(ThyBlackMan.com) Rather than responding to the misery of the millions of unemployed by articulating the rationale for additional stimulus, Obama and the Democrats have cowered in the face of the Conservative’s demand for draconian cuts in government spending. Obama is blithely touring the country visiting businesses he believes illustrate how ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) It’s tempting to simplify and view Washington DC as the lair of three different types of people – Democrats, Republicans, and now the ever-growing Tea Party faithful. Pundits and political scientists are prone to slide the actors of this political drama into these three columns. When you know where ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) It is hard to understand politics if you are hung up on reality. Politicians leave reality to others. What matters in politics is what you can get the voters to believe, whether it bears any resemblance to reality or not. Not only among politicians, but also among much of ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) As the season of presidential politics 2012 unfolds, I’m struck by similarities between today and the tumultuous period in our history that led up to the election of Abraham Lincoln and then on to the Civil War. So much so that I’m finding it a little eerie that this ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The National Newspaper Association took advantage of what some expected to be a major prize fight between Cornel West and Rev. Al Sharpton. The group referred to their gathering at the annual convention of the National Newspaper Publishers Association as “The Showdown,” letting the world know that they expected ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Whenever you take a look at a bad law that is on the books, or a policy that the government has put into place, you can bet that someone paid for that. And in this most horrid of political seasons, you’d better believe that attached to each deplorable piece ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Wall Street and the auto industry bailout, healthcare reform, Iraq and Afghanistan, the “birthers,” the Tea Party, Rush Limbaugh, Fox News, immigration, 9.1% (16% real) unemployment, “shellacking” 2010 Midterm Congressional elections, civil unions, same-sex marriage, al Qaeda, bin Laden, renewal of the Patriot Act, continued rising tide of home ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In 2008 this country was in a crisis, and we came together and worked tirelessly to bring in leadership to steer us through treacherous, scary times. Today, we are at a crossroads in the road to recovery from that crisis and as we head toward the election of 2012, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) More than 40 years ago, both political parties (Democratic and Republicans) made strategic decisions that are still being felt today. In the 1960s, the Republican Party formally adopted the “Southern Strategy.” The Southern Strategy was a deliberate strategy by the Republican Party of the 1960s concocted to win elections ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The Bible is filled with characters who started out on shaky ground – Paul, David and Solomon, among them – before being transformed into epic figures. But it seems that Black leaders who dare to criticize President Obama don’t get second chances. Instead, they are the object of widespread ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) What good is it in having a Black president who won’t discuss eliminating the scourge of racism? Isn’t it time Black Americans ask why the U.S. isn’t participating in the latest round of World Conferences Against Racism? Of all the racist policies that exist in the world today, why ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Governor Rick Perry will you please run for president in 2012 and end the media’s incessant commentary on “the weak line up of GOP candidates” to challenge Obama? As Newt Gingrich’s candidacy “burns,” Mitt Romney is haunted by Obamneycare, and Jon Huntsman looks like a squishy RINO, conservatives need ...