(ThyBlackMan.com) One of the best kept secrets over the past 50 years is that, proportionately, Republicans in Congress supported passage of the landmark 1964 Civil Rights Act by a much wider margin than Democrats. As CNN.com reported, “The Guardian’s Harry J. Enten broke down the vote, showing that more than 80% of Republicans ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I was admittedly not surprised to find out about the deep connections between Rev. Al Sharpton, the FBI and the mafia. I’ve read things, heard things and seen things that gave me an awkward feeling when I spent time with him in New York. At the same time, I’ve ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Amidst the searching for a foreign 777 aircraft and the shooting at Fort Hood, there has limited discussion if any regarding the response of Putin to the announcement on the pinprick sanctions President Obama has levied against the former Soviet Union. Though it is not often that I can ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Friends, allow me to take you on a journey back in time. Contemplate these words: I don’t know what will happen now. We’ve got some difficult days ahead. But it really doesn’t matter with me now, because I’ve been to the mountaintop. And I don’t mind. Like anybody, I ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Demographics are against the GOP, and they know it. So they’ve gotten desperate, and they’re without limits, so if they EVER regain control of this government, they’re not letting it go again, regardless to WHAT they have to do. They’re already experimenting with despotism in the state of Michigan ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “Wuthering Heights” is the classic 1847 novel written by Emily Bronte under the pseudonym of Ellis Bell. This masterpiece of British literature – set in the Victorian era – is a tale with the themes of revenge and redemption; jealousy and juxtaposition; morality and manipulation. “Wuthering Heights” is wholly ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Recently I have been thinking, that I am glad South African apartheid was gone before Alicia Keyes, Rihanna & Beyoncé were born because I really believe that they would have performed there just to get a check. Now I am not holding the aforementioned to the platitudes of others ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) President Obama’s political enemies and critics repeatedly refer to him as a socialist. These people used the words socialism and socialist as smears – as badges of dishonor and disdain. I think it’s a fair question to ask if they’re engaging in this incessant campaign of name calling accidentally ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The Kenyan Proverb, “When elephants fight the grass suffers,” is very apropos to us, the grassroots. Only in our case, we are fighting over elephants and donkeys, but we are still the ones suffering. We watch the two parties fight every day, and then we take sides and jump ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Now I may not be able to tell you what happened on some cable television program or pontificate of what I think may happen on some contrived artificial reality show, but I am in a position to conjure and offer perspectives on other contrived non-events such as what is ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Michael Brendan Dougherty wrote an article stating that the only way for conservatives to reach black voters is to drop their colorblind idealism. Dougherty wrote… “Conservatives in the GOP like to assail identity politics and tout their own ideology as one of color blindness. Sometimes this is stupidly marketed ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Should people who receive government assistance in the form of SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program), WIC (Women Infants and Children nutritional program) via EBT (Electronic Benefits Transfer Card) be drug tested? Should a positive drug test make them ineligible to receive their benefits? At first my conclusion was a ...