(ThyBlackMan.com) The GOP’s inviolate article of faith is that big government is inherently evil. The GOP has been stupendously successful through much of the last century in tagging any Democrat that champions increased regulatory powers, higher taxes on corporations and the rich, greater public spending on health, education and job ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Last week, President Obama gave his annual State of the Union speech before a joint session of Congress. I am stunned at how far left he has moved politically. He wants more government spending, more programs, and more government regulations. Ted Kennedy, the late senator from Massachusetts, would be ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I listened to as much of President Obama’s Chicago speech today as MSNBC and CNN would allow, with interruptions for advertisements and comments from “experts” unknowledgeable about Chicago or education. The president was appropriately passionate about the tragedies of Hydia Pendleton, acknowledged the presence of Haydia’s parents and spoke passionately also of the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Once again Dr. Cornel West has gone out of his way to inflame headlines and relegate a complex issue to the waste bin of simplistic zealotry by calling President Obama a war criminal. . In his typical pseudo intellectual fashion, Cornel West continues to shout the obvious – that innocent people ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Like the rest of the country, I found myself curious about the unfortunate events involving late Christopher Dorner. He was, like myself, an angry black man. He also appeared to have a good reason to be angry, since the LAPD is one of the most notoriously racist and abusive ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) One is Commander-in-Chief of the most powerful nation on earth. The other is Public Enemy Number One. As one stood before a thousand cameras, his image flashing across 70 million television screens, the other was holed up in a cabin on the other side of the continent, hundreds of ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Violence has always been America’s favorite pastime, and the gun, her preferred toy. It is no secret America was established by use of the gun in threatening, provoking and murdering vulnerable populations, and since her birth as a nation, her image in the world has been colored by these ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Christopher Dorner is a canvas onto which we can project our national anxieties and obsessions. Christopher Dorner is racialized as an African American. He is gendered as a male. Christopher Dorner represents authority, conformity, and State power, as a (former) police officer. Those identities are intersectional. For some, Christopher ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Since the shooting death of 15-year old honor student Hadiya Pendleton, millions of black and brown eyeballs have turned toward the White House, wondering if there is a racial disparity between our beloved president’s reaction to the deaths of white vs. black children. Millions saw the president cry in ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Just imagine someone in your family travelling half way across the country to help a family they don’t know nor have any connection to; while at the same time his own family is in crisis. Just imagine how you would feel if your family barely had food to eat, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Some people believe that President Barack Obama has done nothing for the African American community and that he just flat out ignores his own people. But the other side of the argument is that we as a people have become too dependent upon our commander in chief. Now before ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) As a people, in particular a nation – we some dumb folk. I really wanted to use another word that conjoins a female parent with the act of copulation, but that is beside the point. I know I have been harping on the inadequacy of the general populous in ...