(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 ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) On June 6, 2015, Hasan Harnett became the chairman of the North Carolina Republican Party. But he wasn’t always a Republican… My story is probably a good example of how the Republican Party can and is growing by reaching out to different communities in North Carolina and across the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The recent and despicable killings of Charleston church members have brought about renewed pandemonium over the flying of the Confederate flag. The concerns from Black America’s perspective are legitimate, but with reservations, in other words are African Americans being a bit disingenuous about the issue. Consider the fact that ...
(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 ...