(ThyBlackMan.com) We descend from those who built this country AND its original inhabitants. We are Native Sons and Daughters in every sense of the word. We are largely descended from those who built this country and its original inhabitants. In the 1960s, with the rising tide of Black consciousness, it ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) They say the Devil’s greatest trick is to make people think he doesn’t exist. The media’s biggest scam has been to make us forget that in the Oval Office, right now, a Black man sits. Remember the hope and joy that flooded us all, not just African Americans, but ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Just in case you missed it, and you probably did because it was hardly ever mentioned, John McCain, Republican nominee in 2008, was not born in the US. Also, Mitt Romney, who is running for the 2012 Republican nomination, is the son of George Romney who ran for president ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) President Barack Obama finally did last week what so many of us have been waiting for him — and Bill Clinton and George W. Bush — to do. He stood up and spoke out about the threat to our constitutional democracy posed by Donald Trump. There is a very ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) During a television interview, a Republican lawmaker was once asked is there anything about then-President Barack Obama you liked. He quickly responded, by stating he liked the fact that Obama was a family man. The same sentiment was reinforced years earlier by former Senator John McCain during the 2008 ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Last Thursday, a unanimous New York jury found former President Donald Trump guilty of 34 felonies after deliberating less than 48 hours and observing Mr. Trump’s refusal to testify in his own defense. The jury found that the former president created false business records to conceal a $130,000 payment ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Respect has to be earned. So far, many within the Democratic Party feel Vice President Kamala Harris has not earned that respect. More than a dozen Democratic leaders in key states were candid about their assessment of Harris. The vice president’s tenure has been underwhelming, they said, marked by ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Many, if not most, African Americans are believed to be of partial Native American ancestry. William Loren Katz in Black Indians: A Hidden Heritage explored the roots of this Black and Native American admixture. Black contact with Native Americans goes back long before the Pilgrims arrived at Plymouth. In ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In a political landscape where party affiliations dictate much of the discourse, it comes as no surprise that Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s decision to indict former President Donald Trump on hush money charges is seen through the lens of partisanship. Some might argue that Bragg’s move is a ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) At the 1895 South Carolina Constitutional Convention Congressman George Tillman declared, “It is a scientific fact that there is not one full blooded Caucasian on the floor of this convention. Every member has in him a certain mixture of….colored blood.” Nonetheless, the delegates proceeded to ratify a series of ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The most common answer, “He was not blond and blue-eyed like they show him in movies and paintings. He was darker than that, like the people who live in North Africa today.” However, the average American today looks nothing like the average American 500 years ago when Columbus arrived. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) North American popular music is today heard all around the world. How and where did it originate, and how did it change over time? The music of a people is generated by those at the bottom of society, closest to the land. In the US that would be the ...