(ThyBlackMan.com) The NFL Commissioner’s office said it wanted former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick to attend the second NFL owners meeting. The NFL Players Association said it wanted Kaepernick to attend the meeting. Now whether Kaepernick will attend the meeting or not is anybody’s guess. So far, Kap has done ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “We want to make sure we are understanding what the players are talking about, and that is complex.” – National Football League Commissioner Roger Goodell. When San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick last year began kneeling during the National Anthem at the start of games, he explained: “I am not ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The city of Charlottesville, Virginia has been prominently in the national news throughout 2017 for various reasons. The city most known as the home to the University of Virginia is a small city by size but also has a large series of attractions and venues for its relatively small size. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The 2017 World Series between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Houston Astros has started and it is full of fascinating storylines. Both teams were very successful during the regular season by winning over 100 games and the Dodgers leading all Major League Baseball teams with 104 wins. The Astros ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Warning: Offensive Language White slave masters never admired their black slaves, yet white sports fans all around the world worship their favorite black athletes. Nike endorsements, sports arenas, and college campuses aren’t exactly what I’d call slave ships, chains or whips. Yet, if you listen to black activists, ESPN analysts ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Professional team sports in America are one of the few professional industries where people of various ethnicities, socio-economic backgrounds, and cultures come together to work together on a common goal. At times, that can lead to tense moments and difficult conversations between teammates as locker rooms faced following the election ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) What President Trump dropped into the lap of the National Football League (NFL) was a destructive bomb which lined up some players against team owners, and polarized the league. Mr. Trump knew his racist bomb would break the league up into opposing factions because of the issue and the employee ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) President Donald Trump has a knack for diverting attention from his failures, often using race as the vehicle. So when Sen. John McCain came out against the cruel Graham-Cassidy Republican health care bill late Friday, guaranteeing its well-deserved crash, Trump went speeding down the racially divisive low road. At a ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) It is becoming increasingly harder to have educated civilized debate these days. People do not know how to agree to disagree anymore. Disagreeing makes you an enemy. You can’t even disagree a little bit. You must be all in or you better be ready to fight. Relationships that took lifetimes ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The National Basketball Association is known for being the most modern of all the American professional sports leagues in terms of racial diversity hiring. It is not surprising and expected to see men of color as NBA head coaches and assistant coaches throughout NBA franchise all over the country. In ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The Dallas Cowboys may very well be “America’s Team” in the sense that their owner seems to be very much so invested in the same great America as Trump. Jerry Jones doesn’t care about the America his players have to live in. Cowboy stadium is a stage, and they are ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) As a black proud American, I was repulsed learning that the NAACP sent out a press release accusing Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones of violating his players free speech rights. In a nutshell, Jones told his employees, if you don’t stand for our national anthem, your derriere will ride ...