(ThyBlackMan.com) The position of vice president is sometimes subject to more criticism than the president. Of course, that depends on the president and if the vice president is undermining the prez’s message or making their job harder. Mind you, this doesn’t work the other way around. The VP is expected ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I recently had a conversation with a friend I’ve known for over 20 years. We caught up about life and living…and while doing so she expressed a fear about how elections would affect our lives. Honestly, she fears for America, especially on the foreign front, should Trump ever sit ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) One of the best things about being a sports fan is that sports are an opportunity of some semblance of escapism. Seeing talented athletes perform on the court, field, or area of play at a high level can be jaw-dropping and remind adult sports fans of their childhood playing ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) There are two things that I feel embody the American free spirit. The first is based on its founding principles and the second is on common statements we all hear regularly. I carry around a pocket copy of the Constitution and Bill of Rights. In addition to these documents ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The timely public release by the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department of the body cam footage of the slaying of Niani Finlayson was widely held as a great step toward transparency in dubious police shootings. Finlayson was a young African American mother in Lancaster, California who called for police ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Looking backward over 2023 and looking forward to 2024 recalls ancient wisdom. Ecclesiastes: “What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.” Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr employed different phraseology: “The more things change, the more they stay the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The Statue of Liberty stands proudly in Upper New York Bay as a symbol of freedom and a welcoming beacon to the “huddled masses” and “those yearning to be free.” Originally conceived as an emblem of the friendship between the people of France and the United States, it is a ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Many of us go through the useless ritual of making New Year’s resolutions and proclaiming “out with the old.” Maybe that works for your eating habits or exercise routine, but 2023 news will be with us into 2024. From my perspective, these are the things we’ll be paying attention to ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) It is six years into Donald J. Trump’s second tenure as president. During his first tenure he served four years and with his current six years in office he is just three years short of matching President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s record of 13 years as president. After a tumultuous ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The Colorado Supreme Court has done what almost half a dozen state supreme courts haven’t done yet: It issued a ruling declaring that former President Donald John Trump is disqualified to run for president in Colorado in 2024 because he incited and was involved in an insurrection, namely the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) There were a lot of important economic stories over the past month. Inflation continued to drop. Unemployment stayed low. The Federal Reserve kept interest rates steady. The stock market rebounded. And consumers, who have never been better off, complained about the economy and took it out on Biden. But ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) All that any of us have to do is take a look at the real history of this land to see the truth. America was founded on illegal immigration, invasion, colonization, extermination and slavery. That is the ugly truth which many people are hoping you will forget. Yet since ...