(ThyBlackMan.com) The Urban League recently gathered for its State of Black America Conference to discuss issues and concerns that black Americans face across the United States. The conference is both respected and cherished by a community that continuously seeks those who can righteously advocate for the issues that matter the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) How black should the Congressional Black Caucus be? That might seem like a strange question, but it’s one the CBC has grappled with throughout its 40-year history. White Members of Congress have occasionally tried to join, but the group has remained firm: The CBC is for blacks only. Many ...
(ThyBllackMan.com) According to a recent survey conducted by YourBlackWorld.com, 27.3% of African American respondents claim that President Obama’s most recent actions in Libya have reduced their faith in his leadership ability. Roughly 20.8% of respondents claim that the Libyan intervention has increased their faith in Obama’s leadership. Equally interesting is that ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “More African American men are in prison or jail, on probation or parole than were enslaved in 1850, before the Civil War began,” according to Michelle Alexander, a law professor at The Ohio State University. Alexander is the author of an interesting new book called “The New Jim Crow: ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The decision to elevate the assault on Libya and its leader, Moammar Gadhafi, has some very chilling forecasts for normalizing relations with Muslims in America. Libya is involved in a civil war for which no vital American interests are at stake. Libya only controls two percent of the world’s ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In the last few weeks in particular, American foreign policy has never looked worse. To describe it as the “Keystone Cops of Diplomacy and War-Making” would be too charitable. The fault lies not just with President Barack Hussein Obama, our obsessively pro-Arab and pro-Muslim president, or Secretary of State ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I gave a speech at a church in upstate New York shortly after Barack Obama was elected President of the United States. During the service, the choir director took the liberty of changing the words from the song “We shall overcome,” to “We HAVE overcome.” I also remember hearing ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Ohio Congressman Dennis Kucinich didn’t stop at blasting President Obama on his Libya war policy recently in a meeting of ultra-liberal Congressional Democrats. He practically invited Congress to consider an impeachment discussion of Obama. Kucinich didn’t even stop there. He rammed the impeachment point home further in a follow-up ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) An associate of mine that I occasionally ride the train with alerted me to a startling report. He showed me an article that expounded on how President Obama talks down to his constituents. Particularly, the article pointed out how he’s disconnected with “blue-collared White Americans.” My friend and I ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) For years, this writer has tried to understand the mentality of African-Americans who choose to join the Republican Party. I long pondered the thought process of the Black Republican and considered that the choice to join the party was likely motivated by monetary interests. The GOP represents the Ole ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Real estate tycoon Donald Trump’s talk about a presidential bid is take your pick: a bad joke, a cheap publicity stunt, or the delusional raving of a guy with too much money, too much ego, and way too much time on his hands to stroke both. But Trump did ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Two of the tricks the U.S. government and its European (white) allies have employed when they want to find a cover for militarily intervening in another country are #1 – Demonize the leader of the country using a compliant media to make the person seem as if he is ...