(ThyBlackMan.com) This morning as I tried to prepare my daughters for school, the whole debate over the federal sequesterian crisis flood into its proper focus. Each of my three daughters attends charter schools where they usually have to wear uniforms each day. On a normal day, my life is relatively ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The National Rifle Association is at it again, seeking to find ways to drum up support for a set of gun laws that don’t quite make any sense. This week, the organization put out a new ad specifically targeted toward African Americans, particularly young black men, stating that the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Yesterday, March 3rd, 1865, Abraham Lincoln passed the The Freedmen’s Bureau bills which created a federal agency that saw the transition of Blacks from slavery. The bill sought to aid former black slaves (and whites) by providing them with food, clothing, and education. The bill, which was clearly race-specific and with the goal of self-empowerment ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Growing up in Texas, I consider myself a Texan and not a Southerner. I was raised in Fort Worth, the “City Where the West Begins.” So my image of Texans centered on the rough and tough Wild West not the genteel cotillion throwing south. But, unbeknownst to me at ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Gun control and the 2nd amendment have been heated topics of debate in the U.S. for years. With the horrible tragedies that occurred in Connecticut leaving 27 people dead, the debate quickly renewed with all of America taking sides. The National Rifle Association (NRA) is the leading lobbying organization ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I have been extremely critical of President Obama for using the Black community as his personal political pawn. I have been just as critical of the Black community’s acceptance of that treatment. There are so many other issues I would like to write about—Africa, economics, international trade, etc. – ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Supreme Court justices Justice Sonia Sotomayor and Stephen Breyer virtually seethed with rage in their roundhouse denunciation of the High Court’s denial of review to Bongani Charles Calhoun. The issue again was racial bias in the prosecution of Calhoun on drug charges in Texas. The U.S. Attorney that prosecuted ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Here Are Some Other Things that Mississippi Decided to Ratify First. After 148 years Mississippi has “officially” abolished slavery by ratifying the 13th amendment.[1] We can assume that what took policymakers so long was the historical and present day desire to make sure white privilege was so ingrained that ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I consider the South Side of Chicago to be my second home. I love this community like no other, and I find this part of the city to be filled with hard working, intelligent, loving and industrious citizens. The South Side gets a lot of attention for the violence, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I often wonder why Obama-haters tend to hate Obama so much more than they do the Republicans, who have a much more malevolent agenda towards the American people. The GOP is engaged in an ongoing campaign to abolish Medicare, Social Security, organized labor, the minority’s right to vote, and ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) It has always been intriguing to me that we have elected thousands of Black politicians since Reconstruction, especially since 1970, while the number of Black economic advocates pales in comparison. Understanding that Black economic advocates are not elected per se, it makes sense to me that if economics is ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Research at The University of Pennsylvania says that the nation’s first bi-racial president has made among the fewest references to race in American history. According to a study by Daniel Q. Gillion, an assistant professor of Political Science at The University of Pennsylvania, President Barack Obama has been the ...