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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 the communities we serve.  We urge you and all Americans to take the coronavirus vaccine as soon as it is available to you.  Here is how we made the decision to take the coro...

ThyBlackMan.com) The Richard Pryor Show ran for four episodes in late 1977 on NBC. Pryor is a comedian that many should know similar to Redd Foxx and Flip Wilson—Black comedians who popped in the 1970s or had sitcoms at the time. I brought up this show for one reason. Pryor ran controversial skits on all four episodes with one of them being “Black Death.” Now, I’m not talking about heavy metal cult legends This was Pryor parodying hard rock and shock rock bands of the time. In the lat...

Jan. 6: The worst of days for Donald Trump & Trumpists. January 7, 2021 by Staff   ThyBlackMan.com) President Donald Trump, it turns out, was being quite literal when he told us Jan. 6 would be “wild.” And so Wednesday was, but it was also disastrous for the party and the movement Trump has led for the last five years. Wednesday, the defeats of Sens. Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue in Georgia’s runoff elections were confirmed. This translates into the GOP losing the Senate for the next...

synergy” between “ inside and outside” rejectionists that many feared. It is precisely the kind of chaos that Trump wanted. Almost every Republican has been playing with fire for years, months, and weeks, and those who orchestrated today’s obstruction on the floor of the House were lighting new matches. At least some of them knew exactly what they were doing. All of them are responsible. Homeland Security and the National Guard are yet nowhere to be seen—a most curious delay. The Pres...

Everywhere you look, Republicans make themselves out as victims.

ThyBlackMan.com) As with Part 1, I continue my “ Ain’t Nothing Like The Old School” series where I write about some of my favorite memories from my childhood years and not all my childhood memories were memorable ones either. During my childhood days in my old neighborhood, there used to be a corner store called “Mr. Joe’s Corner Store” that was about at least a 5 minute walk from my old house. I remember my grandma would often give me money whenever I asked because I absolutely lov...

( ThyBlackMan.com) Joe Biden actually made one believable statement during a virtual appearance on Dick Clark’s “New Year’s Rockin’ Eve” show. Although the Biden‘s confetti cannon failed to blast off, Joe promised that the U.S. will “come back stronger” in the new year. Regrettably for Joe (but not the rest of us), it won’t be under a Biden presidency. There is ample evidence that the 2020 election was massively corrupt and involved overseas actors working in concert with our...

Impeachment The 1619 Project From the removal of confederate monuments, to Major League Baseball admittance of the Negro Leagues into the sport’s official record book, to the President-Elect making racial equity one of the pillars of his upcoming administration, these actions owe a debt to the 1619 Project.  If nothing else, it forced recognition of a complete “warts and all” re-telling of American history. Journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones came up with the idea for The New York Times’ 16...

( ThyBlackMan.com) Since November 3, not a second has gone by that I haven’t gotten a frantic, pleading, imploring email from first, Joe Biden. Then after that: Kamala Harris, the Democratic National Committee, the slew of flip Georgia Blue Committees and groups, and the two Democratic senatorial candidates, Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock. They want money, money, and more money. Their pitch is that practically the fate of the Republic rides on them winning the Georgia senate races. The other ...

ThyBlackMan.com) Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie begins her  New York Times review of “A Promised Land” with this sentence, “Barack Obama is as fine a writer as they come.” This was, I am sure, music to Obama’s ears. As one commenter on the Washington Post review deadpanned, “Obama may have been the first president, who became president, so he would have material for a memoir.” Throughout his life, Barack Obama has openly aspired to be a writer. He has crafted his persona as much arou...