(ThyBlackMan.com) Many Black Americans are not ready to take coronavirus vaccine. With all the confusion and misinformation about the disease and the vaccine, we are not surprised. As physicians in the community, we study information and make decisions that are in the best interests of our patients, our families, and ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) It looks as if African Americans cannot get any respite from racism irrespective of their education, stature and wealth. Most recently, a black doctor who had tested positive for Covid-19 accused the Indiana University North Hospital of racist treatment. Just a few days later, she died. The Hospital has ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) During the COVID pandemic, many of us have struggled with different challenges. But one that we have in common is the shifts that the quarantine has brought. These require balancing old responsibilities with new obligations, like ensuring our children’s education. And increased limitations on our time have strained another challenge related to the pandemic: our inability ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The Republican party has become the party of victims. It is led by the biggest “victim” of all, Donald Trump. Victimhood is an effective political ideology because it allows its holders to shunt off blame for their own culpability in having devastated the country, whether through presidential incompetence and ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Normal political order has broken down. The prescribed Congressional proceeding to confirm the presidential election results has been disrupted. The peaceful transfer of power has been subverted. The Capitol building has been taken over by violent protesters. Pence, Pelosi, and Grassley have been evacuated by Secret Service. All others ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) It was an only slightly surprising headline, in that the content was not so jarring based on the fact it was delivered by NBC News. “Gen Z Republicans See New Era For Party After Trump.” It sounds like a stirring tide of rebuttal is taking place in the electorate — that ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) If you live in Florida or Texas and you’re 65 or over, you can get in line for a COVID-19 vaccine at a mall, stadium or drive-thru center. You may have to wait for hours, but being in line is better than being in the dark. That’s where most ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) A week from today, Joe Biden will still be on his inexorable course to become the 46th president of the United States. Why, then, the hysteria that has suddenly gripped this city? The triggering event was the announcement by GOP Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri. Despite Leader Mitch McConnell’s ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) It seems that Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) did not get the message of the 2020 election. Her party lost almost every heavily contested race in the last election and the Democrats now have only a razor-thin majority in the U.S. House of Representatives. Instead of moving ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) She’s building from the ground up. Her self-esteem, confidence and a home. Physical, emotional and psychological abuse wrecks its victims and can produce pervasive trauma. That’s what’s on view in this well-crafted story about a survivor. A mom trying desperately to regroup with her two young daughters and escape ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) So, we spent a whole election on my side of the fence talking about, ‘We got to fight socialism.’ And now you’re going to throw a half-trillion dollars” with “absolutely no targeting” for earners hurt economically by the coronavirus? That’s Rep. Mark Amodei, R-Nev., talking about President Donald Trump‘s ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Injuries always come unannounced. You can’t do much about them except for getting yourself treated. It’s not easy but what’s more challenging is when a party is involved in your personal injury. It is a relief that you have insurance, but it’s no use when there is a case. ...