(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 ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) It took a Muslim couple’s killing spree of Americans in San Bernardino, California, the worst terrorist attack since 9/11, for the New York Times to conclude America has a “gun epidemic.” America does have a gun problem. But it’s not a legal-gun-owner/mass-murder crisis. It’s an illegal-gun/black-children epidemic. Guns in the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) FBI official David Bowdich issued this statement immediately after the mass killing in San Bernardino by alleged shooters Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik, “It would be irresponsible and premature for me to call this terrorism. The FBI defines terrorism very specifically, and that is the big question for ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) From Sandy Hook to Columbine, Ferguson to the Boston Bombing, San Bernardino to 911, are these incidents happening as they have been reported? Or are they at least partially “FALSE FLAGS”? Are parts of these tragedies scripted, contrived and strategically implemented by the powers that be in order to ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) When acclaimed director, actor, producer, Spike Lee broke onto the Hollywood scene in the 1980s; he truly had to fight the power. Hollywood was not ready for a young, brash, provocative filmmaker like Lee. He burst on the scene with provocative movies like She’s Gotta Have It, School Daze ...
(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 ...