(ThyBlackMan.com) Once again, Republican presidential candidates are proving that they are either truly colorblind or just blind to people of color. What is it that all these declared Republican presidential candidates all have in common: Jeb Bush, Ben Carson, Lindsey Graham, Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, Carly Fiorina, Mike Huckabee, George ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “Now there are some ‘practical’ things we can do. We begin the process of building a greater economic base. And at the same time, we are putting pressure where it really hurts. I ask you to follow through here.” MLK Those words were spoken by Martin Luther King the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The current racial struggles of African Americans cannot be dismissed by a discussion about guns. Nor can this struggle be dismissed with the removal of confederate flags from public property as many in the public sector seen to feel. Starting points, yes; dismissal, no. If the deaths of those ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) This past Friday afternoon, President Obama flew to Charleston, South Carolina to eulogize the Reverend Clementa Pinckney – the South Carolina state senator and pastor who was one of nine people shot and killed at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston last week. The president sounded much more ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Where are the Black Churches, and where are all of the millions of dollars in tithes they’re collecting every Sunday going? Black preachers do a great job of giving inspirational speeches, and telling us to “forgive, forget, and put all of the atrocities committed against us in God’s Hands,” ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) On Thursday morning, the United States Supreme Court ruled 6-3 in favor of the Affordable Care Act – or Obamacare, if you prefer. King v. Burwell brought very high stakes for the Obama Administration, the Democrats, the Republicans, and the millions of Americans whose healthcare coverage is subsidized. King ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I was a very poor 16-year-old so, as you can imagine, having a car was out of the question. Wherever I needed to go, I walked — which was not always pleasant on a Florida summer day. It was on one of those hot days, while walking to the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Rachel A. Dolezal, the recently resigned president of the Spokane, Washington, office of the NAACP, has come under a bit of controversy. Both of her parents are white, but for eight years, Dolezal claimed that she was black. In addition to her role as president of an NAACP chapter, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Rev. Clementa Pinckney and his fellow congregants of Charleston’s Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C. gathered as usual in the historic edifice June 17 for their Wednesday evening prayer service. They came, as always, to refresh their religious faith, to testify and bear witness to the importance ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In Manchester, one of Great Britain’s largest cities, only 209 of the 6,700 police officers carry guns. These officers are bound by tight restrictions, Sir Peter Fahy, chief of the Greater Manchester Police, told the Washington Post recently. Shooting at moving vehicles, at suspects fleeing a scene or at those ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) There are no sure things in politics, but Hillary Clinton is the closest thing to a sure thing to become the Democrats’ candidate for president in 2016. This is one of the painful but inescapable signs of our time. There is nothing in her history that would qualify her ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Of February 18, 2009, then U.S. Attorney General, Eric Holder gave a Black History Month speech to the employees at the Department of Justice. He said in part, “Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial we have always been and ...