(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 ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) On June 1st Kathy Hochul (D-NY) was sworn in as the newest member of Congress. She won her seat in a special election to fill the seat vacated by Republican Chris Lee in New York’s 26th District, pulling off what many consider to be the biggest political upset since ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Somewhere in a U.S. prison today, a young Black man sits behind bars counting down the years, months and days till he sees freedom. After spending the better part of his adolescence locked away for cocaine distribution, he has become hardened and likely more dangerous while his White cellmate ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Meet the next target of the “all-regulation-is-bad” crowd: school lunches. Our children face a devastating obesity crisis — and yet some Washington lawmakers are calling even the most commonsense moves to ensure them a healthier diet a “classic nanny-state overreach.” Really? Let’s look at what these simple, straightforward federal ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I have worked around 3 Republican presidents (Reagan, Bush, and Bush) and I can tell you for certain that one sure-fire way of learning a president’s priorities, is by who he agrees to spend time with (as in meetings). A president’s time is scheduled to the nth degree. So, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) He may not yet have the name recognition of Sarah Palin or Mitt Romney, but pizza magnate Herman Cain has something others in the Republican presidential field do not _ his race, and escalating buzz. Cain, an African-American entrepreneur with an impressive corporate resume, has come out of nowhere ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Last week was the 70th birthday of Bob Dylan, a.k.a. Bobby Zimmerman. His lyrics to “Blowin’ in The Wind,” like those from the Civil Rights anthem “We Shall Overcome,” were the signature cultural statements of the Peace and Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s… How many years can some ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Following Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu’s speech before the U.S. Congress, it was clear that there will be no peace process between the Israelis and the Palestinians. And maybe that’s not such a bad thing, to know where things really stand. In reality, the die was cast when the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) If Ronald Reagan was known as the actor who became a president, then perhaps Barack Obama should become known as the president who became an actor. For every facial movement evinced, every gesture of the hand, every word enunciated by the 44th president turns out to be a complete ...