(ThyBlackMan.com) When my late grandmother was a girl in rural Arkansas, no one had a job. Everyone old enough to walk and carry a pail worked from dawn to dusk. Work was endless, cruel and utterly universal, but a “job” in term of formal employment for wages, was rare. Those ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allen Poe; nor am I one of you Hollywood-movie ectoplasms. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me. Ralph Ellison, The Invisible Man Thank Goodness, West Point officials have declined ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) We must frankly face the fact that the front runners in both political parties represent a new low, at a time of domestic polarization and unprecedented nuclear dangers internationally. This year’s general election will offer a choice between a thoroughly corrupt liar and an utterly irresponsible egomaniac. The Republican ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The prototypical Donald Trump backer is a poorly educated, slob of a blue collar white male worker or farmer in the backwoods of the Deep South or Midwest who alternately fears and loathes Blacks, Hispanics, gays, liberals of all stripes, Obama, and big government. This is a dangerous, and ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Blacks gave Obama 96 percent of their votes in 2008 and 94 percent of their votes in 2012. We, by far, are the most loyal voting block for Obama in the entire U.S. According to the Pew Research Center, for the 2012 presidential election turnout by race was: 72 ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Barack Obama and Loretta Lynch value transgender lives more than they value black lives. That’s become clear. The U.S. Justice Department and Department of Education, based on a decree from Obama, released a joint letter online to school systems around the nation, threatening them to let transgenders use the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I wrote the article below in October of 2007 when Hillary Clinton was running against the, then, Senator Barack Obama – and BEFORE I had thoroughly researched Bill Clinton’s political history and how he had signed the most draconian crime bill in the history of the United States and created the prison industrial complex that ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) For the umpteenth time, Donald Trump is no conservative. He is an economic populist. When asked to name the top three functions of government, he said national security, health care and education. Two of the three named “duties” one does not find in Article I, Section 8 of the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) It’s human nature to develop methods of personal survival or providing for self-protection. They’re not the same for everyone, but many are common. Among those known to me, one predictable survival standard is that one should believe that a person will attempt to do that which she or he ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The recent political climate in the U.S. has become absolutely polarizing, on issues ranging from immigration to gun control to women’s health. A huge factor in these fierce political debates is the candidate’s’ use of religion to fuel their arguments. For African Americans, this along with how the candidates ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Those who have followed my writings know that I have been and will continue to be very critical of my Republican Party over the lack of real engagement with the Black community. I am now beginning to question whether there is room for Blacks in this Republican Party. The ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Whenever possible, one should think about the Republican Party in relation to its first successful leader, Abraham Lincoln. Like many of his quotes that possess a haunting, enduring, quality, one of my favorites so aptly applies to the 2016 Republican nomination race that it deserves repeating: “Elections belong to ...