(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, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) This week, I had a heated (and somewhat friendly) debate with Melissa Harris-Perry and Rev. Al Sharpton. Both Harris-Perry and Rev. Sharpton seemed to take issue with an article I wrote openly questioning the motivations behind Melissa’s attacks on Cornel West. Melissa was a professor at Princeton alongside West, during which I assume ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) When Barack Obama was pondering a run for the presidency Michelle asked him what he thought he could accomplish. He replied,“The day I take the oath of office, the world will look at us differently. And millions of kids across this country will look at themselves differently. That alone ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) A recent Gallup poll found that 47 percent of all Americans oppose raising the debt ceiling. Only 19 percent support raising the ceiling past its current $12.1 trillion dollar limit. The remainder of us say we don’t know enough about the debt ceiling to have an opinion. That’s part of our ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) If Newt Gingrich was planning to send GOP voters a message that he’s a different kind of politician who won’t just say anything to get elected, he did a horrible job of driving that point home this week. After making a so-called verbal gaffe on NBC’s “Meet the Press” ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) What GOP presidential contender Herman Cain lacks in political experience, he likes to say, he makes up for with decades’ worth of success in corporate America. He climbed the corporate ladder at the Pillsbury Company, chaired the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, and rescued the failing Godfather’s Pizza ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Princeton University professor Cornel West’s silly, shoot-from the lip slur of President Obama as a black puppet predictably got the headline that he knew it would for two reasons. The first is that the slur came not from the professional Obama baiters, Sarah Palin, Limbaugh, and Michelle Bachman, Tea ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) First it was government rule by more than a dozen unelected and congressionally unapproved czars who subverted industry management and the financial system trying to prop up previously ill conceived housing policies and banking greed. Then it was a nontransparent health care plan which bypassed the right of review ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) If the current crop of declared GOP presidential contenders is the party’s field of dreams for 2012, we’re in real trouble. Reviewing the line up thus far, Ron Paul, Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum, Herman Cain, Tim Pawlenty, the group has the charisma factor of a ball of ...