(ThyBlackMan.com) This past July, after more than two decades in the league, LeBron James faced a decision hardly any athlete gets to make on his own clock. Keep playing, or hang it up. For a good while there, even he did not know which way it would land. The money was ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Something about the Paul Pierce mess has been sitting heavy on me all week. Not the dollar figures, loud as they are. What bothers me is the posture of it. A grown man treating his responsibility to his own flesh and blood the way he might treat a bad ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The sky is blue, God is real, Trump is president, the sun rises in the east and sets in the west, Kamala was a disaster, Obama was horrible for Blacks, radical Black liberals are obsessed with race, and radical Black liberals will congregate in Martha’s Vineyard to complain about ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I can remember the time we had horrific wars where family members and numerous friends died. That was a sad period in our lives and we prayed that wars would end as quickly as possible. We didn’t have a cheerleader making constant threats about killing people casually. We still ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) There are many ways to measure the health of a country. One way is growth of gross domestic product. Another is economic productivity. But there’s a less conventional measure worth watching: Do the world’s most talented and ambitious people want to immigrate here? Throughout most of America’s history, the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche is not qualified to be the attorney general of the United States because he has demonstrated a hopeless conflict between the rule of law — which he has taken an oath to support — and his sense of personal loyalty to President Donald Trump, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The Trump administration is not eliminating workplace discrimination. It is eliminating the receipts. On July 23, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) proposed abolishing the EEO-1 report and five related workforce reports. For nearly sixty years, EEO-1 has required large private employers to report the race, ethnicity and sex ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The spirit behind the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was to firmly free the nation of systemic racial discrimination by ensuring that a citizen’s vote actually mattered—a concept known as meaningful representation. Meaningful representation means people are not just allowed to vote, but they have a fair opportunity to ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Tuskegee University announced this month that bonnets, do-rags, and bedroom shoes will no longer be permitted in its classrooms and cafeteria, and the fuss that followed says more about us than any scrap of cloth ever could. Give me a minute with that, because the noise came fast and ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I believe you need to know that you are valuable! So many of us in today’s society are discounted and written off as unworthy. But, God has instructed me to let you know that to Him you are more valuable than you can compute! We look at our economic ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The Bible has the knack for cutting through the fog of uncertainty and ambivalence and getting to the heart of the matter with a directness and clarity that is awesome. If people saw the Bible for what it really is – a roadmap to the heart and the mind ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) If you are of a certain age, you were told growing up that, “Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.” The earliest known public use of this proverb or adage was on March 22, 1862, in The Christian Recorder newspaper. The Christian Recorder ...