(ThyBlackMan.com) Now I am no biblical scholar, but I can admit to reading the Bible as well as the teachings of Buddha from cover to cover. The reason I am writing this is based on what I isolated in a post last week regarding the West-Obama narrative. Now I basically ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Officials in the Obama administration are leaking all kinds of details from the “treasure trove” of secret information U.S. Special Forces seized from Osama bin Laden’s compound. They are reportedly doing so to demystify the dead al-Qaeda leader. But with the release of tidbits about his use of hair ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I have always wondered what was the importance and utility of Africana Studies Departments around the Nation, as well the utility of a doctorate in such a field. Over recent weeks I have come to the personal conclusion that there value in the grand scope of collective community betterment ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) This week, in the 26th district of New York, an outstanding precedent was established when Democrat Kathy Hochul took home the Congressional seat previously held by Rep. Chris Lee (R-NY). In one of the most conservative, Republican districts in the country, she defeated the opposition despite being heavily outspent. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) There is nothing new about the acrimonious debate between Al Sharpton and Cornel West. Historically, there has always been sharp, bitter divisions amongst Black leaders in America. Invariably, as now, it is over access to, and attitudes toward, the American power structure. For example, Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) House Assistant Democratic Leader Jim Clyburn, the highest-ranking African-American in Congress, on Wednesday blamed most of President Barack Obama’s political problems on racism. Clyburn, who’s from South Carolina and is a close ally of the president, offered his views in response to a question about Obama’s re-election prospects next ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Race baiting, headline chasing Princeton Professor Cornel West set off a firestorm of outrage among Obama supporters and defenders of hope and change, when he said Obama wasn’t culturally black. West suggested because Obama is more “a white man with black skin,” his policies have done nothing to help poor ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The name “Herman Cain” and the words “GOP presidential nominee” is a pitiable oxymoron. But the irrepressible talk show host and former Godfather Pizza CEO still thinks that he can stand the GOP on its head and get it to nominate him, an African-American, as its 2012 presidential standard ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) PRINCETON professor Cornel West has been embroiled in a controversy with President Obama over the past two weeks after calling him a “black mascot of Wall Street oligarchs and a black puppet of corporate plutocrats,” and criticizing his handling of black unemployment and lack of race-specific social policies. Implicit ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Down, down, down, that’s where Obama’s poll numbers are going and his presidency. According to a recent Ipsos survey, nearly 70% of Americans think the country is headed in the wrong direction. Another Zogby poll found 55% of Americans want to elect someone new in 2012. This past week ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The recent controversy ignited by Cornel West’s critique of President Barack Obama and subsequent critiques of Dr. West reveal a fundamental crisis in black leadership. Traditionally, African-American intellectuals and activists have encountered the office of the president as outsiders with a nuanced understanding and repertoire of tactics including electoral ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I am a huge fan of comedy of all kinds. I enjoy it all from sitcoms to stand up. Who doesn’t love to laugh? Before the election in 2008, comedian Steve Harvey put out a stand up set called “Still Trippin’”. Being the Steve Harvey fan that I am, ...