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(ThyBlackMan.com) I can’t wait for this election to be over already. My great uncle used to say nothing in government happens by accident. It’s all been by design. He also would say our feathers are slowly being plucked until we can no longer fly. I took that he was using it as a metaphor to suggest what happens when a person gradually loses their power, freedom, or ability. Seeing that […]

(ThyBlackMan.com) Now I don’t know about you, but for sure I’m so ready for hearing some truth! Have you been listening to certain people who just say stuff that’s not even close to true. Truth telling isn’t even in their vocabulary. Let’s just check out J.D. Vance, who was calling the man he’s now working for Hitler. J.D. is now supporting him with a straight face, lying for him! We […]

(ThyBlackMan.com) I officially retired from the US Army on 1 August 2004 and vividly recall sitting and watching the 2004 Democratic National Committee convention. At that convention, a fella named Barack Hussein Obama gave the keynote speech. He had just become a State Senator in Illinois. Angela and I listened to a rousing, emotional, rhetorical speech using the southern pastoral iambic pentameter rhythm and said to each other…this is the […]

(ThyBlackMan.com) As a kid, I followed the news. I even used to think the word itself was an acronym for North, East, West, and South. My uncle was the Minister of Information for the Black Panther Party of Self-Defense Memphis Chapter. One of the many political issues they confronted head-on was abortion. The Black Panther Party expressed concerns about how abortion was being marketed to Black women. They feared it […]

(ThyBlackMan.com) Former British Prime Minister during World War II once told me, “To each there comes in their lifetime a special moment when they are figuratively tapped on the shoulder and offered the chance to do a very special thing, unique to them and fitted to their talents. What a tragedy if that moment finds them unprepared or unqualified for that which could have been their finest hour.” These are […]

(ThyBlackMan.com) During TV ads today, there is a noticeable type of endorser that is new among athletes that did not have access a decade ago. It is becoming common to see college basketball or college football stars in TV ads endorsing products and the well-known phrase, “Name, Image, and Likeness” are the reason for that. Name, Image, and Likeness, also known as NIL, “are the three elements that make up […]

(ThyBlackMan.com) The day the Democratic party, during the Clinton administration embarked upon an official policy of underreporting the unemployment rates of all American workers, professional, blue collar, union, and working-class Americans, they created economic problems. There are unintended negative ripple effects, we are feeling today, because the Clinton administration tampered with our unemployment rates. The good news is, for us and VP Kamala Harris, it can be corrected. She has been said, by none other […]

(ThyBlackMan.com) In the midst of our and other ongoing struggles for liberation, freedom, justice and other indispensable and indivisible goods in the world, I turn constantly to the sacred texts of our ancestors for grounding and guidance, for constantly deepening insight, urgently needed answers, and uplifting and liberating inspiration. This is especially important to me, to Us, in these difficult, dangerous and demanding times in which evil seems ascendant, shape […]

(ThyBlackMan.com) In every election cycle, the weight of our decisions at the ballot box are real, but not always as apparent as they should be. Our voting decisions ripple out to sculpt the societal, economic, and environmental landscape in which our children and grandchildren will live. As we edge closer to casting our votes, it is crucial to grasp not just the immediate impacts of our choices. We must also […]

(ThyBlackMan.com) The music world has been left in shock following the tragic death of Liam Payne, beloved member of the internationally renowned boy band One Direction. Payne, who rose to fame as part of the group formed on the British reality show The X Factor, passed away at the age of 31. The singer’s untimely demise occurred after a fall from three floors at a hotel in Buenos Aires, Argentina. […]