(ThyBlackMan.com) Romney is the pace horse in the media’s manufactured vision of the race for the Republican presidential nomination. And from time to time someone edges up from the pack to challenge him and get on center stage. Right now it is Gingrich. Before that it was Herman Cain, before ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) A quiet economic storm, or more likely a hurricane, has been brewing for several years now, and it’s gaining more strength every day. After the Dot.Com bubble burst in the early 1990’s, we were shocked. Then along came the housing bubble and folks started losing their primary assets: Their ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The Herman Cain campaign complained that the candidate is the target of a “high tech lynching,” the very claim made by Clarence Thomas 20 years ago during his Supreme Court confirmation hearings when Anita Hill charged him with sexual harassment. Before that few people had ever even heard of ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) First came slavery. When it ended there was a brief period in the sun called Reconstruction, followed by the long dark night of the Jim Crow Laws and legalized segregation in which we were forced into second class status, and now comes the New Jim Crow Mass Incarceration in ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) How many times have you heard that the War on Drugs is just a cover for a sustained attack on our community that ferociously gobbles up our youth into the rapidly expanding prison industrial complex? Perhaps you think this a gross exaggeration. It is not. Here is the proof. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Talking Dollars and Making Sense is exactly what Brooke Stephens does in her book of the same name in which she shows us how to make more, save more, invest more and build wealth for ourselves, our children and our children’s children. One-by-one she lists, and then shatters, the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) What does the word “minority” mean? Why do we call ourselves “minorities?” And why do Latinos and Asians also do the same? Minority means “less than 50%.” Majority means “more than 50%.” If whites are but 20% of the world’s population, how then can Blacks, Latinos, Asians and Native ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) To criticize or not to criticize the administration, that is the question. Is it better to keep quiet about their policies or give voice to any concerns that you may have in the hope they will correct them? Conversations like this are going on all over Black America. . . ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Will we see a Herman Cain v. Barack Obama contest in 13 months time? We might. Here is why. . . Many claim that the Republican Party’s base, particularly its Tea Party wing, is deeply prejudiced. Those thus labeled loudly complain that such charges are more than unfair. Well, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) (This piece was written years ago, but it is just as true today as it was then, if not more so.) …. Yo, Dog, like I was saying- You talking to me? …. Who else? Go ‘head. ….. Yeah, so like I was saying, Dog- You can’t be talking to me. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Make no mistake about it. This election boils down to a contest between Ron Paul and Barack Obama. None of the other Republicans is different enough, or powerful enough, to entice the country to change horses in midstream. Yes, they sound different, but would any of them end the wars ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) When the demonstrators were in Tahrir Square in Egypt, what did we get? Non-stop coverage on the evening news, the morning news, and on cable news we heard about it 24-7. They have been marching on Wall Street for a month, and all across the country people are now following suit. But ...