(ThyBlackMan.com) So much to talk about. So little time. Item # 1. Since 2004-spanning the Richard M. Daley and Rahm Emmanuel administrations- the Chicago Tribune reports that the city of Chicago has paid out a half billion dollars for police misconduct! Chicago is closing schools, laying off teachers, and cutting back services, but has ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The political left has been trying to run other people’s lives for centuries. So we should not be surprised to see the Obama administration now trying to force neighborhoods across America to have the mix of people the government wants them to have. There are not enough poor people ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The third Democratic presidential candidate’s debate got a distant second ranking in headline news to the very public warfare between Democratic presidential contender Bernie Sanders and the Democratic National Committee. The charges and countercharges between Sanders and the DNC over access to voter data were bad enough. But it ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Our seemingly endless conversations about what Black people “need to have” and “need to do” are nothing short of astounding—and confounding as well. Some of our people call radio talk shows and decry, lament, and complain about the lack of resources among Black folks. Others ask “how to” and ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In November 2016 the Unites States will embark upon another voting season. A time, whereby the citizens of this country come together to decide on the representation that will best lead America into her next phase. The right to vote and the expectation of that vote has been a ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Leaders provide vision. They help people understand where they are, how they got there and what they must do to go forward. They help calm nerves and strengthen courage. They are steady in times of trouble, inspiring in times of demoralization. Donald Trump’s reaction to the terrorist acts in ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) At times I wonder if some Southern Whites understand the Confederate battle flag issue outside of themselves. We have heard the issue of this flag hashed and rehashed quite a bit this year due to the national social unrest. The basic argument given regarding the flag is that it ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Two Hispanics, a diminutive Libertarian and a Donald loomed large in the fifth and thankfully, last Republican debate of 2015. The amigo Senators Rubio and Cruz stole the night “insulting” each other in what can only be described as a full-on duel between the sole Hispanics running. This was ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) There is no question about it, the above title of this piece is correct; there is just no other way to put it. If we as African Americans (AA) do not become more attentive to economic decisions made in Washington, D.C., and do something about these decisions, we have ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In 1963, Malcolm X declared that John F. Kennedy’s assassination was an example of “chickens coming home to roost.” He argued that the U.S. climate of bigotry and state violence was to blame for his death. Taken out of context, his comments were interpreted by some as endorsing Kennedy’s ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Neo-colonialism, a term the first leader of an independent Ghana Kwame Nkrumah coined, refers to the indirect ruling of former colonies by their colonizer. These dependent, pseudo-independent countries were governed by “Africans” whose purpose was not the development of Africa but the maintenance of the power and profits of ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Symbols play a very important role in our society, because uniforms, badges, robs and such help us to identify the various roles that people play to hold our society together. That’s why it is so important that people who are given symbols of authority represent those symbols well, and ...