(ThyBlackMan.com) The NRA and key GOP congressional leader’s response to President Obama’s new round of unilateral executive orders on gun control was as predictable as the sun rising in the Sahara Desert in August. The NRA thundered that they are useless, unconstitutional, and won’t do a thing to keep guns ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) My brother attended the red carpet premiere of his wife’s first big screen acting role at a Baltimore movie theater. Forced to park blocks away in the hood, after the movie my brother asked a friend to drive him back to his car rather than risk walking. My brother ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory (R) recently signed into law a package of voting reforms passed by the North Carolina legislature. McCrory approved the most sweeping voter-suppression law seen in the United States in a generation. The law is just the latest in a spate of similar laws passed ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) President Barack Obama punctuated the official White House proclamation on the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington with the oft-quoted line from Martin Luther King Jr.’s, “I Have a Dream” speech imploring the nation to let justice to roll down like a mighty stream. Obama did not quote ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) During the past year, we have watched monumental change take place all over the world; not just in terms of democracy, but in terms of culture, law, and politics, etc. Our major institutions have not been immune from this change that is sweeping across the globe. There has been ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Some astute person once stated, “Politics is the art of turning public money into private money.” Unless you have been hangin’ out on Mars, you certainly know that to be true. Named by some as the “Wealthiest Area in the Nation,” Washington, D.C., called Chocolate City by Parliament Funkedelic, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I wasn’t really sure what to think when I saw the public back-and-forth taking place between Rev. Al Sharpton and Fox News host Bill O’Reilly. Most of these battles remind me of WWE wrestling: publicly-staged fights designed to provide just enough political theater to boost ratings. But something about ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Bubba doesn’t care about Reverend Jackson’s “keep hope alive” mantra. He wants the custom of keeping a bar of soap alive in the prison’s community showers. Bubba can’t wait for Jesse Jackson, Jr. to lather up, drop a bar of generic soap and bend over to pick it up ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Russell Simmons seems to understand one thing about the recent Harriet Tubman s*x Tape video that was released on the Internet: It was a huge mistake. After the uproar on the web, Simmons was apologetic and remorseful, saying that he was deeply sorry for what happened. As soon as ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Who determines what racism is acceptable and what racism must be punished? What are the criteria? What has happened with Paula Deen and Fox “news analysts” (wink, wink) Bill O’Reilly has, for me, accentuated to whole question of racism is acceptability. Paula Deen, as I’m sure you know, has ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Joe McCarthy was the infamous United States Senator who launched a witch hunt, known as the Red Scare of the 1950s, which falsely accused so many of being communists intending to destroy the country. Joe McCarthy finally got his comeuppance at a Congressional hearing when Atty. Joseph Nye Welch ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The the country and the world begin to focus on the upcoming 50th anniversary of the historic March on Washington, this is a good time to revisit the real goals of the March. Of course, it is most remembered for Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s famous “I Have A Dream” ...