(ThyBlackMan.com) The awful transformation of Bernie Sanders has been absolutely breath stopping to see. Sanders has gone from a charming, engaging, provoking, and supremely principled Democratic presidential candidate to a scheming, conniving, devious, supremely unprincipled Democratic presidential contender. In quick succession, Sen. Bernie Sanders has been accused of being a ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Donald Trump’s victories in the Republican primaries may make him seem like a sure winner. But those victories have been achieved by receiving either somewhat less than 40 percent of the votes or somewhat more than 40 percent, but never a majority. The fragmenting of the Republican vote among ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Slave to the job. Told what you will earn, what to wear, when to eat, when to arrive, when to leave and what to do. Slave to the church, not to God. Told what to think, what to believe, how to worship, what God said and what you should ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) As I continue my swing through Eastern Europe, I had every intention of writing about my conversations with the all the political and business leaders that I was spending time with. I wanted to write about how the U.S. is viewed by those in Eastern Europe and the relevance ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) With the extraordinary Cruz vs Trump battle for the GOP presidential nomination sucking up all of the political oxygen, it is easy to miss that awesome conservative retired Air Force Col Rob Maness is running for the U.S. Senate in Louisiana. Folks, please allow me to cut to the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The carnage, genocide, poverty, and famine on the supposedly poorest continent on the Earth was derived from her richness in natural resources. For more than 3,000 years, Africa has been stripped of her intellectual properties, natural resources and physical labor. The colonial education system has done an ingenious job, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin once purportedly said about Hitler that, “He didn’t know when to stop.” That can be said of Trump. In mid-March Trump looked unstoppable. Florida, Louisiana, Arizona had all fallen to him, more and more pledged delegates were piling up by the day in his columns, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “I ask again” he said so defiantly, “shall Negro sharecroppers from Mississippi be sent to shoot down brown-skinned peasants in Vietnam…to serve the interests of those who oppose Negro liberation at home and colonial freedom abroad?” – Paul Robeson Preceding Malcolm X or MLK in the valiant struggle for ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) American Blacks must cultivate an entrepreneurial spirit independent of any president in the White House. – Armstrong Williams There is no getting around certain troubling and enduring implications of Black-White differences in America. Is there any question that there are meaningful differences between the races? The typical White household ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I remember a line from Gil Scott-Heron, whom I often quote in my articles. In his rendering called “The Bicentennial Blues,” he was discussing the Nixon administration and this nation’s penchant for getting in on the economic action of other nations. He called Henry Kissinger the “International Godfather of ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In a recent interview with Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump, CNN’s Jake Tapper said, “I would just ask, as a fellow American, if you could consider whether or not dialing down the temperature — trying to bring down the temperature — might be a healthier thing both for your ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In the March 7th 2016 edition of the Boston Review in the article, “Black Study, Black Struggle” Robin Kelley initiated a discussion of the state and future course of Black Studies. Here are excerpts from the piece and responses to it. “In the fall of 2015, college campuses were ...