(ThyBlackMan.com) For a presidential candidate that claims race is meaningless when it comes to his candidacy, GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain sure takes great delight in rubbing race in the faces of his white conservative backers every chance he gets. He opened his speech at the recent Republican Leadership Conference ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Give conservatives credit: They have a loud echo chamber. It usually begins with a lie or, at best, a clever distortion, and the rest of the right-wing crowd are immediately off to the races. The most recent example is the assertion that President Obama made the economy worse. That ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Attorney Barbara Arnwine, leader of the DC based Lawyer’s Committee for Civil Rights Under Law is on a mission. She wants to make sure that every citizen has the right to vote. On its face, it seems like a retro mission, since the right to vote has long been ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Republican Presidential Candidate Herman Cain has announced that he doesn’t appreciate the idea of being labeled an “African American.” During an interview with Bloomberg, Cain said that he prefers to be called an “American,” stating that the word “African” on the front of his racial identity limits him and ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Every Democrat from the White House down screamed loudly for New York Representative Anthony Weiner to resign, and he finally did. But it’s not a Democrat that’s breathing the biggest sigh of relief at Weiner’s downfall. It’s Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. There was much talk a year ago ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The only thing that we all know for sure, is that relevant is REAL. We talk about “keepin it real” but keeping it real is only important if it is relevant to what we’re talk in about or what we’re trying to resolve. The Republican and Tea Party candidates ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) While the media’s attention is embroiled in the seemingly endless Rep. Weiner scandal, the landscape of American democracy is changing in the most troubling and systematic ways imaginable. After years of suffering under the atrocious Jim Crow laws of ‘separate but equal,’ the people rallied behind those that were ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Co-authored by Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. 40 years ago today, President Richard Milhous Nixon declared America’s “War on Drugs.” This failed war continues even today to have a devastating and debilitating impact on the lives of millions of Americans. We add our voices to the growing number of ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) As an African-American, there is not a single day that I don’t turn on my television and/or radio and personally witness racism against African-Americans. The United States Department of Justice, The Republican Party, its media wing Fox News, and conservative talk radio in combination are a functioning terrorist organization. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Between 2004 and 2007 I was a spokesperson and liaison for minority media at the Republican National Committee, and I routinely fielded questions from black journalists about what the Bush White House and Republicans were going to do about the “alarmingly high” 9% unemployment rate for African-Americans. People were ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I am a proud graduate of Morehouse College. I am among a distinguished group of alumni who include Martin Luther King, Jr., Edwin Moses, Spike Lee, Samuel Jackson, Maynard Jackson and current Republican Presidential Candidate Herman Cain. It is unfortunately, most African Americans will not give Cain any objective ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) GOP Presidential nominee Mitt Romney was asked during the 2008 GOP presidential primary campaign what he thought about diversity. He gave the stock answer that he supported it in government and corporations. A little later Jay Leno in a late night interview asked him whether his administration would be ...