(ThyBlackMan.com) When unemployment numbers were released on Friday, commentators reacted joyfully. Alan Krueger, who heads the White House Council of Economic Advisors, described the creation of 247,000 jobs as a victory because the predictions were that the economy would only generate 170,000 jobs. Unemployment rates went down to 7.7 percent, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Although 8 years old, this article is still one of my favorites – and it still applies. Black folks need to change our conversation. For the past forty years most of our conversation has been about politics. Most of our efforts have been centered on politics. Reminiscent of Reconstruction, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Courageous Tea Party Senator Rand Paul confirmed my statement that no one can foresee the future well enough to be totally fatalistic. Since the presidential election, discouraged patriots have been saying we have lost the country. Obama holds all the cards. All hope of restoring our country back to ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) This economy is poised for another difficult period of economic upheaval. Blacks are finding themselves facing difficult headwinds as our unemployment rates turn upward. While the national unemployment rate for blacks in February remained at 13.8% overall, there are ominous state unemployment rates lurking behind the national numbers that ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I’m not here to defend President Obama, because as I pointed out in previous articles, I have an issue or two with some of his policies myself, just like I’ve had with EVERY White president. But I think we owe this brother the benefit of the doubt. He’s plagued ...
(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 ...