(ThyBlackMan.com) President Obama can probably recite this line in his sleep. Be bold, and rip a page from Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal playbook: institute Works Project Administration and Civilian Conservation Corp.-type programs. They would put tens of thousands of jobless people back to work, pump up consumer spending, stave off ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Compromise yes; but an agreement to spending cuts, cuts that would impact Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, Without Any Revenues from closing tax loopholes for corporate jet owners, carried interest of hedge fund managers, and oil subsidies, NO! Speaker Boehner’s plan is a rejection of a balanced shared sacrifice ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In early 2001, America’s economic future was rosy: Our government was sitting on a massive budget surplus, and the Congressional Budget Office predicted that the next 10 years would carry our nation down the path of seemingly endless prosperity. This was a good time for President George W. Bush ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Editor’s note: Samuel Newby, chairman of the Florida Assembly of Black Republicans, wrote the following letter to Reince Priebus, chairman of the Republican National Committee and David Bitner, chairman of the Republican Party of Florida. I wanted to share my very deep concerns on the extremely negative feedback and ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The speedy apprehension, public identification and incriminating right wing, white supremacist rants of alleged Norwegian mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik partially doused the red hot fire building to launch yet another anti-Muslim witch hunt. The operative word is partially, because despite the steadily mounting evidence that Breivik’s anti-Muslim hatred ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Watching five members of the House Women’s Caucus unleash their fury at Rep. Allen West for telling Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz to “shut the heck up” was comical. Their press conference reminded me of a Saturday Night Live sketch. One couldn’t help but laugh when Rep. Jackie Speier excoriated West ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Let me preface this first by saying I am no economist, but I was blessed in the 10th grade to learn economy from my teacher Dr. Moyer. He was my home room teacher also. Now I attempt to read anywhere from 20 to 30 newspapers around the world to ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Article in response to; Allen West A True Gentleman. Got to count to ten and say a couple of “Woosahs” before my pressure goes sky high. Just had my eyes completely offended reading drivel posted by a (self-hating) black, GOP(operative). The only thing that is worse than a self ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Disagreement can be a healthy exercise if it is done in a way that stimulates thinking and provokes individuals to reconsider their perspectives in light of hearing alternative arguments. When varying points of view are debated passionately, and opposing sides are forced to listen, it can enlarge public understanding ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Florida Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who is also Democratic National Committee chair, suggested that the nasty email she got from her state’s Republican counterpart Allen West, responding to her attack on him in the House of Representatives, resulted from him being “under pressure.” Of course, Allen West is under ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I wrote to you recently about the scheduled meeting today between President Barack Obama the presidents of the NAACP and Urban League. Marc Morial and Ben Jealous got together with the president in a situation that is eerily similar to the meeting the three had with Rev. Al Sharpton ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) As the two supposed premier civil rights groups gather this week and next for their annual conventions (the N.A.A.C.P and the National Urban League, respectively), I want to challenge their agendas and then pose a few questions for them to answer. When civil rights are discussed in the media, ...