(ThyBlackMan.com) The death of George Floyd at the hands of four uniformed officers in Minneapolis in May, 2020 unleashed protests throughout the US and around the world. The protests denounced George Floyd’s death, proclaimed that Black lives mattered and called for an end to police criminality and lawlessness. Both the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Gun control is always a hot topic in the US. I’m convinced it will always be an election talking point, because our government never seems to come to an understanding that gun control is necessary. How many more shooting must happen; how many more schools need be shot up ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) After three weeks of chaos, the Republicans got their man. In a party-line vote, Republican Rep. Mike Johnson of Louisiana was finally elected speaker of the House, with Johnson receiving the votes of all 220 Republicans who cast a ballot while all 209 Democrats present voted for Hakeem Jeffries. During ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The Governor of Pennsylvania has decided to unilaterally implement a system of automatic voter registration that history has proven is filled with many documented problems. Without discussion, debate, an executive order, or the state legislature’s approval, Pennsylvanians will now be affected by a questionable way of preparing citizens to ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Jews and Arabs have been violently disputing over Middle East territory including Judea and Samaria for more than a century under the Ottoman Empire, the British mandate, in the Arab-Israeli War of 1948, 1956 Suez Crisis, 1967 Six-Day War, Yom Kippur War, the First and Second Intifadas, and the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I was raised in a time when the most important aspects of education were being able to think critically, to never accept any perspective without questioning and rigorous debate, and to love my community and country. Not anymore, because of the current direction of education posited by elite extreme ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) On Oct. 9, Hughes Van Ellis, who was one of the last three known survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, passed away at age 102. The story of the white supremacist mob violence that devastated Tulsa’s Black community is the kind of American history too few students learned ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The latest mass carnage this time in Lewiston Maine, once more brutally, heinously, and nightmarishly underscores one tormenting fact. Congress remains just as totally paralyzed as ever on passing any meaningful gun control legislation. Even when Democratic-controlled state legislatures in such states as California and New York pass tough ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) How do you know if your town or city has dead people voting in it? In the spirit of the season, let’s call them “Halloween voters.” If your town or city does not entirely abide by the National Voter Registration Act of 1993, it is more than likely leaving ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Ronald Reagan when he was an actor at the end of the General Electric Theater television series which he hosted would say democracy may not be the best form of government but all the others are worst. Apparently, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill had expressed a similar point of ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I was in the grocery store recently and had a women explain to me, for no apparent reason, that she doesn’t believe in racism. She wanted to convey that she didn’t look at color and feels the country would be better for it if we all took the same ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) It would be generous to say that the Republican Party is a chaotic manifestation of political madness. Eight miscreants toppled House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) and could not select a speaker for nearly two weeks. Indeed, at this writing, Republican leadership is still up in the air, and both former ...