(ThyBlackMan.com) President Obama’s re-election campaign is off and running. In fact it is “Forward.” It is so “Forward” it’s looking backwards at all that has been accomplished in the three years since President Obama has been President to denote just how far “Forward” we’ve moved. If you didn’t watch the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The last calendar year was an interesting and progressive one for President Barack Obama on the economic front. The president took over a struggling economy, even though he refused to openly address racial economic inequality. At the same time, it’s easy to see that during the last calendar year, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The scramble to dig up any piece of salacious dirt, gossip, or innuendo about President Obama before he was President Obama is never ending. The latest in the long train of purported tell-all exposes on Obama is no different. Due out in June, Barack Obama: The Story is a ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In all honesty, Mitt Romney and the current cast of GOP caricatures remind me of a 1970s bad Kung Fu movie. Now we can outline all of Mitt Romney’s flaws and problems and even place in the open field for all to examine. But it will not make a ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) It’s been a year and a day since Osama bin Laden’s corpse was rolled off a ship and left to rot at the bottom of the sea. Since that time al-Qaida’s continued to vow to avenge their fallen leader’s death. The war in Iraq has really, really ended. Syria ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Candidly, I have struggled with this for years; how best to explain why I am a black conservative and why fellow black Americans should join me. I served on a board with an extremely bright black mom. Both of her kids, a boy and a girl, are brilliant; her ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) When the average American thinks of Rwanda, there are two thoughts that come to mind—genocide and gorillas. During the early 1990s, Rwanda killed almost 1 million of its own people in a brazen display of ethnic cleansing. As with the Jewish Holocaust, the world stood idly by and pretended that ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) A few months ago on the campaign trail, while giving a television interview following his Florida primary win, Presumptive Presidential Candidate Willard “Mitt” Romney said: ”I’m not concerned about the very poor. We have a safety net there.” Although many considered this a gaff, it is more reflective of ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) During a BBC radio address titled, “The Russian Enigma,” on October 1, 1939, former British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill said, “I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma; but perhaps there is a key. That key is ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Guitar-strumming iconoclastic Ted Nugent got an obligatory visit from and interview by the Secret Service for his loose-lipped crack that to ensure that President Obama’s not be re-elected, “we need to ride into that battlefield and chop their heads off in November” at the National Rifle Association convention. But ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) By now we should all be fairly familiar with how certain media stories emerge onto various networks and into the public sphere. Someone says something really stupid. Media outlets pounce on the statement and quote it or replay it ad infinitum. Pundits (present company included) ‘appear’ on various networks ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) First I want to give a shout out to all the African Americans out on the front line protesting against the horrible atrocities in the Sudan, especially those who have written diligently and criticized the President for his lack of attention toward that war torn nation. Not to pat ...