(ThyBlackMan.com) I like Bernie Sanders. He seems to be non-calculating, and he talks common sense. The same is true of Elizabeth Warren, and I think they would make a great ticket. In fact, the perfect ticket. The only problem is, Bernie Sanders is a self-avowed Democratic Socialist, and the American ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) SUNNY NTAYOMBYA claims that the Legislature is mandated to abide by what the people expects of them.According to him,Members of Parliament are not at liberty to oppose the views of the people.Yet,the said people put in place a Constitution to govern them and this sacrosanct document creates institutions such ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In the wake of the recent murders in a South Carolina church, the killer’s hope of igniting a race war produced the opposite effect. Blacks and whites in South Carolina came together to condemn his act and the race hate behind it. Some saw in the decision to remove ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Incidents over just the past two months have taken Black folks on the psychological ride of our lives. The White woman in Spokane, Washington, who passed as Black caught and held our attention; then there was the McKinney, Texas pool party incident; and then the Supreme Court decision on ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Since Barack Obama became our president, he has saved the auto industry, brought this country out of a recession, decreased the national unemployment rate, pulled the United States out of Iraq, aided in the bank bailout recovery, located and killed Bin Laden, helped the housing/real estate market to rebound ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Donald Trump’s political ascendancy has less to do with him and more to do with the Republican electorate’s total disillusionment with the lack of leadership coming from our congressional leadership. All of a sudden, along comes Donald Trump speaking a language the Republican base understands—English! In my view, Trump, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) During Wednesday’s highly controversial, contentious, and emotional debate in the South Carolina House of Representatives about whether to remove the Confederate flag from the grounds of the state capitol, something amazing happened. Or rather, someone amazing happened. A profile in courage emerged during the marathon session. Jenny Anderson Horne ...
(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 ...