(ThyBlackMan.com) Turn on the debate shows long enough and you start to notice who gets handed the microphone when a Black athlete steps out of line. Not the loud one. Not the guy who might scare the room. Producers want somebody who looks the part, talks the culture, and still ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Adrien Broner once carried the kind of promise the fight game rarely hands out. For a while, people talked about him like the next Floyd Mayweather. World titles across four weight classes, mouth running faster than his hands, a swagger that made you either love him or want to ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Summer of 2024, on a debate stage down in Atlanta, the man stood up and told the whole country that folks coming across the southern border were snatching up what he called “Black jobs.” A few weeks later he walked into a room full of Black journalists in Chicago ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Somebody decided a while back that a serious Black man ought to look as if he is hauling a boulder up a hill. I never agreed to that. My pushback happens right here in the kitchen, volume up, nothing loud about it. Most of what gets published about brothers ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Political parties trade in loyalty, yet no Black man should hand a campaign the right to decide whom he respects, mentors, hires, or stands beside, especially not an outfit that will forget his name the morning after the votes are counted. I have lived long enough to watch good ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) You couldn’t find a wackier candidate than Francesca Hong, the Democratic Socialist vying to become the governor of Wisconsin. She wanted to defund police and abolish ICE, topping it all off with a call to end Thanksgiving. “Saturday Night Live” couldn’t have made her up. Hong lost the Democratic ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Since March, America has been running an accidental experiment and glimpsing what the country might look like without one of its dumbest statutes. The results are in, and they embarrass a century’s worth of U.S. lawmakers and defenders. The statute is the Jones Act, passed in 1920 to rebuild ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “The makers of our Constitution undertook to secure conditions favorable to the pursuit of happiness. … They conferred against the Government the right to be let alone — most comprehensive of rights and the right most valued by civilized men.” — Justice Louis D. Brandeis (1856-1941) The rapid spread ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Last month, President Donald Trump left the summit in Ankara, Turkey in a catering truck. He walked onto the old Air Force One in view of all the cameras, then snuck onto a catering truck to be whisked to a military jet, which flew him to England, where he ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) For many Black families across the country, the moment an investigation officially closes rarely feels like an ending. A department announces its findings, a report gets filed, and the public conversation moves on within days. For the people left behind, that same moment often marks the beginning of a ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) By every measure and means of rational and relevant consideration, calculation and comprehension, August is a month of major historical markers and milestones for us as African peoples. Indeed, it is an August of revolution, revolt, rebellion, insurrection and resistance of various kinds, and therefore, we call it Insurgent August, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Sadly, Donald Trump’s war against Iran which he launched at the behest of Israel, is rapidly spiraling out of control. It is now threatening to engulf larger regions and sections of the globe! How did this happen? How have Trump’s foolish actions against Iran devolved into a wider conflict that ...