(ThyBlackMan.com) The news that Apple paid zero taxes on tens of billions in income on its overseas operations, investments, and sales grabbed a momentary headline but stirred little more than a yawn among Republicans leaders. There’s little surprise here for several well-known and deeply troubling reasons. The tax dodge scheme that ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The one factor that contributed most to the downfall of the Democratic Party during the seventies and eighties was allowing conservative Republicans to seize control of the political rhetoric. During that period, much like today, the Democrats simply sat back and allowed themselves, their constituency, and their agenda to ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) It started with a dignified, matronly lady refusing to give up her seat on the bus, and it ended with more than 100 cities aflame. Martin Luther King did not launch the 1955 bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama, but he soon emerged as its champion and the leader of the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Enough! For many years, the American Left has and continues to shamelessly abuse the American people; slandering, beating up and bullying them into submission by using the easily proven false narrative that America is a racist nation. In other words, the Left recklessly and unfairly plays the Race Card. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I expected to receive some pushback after writing my recent commentary about the speech that President Barack Obama gave at Morehouse College this week. The truth is that no matter how politely one expresses a disagreement with the president, you’re more likely to be attacked by those who seek ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) While this country professes to honor the ideals of freedom, independence, liberty, and justice, that’s just lip service. We have a long history of stifling each and every one of those ideals, and anyone who doesn’t believe that should simply try suing a major corporation for an injustice, or ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The mostly media driven scandal talk involving President Obama has so far stirred barely a yawn among the public. There are good reasons. The four alleged scandals, Benghazi, the IRS, the AP leaks, and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius supposed shakedown of corporations to help implement the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Chairman emeritus, Julian Bond, of the NAACP said the tea party is “admittedly racist”. Mr Bond, I challenge you to show us the video, article, facebook post or the tweet in which the tea party admitted it is motivated by racism. As a black tea party activist who has ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Once upon a time, in the years after Lyndon Johnson’s creation of the Welfare state in America two cousins were born. These two are related figuratively and quite possibly, literally. Each grew up in a working class neighborhood. During their early years these two cousins saw the world as ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The sequester is but a bump on the road to America’s real ruin. For those who don’t know, the U.S. is no longer “the greatest nation.” Nor does it even make the list of the 10 most prosperous countries in the world. Whether Black or White, middle to upper class, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Dudley Randall’s poem, “It seems to me, said Booker T; I disagree, said W.E.B.” points out an issue that has plagued Black folks for generations. During Booker T’s time, some Blacks said he was working “for the man” as he tried to build an economic foundation for his people ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Recently the unemployment numbers were published for April. Those numbers from the Bureau of Labor Statistics indicated the black unemployment rate was reduced from 13.3% to 13.2%. The national unemployment rate fell also from 7.6% to 7.5%, while white unemployment remained unchanged and well below double-digit rates at 6.7%. ...