(ThyBlackMan.com) It’s no secret that black people, particularly males, are arrested, prosecuted and imprisoned at a disproportionately elevated rate. There are many different reasons why this trend has been occurring in the United States for hundreds of years, but nobody seems to have the solution. One reason that a constant flow ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) As I said in the first piece I wrote for ThyBlackMan, I’m going to talk about the things that I (and many others I’ve talked to) believe in, and what those principles mean when you think about them. We believe that all people have certain rights, which are theirs from ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Just recently, The University Of Alabama In Tuscaloosa had announced that they will erect the statues of Mark Ingram and Derrick Henry, two examples of well behaved black athletes that predominate white institutions (aka PWIs) like The University Of Alabama In Tuscaloosa have a long history of celebrating well behaved ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) According to the U.S. Religious Landscape Survey, conducted in 2007 by the Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion & Public Life, Black Americans “are markedly more religious on a variety of measures than the U.S. population as a whole.” It cited that 87% of Blacks (vs. 83% of all Americans) ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) April 21, 2016 we were forced to say goodbye to the man we know as Prince. To me that was one of the darkest days of this year. How do I acknowledge the passing of an artist whose music meant to much to my life, and whose music saw me ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I admit I miss Michael Jackson. I can’t lie his music, creativity and the humanity he possessed are the things I miss the most. People can say what they want…I don’t believe he was wacko, and the world seemed to be a better place when he was in it. Though ...
Why the hiring of Willie Taggart could be a game changer for black head coaches in college football.
(ThyBlackMan.com) One of the more interesting college football head coaching hires for the 2017 season is the hiring of South Florida’s Willie Taggart to the University of Oregon. There was interest from Oregon in other accomplished coaches like Boise State’s Bryan Harsin and Western Michigan’s P.J. Fleck but they ultimately ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Many of us have an extreme mental illness of depending on bigots to give us jobs and opportunities because Many of us are economically vulnerable to mistreatment, discrimination, and disrespect by bigots in Corporate America. And the thought of even relying on them to take care of us and pay ...