(ThyBlackMan.com) Some say the Confederate flag is a symbol of the bravery of Southern soldiers who died in a glorious attempt to leave the Union. Is it? Why was the Civil War fought, to end slavery or preserve the Union? Lincoln proclaimed that he would do anything to preserve the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The word minion is a noun – and is defined as “a subordinate”, or “petty official.” Some folks in these parts might consider me a minion to/for President Obama. I simply refer to those people as wrong. But I digress! Here’s a question for you. What does the field ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “The last official government census of 1991 (to which no oppostion party nor the RPF objected at the time) had approximately 595,000 Tutsis in Rwanda with about 40,000 in Kigali. Most of the dead on display at Gashozi are Hutus not Tutsis. General Dallaire made a report on April ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I cannot make this stuff up. Billionaire real estate/entertainment magnate Donald Trump – the 2016 Republican president candidate who basically broke the internet with the incendiary remarks he made three weeks ago about Mexico and Mexicans entering the US – could have walked back his comments. He should have ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The new numbers reported by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) when it comes to the black unemployment rate were favorable. Blacks as a worker group have the highest unemployment rate of any of the worker groups followed by the BLS. The unemployment number for June showed African Americans ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Over the weekend a reporter from a major media outlet called. He has been wanting to do an extended profile on me for well over a year, but I have continued to delay the reporter. What I finally decided to do was to speak to him off the record ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) My sofa felt pretty comfortable. Ninety percent of the time, I’m on the road as chairman of the Conservative Campaign Committee. http://bit.ly/1Nm7PHJ This was a rare occasion to be in town for the Volusia 9/12 Project monthly meeting. I saw the email reminder about the meeting earlier that day ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) As most Americans celebrate its 239th independence day from Great Britain, the 4th of July which began in 1776, we all would be wise to remember that African Americans were neither all free nor independent when this holiday first began. For that matter, many would say we are not ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best. They’re not sending you. They’re not sending you. They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with us. They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people. I ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The count of black churches in the South that have been torched is not the six that have been burned since the massacre of nine blacks at Charleston’s Emmanuel AME Church, but 37. The church burnings occurred in a period of not two weeks but over 18 months. That ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) BRIEF BACKGROUND.International legal protection of refugees centres on a person meeting the criteria for refugee status as laid down in the 1951 Refugee Convention. Under Article 1(A)2, the term “refugee” shall apply to any person who:“…owing to well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Just this past month I wrote about how the conservatives insist on ignoring the obvious- that white police killing of unarmed black folks is racially motivated. One month later, conservatives are at it again, claiming they don’t know why a racist shot up an all black church. This denial ...