ThyBlackMan.com- Five Ways To Lighten Salad Dressings.(ThyBlackMan.com) Salads are an excellent choice for a healthy, balanced diet, and we commend you if you’ve made such an addition to your daily menus. However, if your salad is filled with fatty dressing, a salad can quickly turn into a diet villain. But never fear! There are ways to stick to low-calorie dressing and [...]Staff
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The 99% Tax Plan (with schedules)
This applied structure would certainly result in increased economic demand and increased employment due to a higher number of competitive small and middle-sized firms whom do most hiring in America. This plan levels the playing field for the 99% of us who might have an idea and want to reap the benefits of it for ourselves. The middle-size business tax rate should allow decided by economist for maximum economic competitive globally and taxed on a flat basis as this model does for middle-income American earners. Small and large business should be taxed progressively in accordance with the model. This logic may also be applied to state and local governments for any given income distribution and target taxation level and would provide taxation stability and certainty.
Quentin Tarantino Calls the War on Drugs “Slavery!”
“Iconic film director Quentin Tarantino believes that US drug policy, and the subsequent mass incarceration of African Americans, is comparable to pre-Civil War slavery. In an interview about his latest movie—Django Unchained, which documents the story of a freed slave, played by Jamie Foxx—Tarantino points out that the hierarchies of racial injustice have shifted but … Read more
The Need for a Black President
The Need for a Black President Dennis Haysbert, Morgan Freeman, and Danny Glover have all done the role of Black President justice in the movies. Barack Obama is the real thing: The First Black President. I never ever imagined that I would utter those words in my lifetime until 2004. I watched Senator Obama’s 2004 … Read more
The Need for a White President
The election of Barack Obama was a perfect storm; a mythical man of the people versus a fallen Republican Party. The electorate demanded change. The electorate saw in him a chance for redemption and reconciliation on a number of levels: political, social, and racial. The American public at large seemed to be coalescing around an … Read more
BFL: How to Grow America
The United States has reached a sort of economical tipping point. The unstoppable force, which is globalization, has stifled the growth of the American economy in recent years. It is an inescapable fact that the economies of developed nations would see realignment in terms the value of labor. It is also inescapable that American workers, … Read more
Gettysburg Address: Romney Edition
Four score and seven years ago our parent companies brought forth on this continent, a new multinational corporation, conceived on Wall Street, and dedicated to the proposition that all corporations are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can … Read more
The Romney Constitution: We, the Corporations…
The Romney Constitution We the Corporations of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of … Read more
A New Reconstruction for a More Perfect Union
A New Reconstruction for a More Perfect Union American politics have reached a stalemate. The tension between the nation’s two most established political parties is palpable and dangerous. As-is, I do not believe that the United States is on a good social-economic trajectory. I believe that President Obama is focused on incremental change and while … Read more
My Trayvon Martin Experience
March 20, 2012 This very night, less than 30 minutes ago as I walked my dog, I came across a woman and her son. They were standing on the side of the walking track and watching kids’ softball practice. As my dog and I approach, the little boy of no more than 10 years old … Read more
Timothy Thomas: …A BLACK MAN WHO JUST LEFT THE ROOM
…A BLACK MAN WHO JUST LEFT THE ROOM That’s the punch line of an old joke that I read in high school, I can’t remember exactly how old I was at the time. I do recall I was refining my humor, trying to become more ‘acceptable’, more normal in the eyes of my peers, so … Read more
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