(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 ...
(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 ...