(ThyBlackMan.com) The Rev. Jesse Jackson is going to intervene in the case of Troy Davis, a man whose death penalty case has received international attention. Davis is facing the death penalty after being accused of shooting and killing a Savannah, Ga police officer over 20 years ago. Since that time, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Asked about his own position as the most prominent African American in the Republican party these days, Herman Cain is fond of saying he refuses to “stay on the Democratic plantation like he’s supposed to” or that he refused to drink the liberal Kool-Aid. Asked why more African Americans ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The enshrined political article of faith is that presidents and presidential candidates rise and fall on the economy. There’s much to be said for that. And presumptive frontrunner for the 2012 GOP presidential nomination Mitt Romney is loudly claiming that President Obama has failed on the economy. Polls show ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Across the nation, Republican state legislatures and governors are pushing the idea of requiring that voter’s present picture identification at the voting booth. The GOP is rewriting voting laws in at least thirteen states thus far and more may be on the horizon. These efforts are being implemented under ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Do you remember the highway signs that bragged about stimulus money being used to put America to work through “recovery and reinvestment“? “Thousands of contractors who got stimulus money to do such things as build roads and provide social services owe more than $750 million in back taxes, a ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) While many questioned whether Barack Obama was “Black enough,” in the 2008 elections 96 percent of African-Americans cast their vote for him. Today, the question has re-emerged. In a recent critique, African-American scholar Cornel West stated that Obama is “culturally White.” This statement has created new ways to evaluate ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) This post is specially dedicated to my thousands of admiring readers who are major political figures (you can’t prove otherwise). It’s time we had a grown-up talk. When Bill Clinton left office I thought it was finally safe for children to watch the news again. But clearly you folks need ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The country is in the crapper and the economic outlook for America is bleak. Our debt topped $14 trillion and in two short years, because Obama spent $4 trillion. That’s the same amount president Bush spent during his eight years in office. Unemployment is at 9% and will probably remain ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Canaries have been used to warn miners digging for coal underground of the danger of toxic gases. As long as the bird kept singing, the miners knew their air supply was safe. A dead canary signaled need for an immediate evacuation. There are valuable “canaries,” albeit, politically diverse, and ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) [Pardon My Rant] Recently Newt Gingrich announced his candidacy for President via his Twitter (@NewtGingrich, and then quickly made comments that got him in hot water. He stirred up some more controversy, something that he is known to do. In a speech to a friendly mostly Republican crowd in ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Radical conservative politicians want to slash city, county and state jobs — and undercut the economic security of African-American families, says this union official. When I was growing up in Cleveland, some of the most respected people in my neighborhood were the folks who worked for the city, county ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The images are jarring. Photos of children with signs saying “NAACP, drop the lawsuit” and “NAACP, unite us, don’t divide us.” Video clips of parents, teachers and community leaders urging the NAACP to put the education of children first and to stop supporting the status quo. It was so ...