(ThyBlackMan.com) There is no right more precious in our nation than the right of citizens to cast a ballot on Election Day. That is why generations of Americans have sacrificed and even died in efforts to expand the right to vote. Yet across the country, powerful corporate interests and the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Playing the race card is no longer working for the Democratic Party. That stunning pronouncement was made by Bernard Goldberg, author of “A Slobbering Love Affair”. This momentous turn of events highlighted by Goldberg was welcome news to us in the National Black Republican Association (NBRA) who launched our ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “Social Security is indeed a Ponzi scheme” – Texas Governor Rick Perry, November 2010. Social Security is one of Americans’ most important safety-nets. The current Social Security program is a mainstay for women. Women are 52 percent of all adult beneficiaries, including retirees, the disabled, and the survivors of ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) When Barack Obama was elected as the president of the United States, black liberals dreamily believed that the numerous maladies in the black community would cease to exist. They believed that his election was indicative of a vigorous wind of political and social change that was blowing across the country. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) It appears that Fox News is at it again. The same network that has commentators like Eric Bolling, who asked why President Obama was “inviting so many hoods to the hizzy” referenced his 50th birthday party as a “Hip-Hop Barbecue.” President Obama’s party, which was private, served typical picnic ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Pat Buchanan, one of the most divisive political constructs of this century, made an interesting comment about President Barack Obama. In a recent interview with Rev. Al Sharpton, Buchanan referred to President Obama as Sharpton’s “boy.” The remark led to Sharpton responding with the kind of ferocity that the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The fight to increase the debt ceiling through the remainder of President Obama’s term has fueled more talk by black leadership of Republican and, more specifically, Tea Party racism. It is evident that for the first time in American history, citizens are berated for disagreeing with the president. When ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The recent release of data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics indicates that Black unemployment declined during the month of July. It had reached 16.2 percent and dropped over the course of the month to 15.9 percent. While the number is an improvement, it is still nearly double that ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Moments after President Obama put his John Hancock on the debt ceiling deal, a Northern California tea party member claimed that when he proudly wore his tea party t-shirt to his local grocery store a half dozen persons immediately asked him how to join. If one believes the legion ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Respected commentator Earl Ofari Hutchinson recently made a set of accurate remarks about the challenges that President Obama faces within the African American community. He cites a recent Washington Post/ABC News poll that shows that there are as many African Americans who are dissatisfied with the president’s performance as there are who ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies used to be one of the preeminent think tanks in Washington, DC. They focus on issues of particular concern to the Black community. Over the years I have participated in or hosted panels with them that were very substantive and informative. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Black America is in crisis. In a recent study, the National Urban League reported that almost all the economic gains made by African Americans over the last 30 years have been lost during the Great Recession. Black unemployment now stands at 16.2 percent, harkening back to 1982 when that ...