist demagogue to capture the hearts and minds of a significant segment of ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I watched the final Republican debates of 2015 in shock and awe! It’s recognized, especially when appealing to the party’s base, that most of the positions of the candidates are more akin to throwing raw meat to wild animals than to substantive discussion of policies of the respective candidates. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The dictionary defines a phobia as “an abnormal or irrational fear of a specific thing…” Therefore, a phobia is a mental illness. I am fed up with the Left being allowed to decree that everyone repulsed by two men kissing on national TV is mentally ill; abnormal and irrational ...