(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 ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Each year during the month of October, the National Faith and Blue Weekend is held in communities throughout the nation. The purpose of this community engagement initiative is to use local faith-based organizations as a means to develop relationships between police department officials, residents, businesses and community groups. The ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) If there is one thing I despise, it is hypocrisy. Boy, howdy, there is a bunch of that going around. The leftists in America, aided by their complicit media, should be charged with incitement to violence from the incidents we witnessed last week. How fast were these gullible, useful ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) When we turn on the news it seems to be overrun with bad news. There seems to be death, war, famine, and disease at every turn. Very rarely do we get to see good news that’s abundant and reminds us that life is good. If one believes in God, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I still can’t shake the memory of that Saturday evening a few years ago when I was driving back from shopping on Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills. I hadn’t gotten a mile from the shopping area when I was flagged over by a Beverly Hills officer. I was not ...
(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) Psalm 8:3-5 3 When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, 4 what is mankind that you are mindful of them, human beings that you care for them? 5 You have made them a little lower ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Many of you may have seen the childhood film Pinocchio which had a little wooden boy listening to a “conscience” depicted as a little bug named Jiminy Cricket. This cricket was to lead Pinocchio in the right ways so that he would not get into trouble. Of course, Pinocchio ...