(ThyBlackMan.com) Leaders provide vision. They help people understand where they are, how they got there and what they must do to go forward. They help calm nerves and strengthen courage. They are steady in times of trouble, inspiring in times of demoralization. Donald Trump’s reaction to the terrorist acts in ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) At times I wonder if some Southern Whites understand the Confederate battle flag issue outside of themselves. We have heard the issue of this flag hashed and rehashed quite a bit this year due to the national social unrest. The basic argument given regarding the flag is that it ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Two Hispanics, a diminutive Libertarian and a Donald loomed large in the fifth and thankfully, last Republican debate of 2015. The amigo Senators Rubio and Cruz stole the night “insulting” each other in what can only be described as a full-on duel between the sole Hispanics running. This was ...
(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 ...