(ThyBlackMan.com) The other day I thought of Wenjian Liu and Rafael Ramos. Many of you have probably forgotten who they are. Most likely, a majority have never heard of them. Liu and Ramos are two NYPD police officers assassinated in their police car late last year; shot in the head ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In the wake of the San Bernardino,, California massacre which killed 14 people and injured 21 more and a young Islamic student who made a clock, to name a few, Islamaphobia is growing – and fast. Islamic women are being taken off commercial air planes. Trump speaks of gathering ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Having served the NAACP for ten years in several capacities, including branch president, and having donated money to its causes, I take no pleasure in writing this exposé. But it is our responsibility to clean up our own organizations. For example, President Cornell Brooks sends missives on a regular ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) There is no spinning the killing of Laquan McDonald by Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke. A 17-year old black boy appears to have been savagely murdered by a white police officer in October 2014 for no apparent probable cause or reason – other than Van Dyke was a bad cop. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Most Americans have embraced a philosophy of “go-along-to get-along,” and that’s a philosophy that has never served minorities, or the working class, well. It’s a philosophy that only serves to maintain the status quo. So if you’re at the bottom of the ladder, not being paid a living wage, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Right now there is a massive cover up going on in the city of Chicago involving the highest levels of local, state and federal government. The Black city councilpersons agreed to a five million dollar payout to Laquan’s family even before they filed a lawsuit. Part of the agreement in ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Front running GOP presidential contender Donald Trump got more than the “love” he said he saw in the room at his mid-Manhattan offices where he met with the pack of black ministers. He had banks of TV cameras and reporters recording his every move and word. He got the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Although there is a sense that Donald Trump’s unusual and outlandish run for the presidency is the first ever of its kind, this is not entirely true. Californians, such as myself, remember how Arnold Schwarzenegger captured the governorship of California in 2003, in a campaign remarkably similar to Donald ...
(ThyBLackMan.com) If Donald Trump’s such a racist candidate appealing to “white resentment,” why is he getting black support? From day one of his campaign announcement both liberal and conservative media outlets have been obsessed with ridiculing and dismissing the Republican presidential candidate. But now that Trump’s become the GOP frontrunner, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Conventional wisdom says don’t waste your time trying to get the Black vote. Conventional wisdom says don’t hire Black staffers. Conventional wisdom says don’t be impolitic and non-politically correct. Conventional wisdom says don’t tell the American people what you really believe on a myriad of issues; tell them what ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The two words that were glaringly missing in the reams of news clips, press reports, and news features on alleged Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood Clinic killer, Robert Lewis Dear were “domestic” and “terrorist.” His target, the clinic, and his victims were deliberately and calculatedly chosen. Attorney General Loretta Lynch ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) To you remaining black members of my family who take issue with me being an outspoken black conservative Republican, I ask you ponder the following. Comedian Arsenio Hall was known for his comedic bit, “Things That Make You Go Hmmm…” Well, here are a few facts regarding self proclaimed ...