(ThyBlackMan.com) I really don’t care whether or not Marilyn Davenport resigns from the Orange County Central Committee for emailing a picture of President Barack Obama’s face on the body of a baby chimpanzee.  I’m not a Republican, I’m not planning on joining the Republican Party anytime soon, and to be ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) President Obama has a problem, a very serious one.  The president’s problem is what I would call “The Great Black Disconnect.” This divide is the place where black America’s love and appreciation for the Obamas disconnects from the intense economic suffering of the African American community.  Like a festering ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) If you asked people last week what was weighing heavily on the president’s mind, many would have guessed jobs, the economy, our budget deficit, Libya or perhaps even unnecessary distractions like Donald Trump and the birthers. But virtually no one would have imagined that our Commander-in-Chief was dealing with ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Osama bin Laden’s death is obviously a boost to President Obama’s legend, and also apparently greatly helps his reelection bid. But the world should wait a minute before accepting all bin Laden reports as hard facts. At the time of this writing, no body had been seen, no autopsy  ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) In a shocking new revelation, Al-Qaeda has confirmed the death of Osama bin Laden.   In a statement released on the group’s forums, the organization gave praise to bin Laden, and also threatened action against the United States and their allies.  Finally, they encouraged Pakistani citizens to “rise up ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Just when you thought they were “piling on” President Barack Obama on issues of little or no consequence…namely the birth certificate issue, the reversal of the President’s fortunes continue to show why he won the presidential election of 2008. He’s just flat out smarter than they are and he ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Of course all the talk this week has been of the killing of Osama bin Laden in Pakistan by the elite Navy SEAL Team 6.  I was hoping, at least in the U.S., that this event would allow America to come together, if only for a moment, and reflect ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Osama bin Laden has been captured and killed. This information shot across my computer screen while I was working on transcribing a recent interview. At first I thought, okaaay, this is some kind of spam or joke. But when the following message indicated that the President would be addressing ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) With the killing of Osama Bin Laden, a collective sigh of relief can be heard from the Black neighborhoods of Los Angeles and Detroit to the Muslim communities of Harlem and downtown Manhattan – not necessarily because a terrorist attack was feared in these locales – but rather because ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) On August 28, 2008 Barack Obama accepted the Democratic nomination for president exactly 45 years to the day from Martin Luther King’s “I Have A Dream” speech. The Civil War and the Civil Rights Movement ended exactly 100 years apart, in 1865 and 1965 respectively. The most important speech ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) It seems that some Black people have suddenly become one issue voters.  I’ve been voting for a lot of years, and I have seen Black people vote for the lesser of two evils without complaining.  I’m from Louisiana, so much of my life the lesser of two evils was ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) On Sunday evening, in the minutes after the official announcement of Bin Laden’s death at the hands of American Special Forces, I began receiving  two kinds of  phone calls. One genre came from my media junkie friends,  ever eager to gab about the social  significance of any news considered ...