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(ThyBlackMan.com) Mike Rowe has been on a lonely mission. For two decades, he has been raising the alarm. Rowe has been warning anyone who would listen that our skills gap in the trades was widening to a chasm so large that the economic effect on U.S. manufacturing companies, in particular auto and steel industries but also defense, construction and energy sectors, was going to be nothing short of catastrophic. Few […]

(ThyBlackMan.com) When workers scraped Donald Trump’s name off the Donald Trump and John F. Kennedy Performing Arts Center, they should have kept going. They should have taken Kennedy’s name off as well and restored the building to its original, simple title, the National Culture Center. After President Kennedy was assassinated in November 1963, Congress renamed the center after him. The New York International Airport, charmingly referred to as Idlewild, suddenly […]

(ThyBlackMan.com) “This is an economic engine, not just for the South Side of Chicago … most certainly here, but it’s going to be an engine for the city and the region. It’s going to be a beacon of hope to the world at a time where I think we can all use a little hope.” – Valerie Jarrett At a moment when a sitting president squanders resources on hollow symbols of personal […]

(ThyBlackMan.com) Delivery operations sit at the intersection of customer experience and cost control. They directly shape service levels, while accounting for one of the largest cost components in modern supply chains. For carriers, 3PLs, and last-mile operators, understanding how to buy delivery routes that generate sustainable revenue without expanding fleet assets unnecessarily is a strategic growth decision, not a tactical one. E-commerce volumes continue to rise, and last-mile delivery represents […]

(ThyBlackMan.com) This world will end, we know not when, but it will end as surely as it began. In fact, for that very reason, if no other reason was possible, it will surely end. Everything that has a beginning, has also an end. The end will come, not because science told us so. Scientists are enormously disappointing when trying to predict things of eternal significance, and they are hopelessly adrift, […]

(ThyBlackMan.com) A brother does not always need more weight on his shoulders. Sometimes he needs a porch, a fishing pole, a good book, and a long walk back to himself. That may sound too simple for this loud age, but simple things have saved plenty of men. A rocking chair after supper. A slow Saturday morning with no phone buzzing. Crickets talking out near the tree line. Coffee in a […]

(ThyBlackMan.com) A Black father’s greatest flex is not what he owns, what he drives, or how many people praise him, but whether his children can look around and know he is still there. That may not sound flashy to folks chasing noise, but ask any grown person still healing from an empty chair at the table. Ask somebody who remembers waiting by a window for a car that never turned […]

(ThyBlackMan.com) There is a big cry for “Tolerance” in our society and in fact across the globe today. This term is especially used and brought out to parade around when the topic of discussion turns to spiritual matters. But when I hear the word and read the funny looking bumper stickers (you know the ones that spell out the word with all kinds of religious symbols), I find myself asking […]

(ThyBlackMan.com) Karmelo Anthony should have walked away. If he had, he would not have killed. He would not have been arrested and charged with first degree murder. He would not have been defended by, prosecuted by, judged by, and convicted by non-Blacks. He would certainly not be facing thirty-five years behind bars. It would have been no insult or affront to his “manhood” if he had had the discipline, smarts, […]

(ThyBlackMan.com) I’m not one to generally quote Senate Majority Leader John Thune as my authority on Cabinet appointees, but when it came to Bill Pulte — the housing chief with no national security experience who was President Donald Trump’s first choice for Director of National Intelligence — he was right to express concern. Pulte has no business in that job. The only reason he was appointed in the first place is […]