(ThyBlackMan.com) It’s one thing to disagree with the decision to go to war in Iraq. That, believe it or not, was once a minority view. According to a Gallup poll taken in March 2003, the night after the Iraq war began, 76 percent supported President George W. Bush’s decision. Two months after ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Recently, retired Lt. Col Ralph Peters and Stacey Dash, both contributors on Fox News shows, blatantly disrespected President Barack Obama on different news shows on national television. Lt. Col. Peters called our president a “total p*sy,” and actress Stacey Dash blurted “our president doesn’t give a sht about terrorism.” ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) GOP leaders led by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell predictably wasted no time in swearing that anyone who President Obama named to replace the late Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia had zero chance of being confirmed. McConnell saw no contradiction in the fact that he had no trouble voting ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Now that we have gotten the first two political anomalies out of the way en route to electing a new president – mostly White Iowa and New Hampshire – the primaries and caucuses are moving to states that are more representative of a diverse America and the outcomes will ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) You may like Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders, but neither of them represent the solid core moral values of the mature African American community. The reason you do not see that, if you don’t, is because you have not done your homework. Like most African Americans, you have probably ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Amid the petty bickering, loud rhetoric and sordid attack ads in this year’s primary election campaigns, the death of a giant — Justice Antonin Scalia — suddenly overshadows all of that. The vacancy created on the Supreme Court makes painfully clear the huge stakes involved when we choose a ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders and rival Hillary Clinton trek to a meeting with the Reverend Al Sharpton for two reasons. The first is Sharpton himself. President Obama paid absolutely no heed to the by now ritualistic anti-Sharpton name calling by the assorted menagerie of right wing talk show ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) This past weekend I had the chance to be part of a historic event in Washington, DC. Black Americans for a Better Future (BAFBF) hosted their fourth annual Black Republican Trailblazer Awards Luncheon at the Willard Intercontinental Hotel. We had a packed house for both the Saturday evening VIP ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I listen to the news about the 2016 Presidential election religiously. What amazes me is that so many have just discovered that Blacks and Latinos will play such a decisive role in the 2016 election. Didn’t we do that in 2008, 2012 and many other elections? Okay, so Blacks ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) George Orwell said, “But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.” Gore Vidal elaborated on that insight, saying, “As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate.” And John Milton predicted, “When language in common use in any country ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) When I first heard that the Congressional Black Caucus had endorsed Hillary Clinton, I couldn’t believe my ears. And yes, I said the Congressional Black Caucus. The debate over whether or not every member of the caucus agreed with the PAC’s endorsement of Hillary Clinton is nothing but a political ploy. It ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) A funny thing happened to me on my way to writing this blog. Two stories came out that were so unbelievably outrageous, ridiculous, and absurd that I had to say something: Now that Republican Governor Rick Snyder has succeeded in poisoning the water supply for Flint MI., Republican presidential ...