(ThyBlackMan.com) It has been said that “all is fair in love and war”. My position? In most cases war is unnecessary and differences can likely be resolved with mature people yet without the devastation. Unfortunately, most political leaders, military leaders, and the general public think differently so they want to ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Earlier this month, I stood alongside my colleagues as we announced the reintroduction of the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, legislation aptly named after the stalwart civil rights champion and my dear departed friend. I often recount the story of how and when I first met John ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I have concluded that the most important emotion in our world is not love; it is empathy. Growing up in church, I frequently heard that love is a verb rather than a noun, which is to say that actions must accompany attestation. If we actually love someone, we will ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) My feigning of ignorance is a tool frequently used to avoid discussions regarding Race. Yes, believe it or not, I frequently avoid discussions of racial matters. The reasons for such avoidance are listed below. I don’t think that the person I am talking with has a firm understand of ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The 2024 election could end with either an 82-year-old Democrat getting a second term or a 77-year-old Republican getting a second term. Well, that is if Trump isn’t still dealing with legal stuff during important campaigning time. After all, constituents want to see the people they’re going to vote ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) News outlets are reporting that Israel has surrounded Gaza by land and sea in an historic blockade as it prepares to launch a living hell on Hamas, the governing body of Gaza. The US and other nations sit paralyzed as they give silent witness to what is expected to ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) A day after the massacre by Hamas of Israeli civilians and the taking of Israeli hostages, I asked this question on my Facebook Page: “What should Blacks say and do about the conflict?” Some respondents denounced the attacks by Hamas. Other denounced the continued blockade of Gaza as “inhumane” treatment by ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) President Joe Biden and the United States have been forceful in their support for Israel in the aftermath of last weekend’s terrorist attacks by Hamas. Biden’s remarks were powerful and unequivocal. His condemnation of Hamas was clear-sighted and forthright. There was no moral equivalence between Israel and Hamas. His message ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) For years, historians have wondered what would have happened had Sen. Robert F. Kennedy not been assassinated. Kennedy, at the time of his death, was able to forge an unlikely political alliance between working-class whites and Blacks. As historian Jeff Shesol wrote, “RFK recognized—and shared, by the time of ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) It is widely understood that we as a country are in fact governed under a system called a Republic; in long form a Constitutional Federated Representative Republic – a form of a Democracy. However, we have a political faction that insists on justifying their intrepidness in usurping our foundational ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “We are not aware of any other case in which a state legislature — faced with a federal court order declaring thorat its electoral plan unlawfully dilutes minority votes and requiring a plan that provides an additional opportunity district — responded with a plan that the state concedes does ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) There’s an African proverb it goes “When you want to measure the wellness of a community you ask: ‘How are the children doing?’” In America, the answer is very clear on how it treats its children. It is the same answer as it treats its middle aged and seniors. ...