(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 ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) It would have been real nice if I could have in good conscience stayed out of the entire Herman Cain for president dialog. Being asked a direct question regarding his candidacy and whether I could support him blew that whole idea out of the water. Since I am not ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) GOP presidential contenders Michele Bachmann and Newt Gingrich figured out yet another ploy to knock President Obama. Blame him for the near Great Depression level of joblessness among blacks, especially young black males. Both made the claim in their talks to the Republican Leadership Conference. Gingrich got so carried ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The Michigan parole board agreed on Friday to release former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick from prison. Kilpatrick had spent more than a year behind bars after violating the terms of his probation. He is set to be out no earlier than July 24, according to a spokesman for the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) When Osama bin Laden was captured and killed earlier this year, the resounding call throughout the nation was to bring our troops back home immediately. Wednesday night, the president responded. Committing to a withdrawal of 10,000 troops by the end of this year, and another 20,000 by the end ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) It appears that Republican Presidential candidate Herman Cain is offended because Jon Stewart mocked him on his television show. He even said that Stewart attacked him because he is black. Cain, hearing that Stewart ridiculed the fact that he said that he wouldn’t sign bills longer than three pages, had ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Republican presidential contender Mitt Romney wasted no time in intimating that it was politics more than necessity that prompted President Obama’s cautious phased drawdown of US forces in Afghanistan. Romney’s gentle knock that it was politics not pragmatism of Obama was tame compared to other GOP critics who accused ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Fox News has always been the enemy to many on the left. The place where “fair and balanced news” is often tilted like a broken pinball machine. Where talking point memos are created as marching orders for conservative America. A network that we assume to be evil, yet what ...