(ThyBlackMan.com) Mr. Smiley, do you intend to return the Millions of dollars that you reportedly made from herding poor Black people and Hispanics into the Wells Fargo “Ghetto Loan” scam to the people who lost their money and homes? And Dr. West, In your learned opinion, what is the appropriate ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Minister Louis Farrakhan, in a compelling address to President Barack Obama, made a plea to the president to consider coming to Chicago to see about the families of those who’ve been victimized by the astonishing epidemic of gun violence in the city over the past several years. Minister Louis Farrakhan, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Well the other night, I was forced by my family to watch The Soul Train Music Awards. I wanted to watch The Walking Dead and Boardwalk Empire, but I was convinced to watch the award show with them. After all, I grew up watching Soul Train, “the hippest trip ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Obama brings kids to the White House as props for photo-op and emotional appeal to unveil his illegal gun control plans. President Obama despicably using kids to undermine the Second Amendment via executive order is a perfect example of why the Tea Party can not go away. Due to extensive ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I’ve been so aggressively out front in my criticism of Tavis Smiley and Cornel West that I decided that I needed to draft a formal statement explaining why I’ve embraced this issue so passionately – and by the way, I could also add Boyce Watkins to the mix, but ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I really had not planned on writing anything about the shooting in Newtown, Conn. because I didn’t have anything fresh or thought provoking to write. As I have indicated before, I can’t muster any extra sympathy for the tragic events in Connecticut when young kids are dying every day ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In the past there were multiple visions proposed for black people by its national leaders. During the 20th century there were great debates on the future of African Americans. The most famous being that between Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Dubois; which galvanized the masses with ideas and strategies ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) As it has been presented, the Obama Administration has indicated that he is ready for serious gun reform. He has pledged to put his “full weight” behind a legislative package for containing gun violence offered by Senator Dianne Feinstein. The bill aims to “stop the sale, transfer, importation and ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In his Gettysburg Address, President Abraham Lincoln acknowledged that America was “conceived in Liberty.” Lincoln could never imagine voters supporting a president aborting Liberty to rebirth America conceived in Government. Obamacare is the equivalent of America born-again conceived in government. In the classic movie, “Planet of the Apes”, Charleston ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The national unemployment rate for December is 7.8% per the U.S. Labor Department. The black rate of unemployment is 14.0%. We will officially enter our fifth year at double-digit unemployment levels under the Obama Administration this month. By comparison, the unemployment rate for blacks under Ronald Reagan reached it ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The Bureau of Labor Statistics released the unemployment data for the month of December, and while things are getting better for whites, African Americans continue to suffer from unemployment rates that would be unimaginable if those being affected were of any other race. White unemployment rose slightly from 6.8 percent ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) This current Administration has been less than robust in addressing issues critical to the black community. Behind the high black unemployment numbers are real problems such as high rates of housing foreclosures and unprecedented high rates when it comes to reduced income and wealth within the black community. The ...