(ThyBlackMan.com) Last week, after a restful Thanksgiving, my family made a deliberate choice to #OptOutside on Friday. #OptOutside is a growing movement in which participating organizations and companies close their doors on Black Friday, give their employees a paid day off, and encourage all of us to embrace the serenity ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Red flags will always be there if you pay close enough attention. In the case of George Santos, the red flags were revealed long before his election but simply ignored by too many people. Former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy told reporters, “I always had a few questions about Santos’ ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) As of this writing, I am in LaFollette, Tennessee, at the home of my University of Tennessee Army ROTC classmate and friend retired Lieutenant Colonel Logan Hickman. It is military alumni reunion weekend on Rocky Top, which happens every five years. It is great to return to my alma mater and see ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “There’s no clearer indication that these rules are useless than the fact that they end up codifying Thomas’s outrageous behavior as ethically within bounds. According to the rules, not a single thing Thomas has done is a problem. Putting out a code of conduct that doesn’t restrain Thomas is ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) As we are approaching a month-and-a-half after the horrific events of October 7, in Israel by the terrorist organization Hamas; what we have come to learned so far among many things is that those who identify as Liberal Leftist are at a pinnacle point of their activism that they ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Because of the magnitude of what is happening in occupied Palestine, thousands and thousands of people rallied and marched in Washington, D.C. earlier this month in the largest pro-Palestine rally ever in the U.S. to call for an end to Zionist Israeli violence against the Palestinian people. It seems ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) It is been in the works since the beginning of the Ukraine vs Russia war for the Leftist Democrats under the leadership of Deviant Biden and Happy Feet Kamala to send our American children to fight a war against Russia in Europe, Iran in the Middle-East and China in ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) As a black, native Washingtonian, who’s family has lived in DC for several decades, I can relate to the most basic plight of displaced Palestinians. I have seen gentrification transform the once Chocolate City, with a thriving black middle class majority, to a predominately white, yuppy urban oasis, as ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In the 1960s and 1970s political scientists and social philosophers theorized and predicted that as Blacks, Latinxs and women obtained greater numbers of elected, managerial, policy and decision making positions the very fabric of American society would undergo a radical if not revolutionary transformation. These political scientists and social ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In these tumultuous times, our beloved United States finds itself at a crossroads of division, rife with political strife, cultural clashes, and social discord. It’s a challenging moment in history, one that begs for leadership that transcends the partisan bickering and personal animosities that have marred our recent political ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I have been following the news from Israel very closely since first learning of the horrifying attacks of Oct. 7. As someone who has traveled to the Holy Land on nearly two dozen occasions and seen the country from north to south, I was affected. But nothing has prepared me ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) This month’s election results should be a wakeup call to any politician who had been unsure of Americans’ desire for robust climate action and support for a green economy. In states and counties that are red, blue, and everywhere in between, voters favored forward-looking candidates who embraced both the ...