(ThyBlackMan.com) The United States insists it cannot afford housing, jobs, or care. Yet it can always afford cages. Immigration enforcement is not a response to crisis; it is a budgetary preference. Billions are reliably available to detain, transport, and deport people, even as Black communities are told to be patient, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) From pioneering navigation to America in 1492, to enduring and overcoming the inhumanity of slavery, to the Reconstruction Era where we succeeded in helping with the abolition of slavery while securing our rights as citizens, to the Jim Crow Era where we founded historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Shortly before Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated, a Harris Poll found that 75% of Americans disapproved of him. Yes, three out of four. White Americans’ disgust with King was driven by his unflinching commitment to racial equality and his staunch opposition to the Vietnam War. He spoke of ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) White backlash in America is nothing new. Neither is the need for Black America to have a hard-fought response to it. To “rise like a phoenix” has become a major part of the Black experience and legacy. The phrase comes from the mythical bird that is reborn from its own ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I remember growing up, and the grown-ups had a saying for us fellas out roughhousing. “It’s all fun and games until someone gets hurt. A woman was shot and lost her life in Minneapolis, Minnesota, last week. The truth about the ending of her life is that it did ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Once Oprah asked Prince why he lived in Minnesota and talked about how cold it is there. He told her he would always live there. She asked why. He said, “It’s so cold that it keeps the bad people out!” Well, obviously he had no idea bad ICE gangsters ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) On Saturday, January 3, the American government launched an unprovoked, unjustifiable and illegal attack on the sovereign country of Venezuela, killed at least 80 people, bombed civilian and military areas, kidnapped its president, Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Adela Flores de Maduro; and brought them to the United ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The United States Postal Service is under attack again—and this time, the damage threatens both Black livelihoods and Black votes. The Postal Service is not just how we send letters. It is democratic infrastructure. It is also one of the largest employers of Black workers in the nation. Roughly 29 percent of ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Future historians may rank Donald Trump as the worst leader in US history. Those historians along with future political and social scientists may focus on and highlight his character, morality and temperament in their assessments and conclusions. They may conclude after reviewing his pronouncements, actions and policies that he ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) As for the estimated $8 billion in government (taxpayer) money stolen by crooks in Minnesota, people demand answers to many questions. But the 800-pound elephant/question goes unasked: Why is government in the business of welfare in the first place? Where in the Constitution does it permit the federal government to ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Mark Twain is credited with the saying, “History doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes.” Events do not occur over time in the same manner, but you can find patterns or similarities within them that make it appear as though you are experiencing that Yogi-ism, “…it’s deja-vu all over ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Christopher Rufo has become one of the most influential and polarizing conservative intellectuals of the last decade, despite not holding public office, running for election, or leading a traditional political movement. In an era where politics increasingly plays out through media ecosystems rather than legislative chambers, Rufo represents a ...