(ThyBlackMan.com) The unemployment numbers for September are finally in and as predicted blacks did not fare well (https://thyblackman.com/2013/09/30/bleak-economic-outlook-for-blacks-based-on-feds-actions/). There is no question; blacks as a working group are in dire straits. When you include the Bush administration, blacks have experienced double-digit unemployment for the last six years without interruption. They ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Sometimes, I am genuinely baffled as it relates to the political aspirations of the Republican Party these days. What is their plan? Do they even have a plan? Who are its architects? What’s their endgame? How does the American people factor into said plan? Conventional wisdom holds that if ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) (John 8:32 And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free). What this country becomes in regard to providing for the needs of its citizenry will be decided as a result of the upcoming budget talks. The final outcome of these talks, which could take ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The following list represents a tried-and-true formula for gaining instant fame and prominence as a black conservative/Republican. #1. Spend inordinate amounts of media time talking about how much you loathe being called an “African-American” -since hyphenations of any kind are “un-American.” #2. Tell your audiences how sick you ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.” Thomas Sowell Why do we keep electing the same people to the same office year after year, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) There are two ominous kickers in the deal brokered that ended the GOP manufactured government debt ceiling and partial government shutdown crisis. One is the tight time frames agreed to that would keep the government open until Jan. 15 and the time frame limit extending the debt ceiling to ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I was born in Los Angeles, and as I gazed upon the representation of the shiny new edifices that’s envisioned as the NEW Leimert Park, I was saddened and felt a profound sense of loss. All those impressive and shiny buildings didn’t fool me for a minute, because I’ve ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Very few of the many, many thousands of Confederate soldiers who died defending slavery actually owned slaves. Most were just poor farmers. Not only were the slave owners few and far between, they were clustered in swiftly moving cavalry units that suffered far fewer casualties than the plodding infantry ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Brain surgeon notwithstanding, Dr. Ben Carson is an idiot. It seems that White conservatives will never learn that by trotting people like Allen West, Herman Cain, or Dr. Ben Carson out before the public, they’re doing themselves a disservice in the Black community. Black people know and understand our own people. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Dr. Ben Carson’s shoot from the lip, crackpot quips, digs, and insults at women, blacks, Democrats, and especially President Obama are fast becoming the stuff of legend. This time he almost outdid his past inane cracks with the zinger that the Affordable Care Act is worse than slavery. Carson ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “If I can’t have you nobody can! I’ll kill you before I’ll see you with his filthy hands on you!!!” So goes the insane cry of the man who sees his spouse or lover as a possession, rather than another human being. It is the cry that usually precedes ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In September, the National Review Online made public the blueprint of the House GOPs war plan to stonewall the debt ceiling raise. The plan of attack included many of the same demands the GOP has repeatedly made to stall, eliminate, or delay every program and initiative President Obama has ...