(ThyBlackMan.com) As 2013 came to a close it brought an end to the fifth year of the Presidency of Barack Obama. Fifth years are often difficult for Presidents who are re-elected to a second term and already pundits from both sides of the political perspective are analyzing what 2013 meant ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) You can imagine how surprised and affected I was while watching the strong, intelligent Melissa Harris-Perry break down in tears during a recent on-air apology on MSNBC. The apology came after a week of controversy following what I would call “Black-Baby-Gate,” an incident during which Melissa and a group ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The GOP has ruthlessly sold the outlandish myth to millions that a hike in the minimum wage is a huge job killer. It has been so effective in its hard sell that President Obama and Congressional Democrats have repeatedly been stymied and frustrated in every effort they’ve made to ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) America has long had a problem with incarceration. More American citizens are put behind bars than any country in the world. The system exists and grows because incarceration is profitable, especially for private prisons. But besides the private institutions, there are numerous entities that depend financially on the incarceration ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) This is America. This is the land of the free and home of the brave. In the good old U.S. of A., you have the right the say what you want to say. Here, you can believe what you want to believe – even if your belief is as ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) President Obama’s slumping approval numbers seem to confirm the belief that second term presidents run into trouble, sometimes big trouble, in trying to hold it together during their second term. In Obama’s case, the NSA spy debacle, the lingering anger over Benghazi, the AP leaks, and the big contentious ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I’ve never been a conservative and never will be. But what I find funny is that, when I go into the media, people assume that I am a liberal. It might be because I identify with poor black people, support affirmative action and have helped to fight against mass ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Last week, Joyce Jones, a columnist for BET.com wrote an article titled, “The Loneliness of the Black Republican: What attracts young African-Americans to the GOP?” Although the article was off-base on so many points – No I won’t waste my time listing them here – it got me reflecting ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) An article published on http://nky.com, titled, Running for Senate not job for paupers, cited: “The average household in the United States has a net worth of $69,000, but the average wealth of a U.S. senator is about $12 million, according to statistics from the U.S. Census Bureau and Center ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The drumbeat refrain from Tea Party leaders and more than a few wishful thinking GOP strategists, governors and congressional leaders is that the roll-out woes of the Affordable Care Act is the party’s passport to electoral victory in 2014 and 2016. Polls do show that a majority of Americans ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I heard a knock on the door of my hotel room. It was Donald. “Turn on Megyn Kelly. She is reporting about an MSNBC commentator’s claim that using the term “Obamacare” is the same as calling him the N word.” http://bit.ly/18QPu5V MSNBC’s Melissa Harris Perry’s accusation is absurd. It ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “For it matters now how straight the gate/how charged with punishment the scroll/I am the master of my fate/I am the captain of my soul.” That is the fate stanza of the poem ‘Invictus’ as written by William Ernest Henley. It is also apparently the mindset of a visibly ...