(ThyBlackMan.com) Since the 2008 election of Barack Obama as the 44th president of the United States, numerous constituencies have experienced some measure of social uplift as they have exercised their political strength in compelling the administration to advance their interests. This reality prevails, as the Hispanic community, ever politically cognizant ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) GOP Presidential candidate Rick Perry sweated bullets in issuing statement after statement claiming that he got rid of the offensive named “Niggerhead” rock on his family owned West Texas hunting lodge years ago. Though some say the name stayed on the rock for years after Rick Perry frequented the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) With Herman Cain making a first-place showing in Florida’s recent Presidency 5 straw poll and a Zogby poll, people are taking a second look at the former Godfather’s Pizza CEO turned presidential candidate. Yesterday, Cain scored another resounding victory in the National Federation of Republican Women’s straw poll, drawing ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I watched presidential candidate Herman Cain on The Tonight Show the other day. He’d gotten my attention after Anderson Cooper called to ask what I thought about Cain’s recent comment about African Americans being brainwashed into voting Democratic. I thought that Cain’s remarks were curious for a number of reasons, mainly because they ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In the last Republican presidential debate Texas Governor Rick Perry was taken to task by his fellow candidates for allowing children born of undocumented parents to receive in-state college tuition rates, and providing social welfare benefits to all regardless of citizenship status. His response? “(I)f you say that we ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) As Monday’s Washington Post reported, “Herman Cain is on a roll” – sort of. After being edged out of August’s presidential primary spotlight by Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann, Cain — the gospel-singing, talk-radio-hosting former Kansas City Fed director and Godfather’s Pizza CEO — has surged in September with a ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In a climate of economic uncertainty defined by widespread joblessness and declining net worth among median income households, it’s not difficult to understand why average Americans would want to wage what Republicans termed “class warfare” in order to secure a fair tax rate. If I still worked as a ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The 2012 Presidential Election may be the most defining political event of the 21st Century. Historians may differ, but it could well be our most important national election since Abraham Lincoln’s election in 1860 and Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr’s, in November 1932. In the absence of a dramatic improvement ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Race in America is a difficult subject. When it comes to race America has the mental maturity of a 7 year old that, on occasion will plug its ears with its fingers and sing “La, la, la.” Being American and Negro I understand this. I don’t really have any ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Unless Chris Christie has been in a secret presidential candidate camp for the last year, it’s just too late for him to start running for president. Ideally a candidate needs to decide two years before the first primary to run an effective campaign, one year earlier at the minimum. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Like any good self-proclaimed intellectual brotha, I’ve spewed a million and one theories and solutions for what ails the black community here. Of course, this all sounds great on paper (or in my case, your tablet), but in the real world, there are very few easy fixes for chronic ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain is on fire these days. The former pizza mogul-turned-presidential hopeful scored an impressive first place showing in the recent Presidency 5 straw poll in Florida. Coming from the bottom of the heap of the GOP pack to number one is no easy feat. But ...