(ThyBlackMan.com) In response to Michael Eric Dyson’s scathing take-down, West issued what must have been the shortest comment of his career – probably because Dyson was so thorough in his take-down that it didn’t leave West much room for a defense. But even what he did say was so delusional, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, after winning reelection, pronounced Chicago “the greatest city in America.” Run by Democrats for more than eight decades, Chicago should serve as a showplace that reflects the wonderful world of “progressive policies.” Public schools are a mess, and the city’s finances place their bonds at ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Black politicians, civil rights organizations and others who say they are concerned with the welfare of poor black people often support harmful measures. One of the most effective tools for disadvantaged people is to be able to charge a lower price for what they sell and pay a higher ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) If I were Republican, I would be deeply concerned about the past. Republicans singlehandedly eradicated slavery in America – which simultaneously ended the systematic kidnapping, rape, murder, and hard labor of black people here even as it preserved this nation’s union during its most tenuous days. Republicans – white ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Welcome to Hollywood, where dreams become real — and where logic, reason and economics 101 become dreams. Take the current battle over the minimum wage. In Los Angeles County, the minimum wage is $9 per hour. Theater actors, however, can be paid as little as $7 a performance, and ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In this column entry, you will not find the terms Republican, Democrat, or Independent. You will not read about race. There will be no references – overt or covert – to issues of gender or age. No lyrics from the Doobie Brothers song of the same title will appear. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) How long can we expect to see new reports and videos of unarmed black men being shot by police in incidents all across the country? Aspects of two of the most recent shootings in Tulsa, Okla. and North Charleston, S.C., suggest some answers to the question, and the answers ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Why are Democrats throwing away the greatest opportunity since 2008 to win the Presidency in 2016 and take the Senate and House back? A recent NBC/Wall Street Journal poll determined that the American public’s number one priority is job creation. Politicians on both sides of aisle have not presented ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Republicans are often criticized, many times unfairly so, for using the “race card” when it comes to the Black community. Liberals postulate that if Republicans treated the Black voter like any other voter; or treated Black groups like White groups; then the Black community would vote in their own ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Thanks to television, our perception of many careers can be skewed. While wildly entertaining, the lives of doctors, lawyers, police officers and political professionals have all gotten the TV treatment and the result has often been a glamorization of the profession. Scandal, one of primetime TV’s biggest hits, has ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Co-authored by Heather McCulloch, Director, Tax Alliance for Economic Mobility and Dedrick Asante-Muhammad, Senior Director of the NAACP Economic Department As we all make sure we have done what we need to do to comply with our complicated tax code, there is a serious debate concerning the future of ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “Who can I turn to, when nobody needs me? My heart wants to know, and so I must go where destiny leads me.” Listening to an old album by the Temptations, “In a Mellow Mood,” made me think about the political trick-bag Black folks are in now that Barack ...