(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 ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) This month, President Barack Obama‘s defense secretary, Ashton Carter, decreed that there will be 220,000 combat military jobs offered to women — including in Army special operations forces and the Navy SEALs. He said, “They’ll be allowed to drive tanks, fire mortars and lead infantry soldiers into combat … ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The latest poll on the GOP presidential candidate’s derby now has Texas Senator Ted Cruz steaming past prior front-runner Donald Trump in the crucial first out the box Iowa primary February 1. The poll result tells much about why Cruz is far more dangerous than Trump. But there’s more, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) It is an irony and tragedy of history that as we come into this season of celebration of Christmas and Kwanzaa and of calling for peace and security and bringing and sharing good in the world, unfortunately, we still lack the justice necessary for peace and sadly, good and ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) My 87 year old black dad is a baby conservative. After several years of me printing out my articles and mailing them to him, Dad finally realized his loyalty to Democrats was not only misguided, but was actually destructive to blacks. Thus, I have become Dad’s Conservatism coach. He ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) When asked why President Barack Obama insisted on pursuing a nuclear deal with Iran, former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates said: “I think that the pursuit of the agreement is based on the President’s hope that over a 10-year period with the sanctions being lifted that the Iranians will ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In predictable fashion, Democrats blamed Muslim couple Syed Faroook and his wife Tasheen Malik’s terrorist rampage on loose gun laws. California has some of the nation’s strictest gun laws. The couple began purchasing guns and stockpiling thousands of rounds of ammunition three years ago – legally. The shooting was a failure ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Two things happened within 24 hours of each other that almost certainly caused GOP leaders even more nervous anxiety over GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump. One was his very Trump like pronouncement that all Muslims should be banned from the country. This roused the furor of nearly everyone who ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) When the President of the United States asks the television networks to set aside time for him to broadcast a speech from the Oval Office, we can usually expect that he has something new to say. But President Obama’s speech Sunday night was just a rehash of what he ...