(ThyBlackMan.com) Carl Rowan once said, “There are two ways to circumvent or trample over a constitution…one way is to arouse public fear and hatred…the second way is to amass enough police or military power to force your will upon society.” This was decades before the election of President Obama and ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) There are few people on this earth that I love more than Abena Agyeman-Fisher, the editor at NewsOne.com. A consummate professional and arguably the leading online journalist in the country, Abena is never someone I would accuse of being a liar. But this morning, after rolling out of bed ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Black history may soon find that it is defined by one line of demarcation: BB (Before Obama) and AB (After Obama). There might even be some historical reference to the volatile period called DB (During Obama), where an archive will contain images of black people going to blows over where ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) A decade later and we are still in Afghanistan. Those on the campaign trail for the GOP nomination are pontificating out the sides of their necks, John McCain is inveighing nonsense and the Obama administration is taking hits left and right – and rightly so. I have expressed my ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Politicians of African descent in America, in concert with the non-concern of their voting constituency have reinvented the Negro, or better yet made the Negro retro chic. What do I mean by this? Well from an etymological perspective, the word Negro is Spanish for black. The Spanish language comes ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) When Rush Limbaugh exercised his 1st amendment right to free speech and criticized Sandra Fluke for whining about paying for her birth control pills, Democrats and the liberal mainstream media pounced. Granted Rush used some harsh words to describe Sandra Fluke, but that was his first amendment right. What’s ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) There is a lot of money in male bashing, especially regarding Black Men. I remember when the book “Waiting to Exhale” first came out, I read it and I saw the movie, and like every other Sister in there I cheered Angela Bassett on when she burned up all ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Black pundits say that to be black and Republican makes one a despicable race-traitor worthy of no-holds-barred punishment. As a black conservative Republican, I’m not frightened by this; it just angers and frustrates me. My frustration comes from the knowledge that those claiming to have black America’s empowerment and ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Paula Smith, owner of the company Stickatude.com, says that the anti-Obama campaign sticker that says “Don’t Re-Nig 2012? isn’t racist. During an interview with Forbes.com, Paula Smith innocently claims that the bumper sticker was not a reference to the president’s ethnicity, and was simply meant to say that he’s a ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) On Thursday, Mitt Romney addressed the rumors again, during an interview with Fox News Radio’s “Kilmeade & Friends.” “Dr. Ron Paul is a very independent sort as you know. We have only seen each other briefly in halls; we have never had a sit-down discussion,” said Mitt Romney. “My hope ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Many commentators have pointed out a seemingly strange phenomenon: Over the course of his campaign, Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul’s appearances have pulled in enormous crowds. For example, ROn Paul attracted a crowd of 5000 in Illinois, 2700 in Missouri, and well over 1000 in Washington state. His crowds ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Imagine that there was no March on Washington led by the late great Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., or that there was no Montgomery to Selma March or Bus boycott as a direct consequence of the actions of a Rosa Parks, or even no sit in’s at Woolworths. All ...