(ThyBlackMan.com) Rap began as genre of music to not only to express happiness and fun and partying but also a genre of music to express anguish, strife, and struggle. The genre in its truest form is either loved for telling the truth or derided for over-exaggerating conditions some don’t want ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) As an undergraduate I wrote a senior thesis entitled “The Myth of the Black Quarterback,” where-in I concluded that Black athletes, and specifically Black quarterbacks, have constantly had to fight with the racial “demons” of the past. Namely, their success has often fallen victim to the struggle to transcend ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Christmas has come early: Herman Cain is no longer pretending to run for president. It is for that reason that he has selected BET to air his final interview. A curious decision considering that throughout his campaign, Herman Cain had deliberately avoided any association with African-Americans or the political ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) William “Reds” Brawner was apparently a hot commodity on the Howard University campus. As a student who graduated from the university in 2006, Brawner had a long list of female friends, many of whom were willing to do whatever he wanted at the drop of a hat. One thing ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) eclecticalexandria: i’m tired of reading, seeing, and hearing lectures and panels of men sharing their opinion of why women are single and how women should portray themselves in society. true womanhood cannot and never will be defined by a man. This may be old news to some folks but I’mma ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Further revelations about the SAT cheating scandal that emerged in September and has now ensnared at least 40 former high school students from Long Island, New York, in addition to the original 5 suspects charged with accepting payments between $500 to $3600 to take SAT and ACT exams for ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Let me see if I understand this. The person who reads the news on TV is called a “commentator?” A COMMENTator? Implicit in their very designation is the expectation that they are providing editorial opinion. If in nothing else, at least in the title that these reporters carry, the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The devastating price of government dependency. I witnessed it up close and personal in the late 50s when I was a child. Both of my mom’s sisters had five kids each by various men who simply deposited their seed and moved on. Thus, both of my aunts were totally ...