(ThyBlackMan.com) I am hearing all these complaints about the president’s bus, the president’s big, long black bus. They are saying it is too expensive, too luxurious, it was made in Canada, it is too ostentatious, and what else? What else is it that bothers them about the president’s big, long, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Florida GOP Congressman Allen West, in his trademark shoot-from-the-lip style, made brief news recently when he dredged out the worn term “plantationism” to describe the alleged relationship between blacks and Democrats. The slave inference translated into modern day political vernacular is that the Democrats for the past near six ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Republicans are a different breed today comparable to sixty years ago. Recently Texas Governor Rick Perry announced his entry in running for the Presidency of the United States. Perry from where I sit is a reflection of what is wrong with America, in particular the modern Republican Party. In ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) It’s about time! After three years of silence, the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) is finally unleashing its outrage at the nation’s first black president and holding him accountable for policies which have disproportionately failed black Americans. Compared to whites and other minority groups, more blacks are unemployed under Obama ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Congresswoman Maxine Waters minced no words when she said that members of the Congressional Black Caucus are “frustrated” and impatient that President Obama is not doing enough to tackle the crisis problem of black unemployment. This is hardly the first time that Waters and other members of the Caucus ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Why Attack a Sleeping Sentry Before Repelling the Invading Hordes? While Tavis Smiley and Cornel West have the right idea in terms of the need to confront power, it’s their motives and the hypocrisy of their agenda that I have a problem with. They’re clearly being self-serving and purposely ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Let’s go Michele Bachmann! Push ’em out, shove ’em out… WAYYYYY OUT! Yes, you read that correctly. Congresswoman Michele Bachmann’s Iowa Straw Poll victory wasn’t only great news for the Bachmann campaign, it was also tremendous news for the Sarah Palin “campaign.” Which a priori is wonderful news for ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) How long will the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) continue to behave like a person who has been diagnosed with erectile dysfunction (ED) and has been prescribed Viagra by his doctor? The male psyche is extremely fragile and when the doctor prescribes Viagra to him, initially it is a huge ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Like the rest of the country, I couldn’t help but notice the occurrence of black teen ‘”flash mobs” around the country. For those who haven’t been made hip to the game, flash mobs are random groups of people who get together and do “stuff.” The acts committed by flash ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Texas governor and GOP presidential candidate Rick Perry, in an interview with a local African-American newspaper last October, boasted about his appointments and nominations of African-Americans to top spots on major state commissions, state boards, college and university boards, and to the courts. His signature appointment was Wallace Jefferson ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Ok I am just now coming up for air after the onslaught that was borne out of the aftermath of my article on Ron Paul being like a favorite uncle. ( Click here ) Well my email box has been blitzed and is still recuperating. While the majority of the responses ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Dr. Cornel West, author, professor of Princeton University, and TV and radio talk host Tavis Smiley have generated a lot of controversy in the media arising from their criticism of President Obama’s leadership, or lack thereof. They are currently on nationwide “poverty tour” that will take them to 16 ...