(ThyBlackMan.com) I used to like watching the news on TV. In the morning I could check it out before my day got started, and in the evening I could get an update on the day’s occurrences before going to bed. Not too much of that going on now. Quite frankly, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Sometimes I feel as if I am in a bad dream, it is as if President Obama and President George W. Bush are one in the same, for the policies I was vehemently against while GWB was in office, I am still against and have been put in effect ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) At last weekend’s White House Correspondents Association dinner, President Obama offered this joke about John Boehner’s spray tan: “These days, the House Republicans actually give John Boehner a harder time than they give me – which means orange really is the new black.” Well played, POTUS. Day after day, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) No one can deny that racism is holding the Black community down – but it’s not just White racism, it’s also the racist attitudes that some Black people have against other Black people. I’ve said this many times before, but I’m going to say it again. Black people are ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Bill O’Reilly is to the news world what a Justin Bieber headline is to a non-Belieber; after a while, the redundancy can and will take a toll mentally. To further add mental restraint onto the pile of already yay-high Bill O’ Reilly discrepancies, O’Reilly decides to attack Beyoncé’s resurgence, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Every since the Donald Sterling scandal erupted, conservative Republicans have been all over the airways and social media declaring that Donald Sterling was a Democrat, and that proves their ongoing contention that it is the Democrats who had the racist past, and it is the Democrats who are the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The saga of Cliven Bundy is a story that captures a moment in modern American political, social and racial attitudes. It is a story that has gotten much attention in the press recently and as most stories do in our modern age, it has divided people along political and ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) As I write this, President Obama has ended his Asian tour (sounds rockstaresque). Although he was met by major protest nearly everywhere he went, from the Philippines where protestors were sprayed with water hoses to Malaysia, his main worry continues to be how to deal with Japan, an ally ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) National Basketball Association (NBA) L.A. Clippers owner Donald Sterling has a long-documented and publicly-known history of being a bigot; the revelation of the 2009 housing discrimination suit against him served as a monolithic red flag. Even in the midst of that 2009 scandal and in the face of provable, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Tom, I try to avoid bringing race into discussions on issues other than when race is the issue itself, because it becomes a distraction. But in this case, race is the thousand pound gorilla sitting in the corner that no one wants to acknowledge. And besides, we’re close we’re ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In a few months it will be the summer of 2014. As such it is difficult for me not to project infinite possibilities reduced to a singular historical event – the start of World War I in 1914. See, up to the actual start of the First World War, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) There are Many people in the country who are going to accuse me of being an Barack Obama cheerleader for what I’m about to say, but I’m not. My definition of a cheerleader is an ideologue who defends the leader of his or her team whether they are right or ...