(ThyBlackMan.com) For the last week or so I’ve been following the reports on the riots after the Michael Brown shooting. This is horrible, I cannot imagine his families grief. The response has been phenomenal: I think it is a good thing that the black community is coming together in protest ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The tech and investor mania is cranking up again! Leafly.com (think AngiesList plus marijuana stores) recently closed $50MM in investment capital. Another fly-by-night app, YO (an app the pulls your contacts and merely text them, you guessed it, ‘Yo!’) recently closed $1.5MM in VC money. So whether you are ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Do not allow to slip away from you freedoms the people who came before you won with such hard knocks. ~David Herbert Lawrence It has been said that American slaves were not ready for freedom. Hum? With a hint of sarcasm, I can’t help but wonder why people forced and kept ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) This post can be considered a continuation of my post, ‘Black Problems’ only because of the alarming amount of single parent households in the community, as well as the way those in abject poverty hustle, or make their money. *I cannot speak on any other culture, because I am ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) To say their names in one sentence, together, is like committing an act of auto-lingual arousal. These two women have helped to cement a redefinition of beauty that boldly steps away from an otherwise bland field of homogenous features that all seem to glorify a very small global ethnic ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) On August 5 of this year the world champion San Antonio Spurs’ head coach Greg Popovich signed an assistant coach. No big deal right? The new hire was a 16 year vet of the professional game having played domestically and overseas in Spain and Russia. Sounds like a very ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Without a choice Black women carry the burdens of yesteryear. Barely exiting the womb life roles are given to them without tryout. Worse, yet, society expects Black women to succeed in those demeaning and demanding meager roles. Should a Black woman interjects the station forced upon her by those who fear ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) According to the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence 1.3 million women are victims of physical assault by an intimate partner each year. Nearly one third of female homicides are committed by an intimate partner. The cost of intimate partner violence exceeds 5.8 billion dollars a year. Domestic violence is ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Long lost are the days when our fighters embodied the collective pathos of our community. The last one to do it effectively was Muhammad Ali, whose eloquent delivery and stylish bravado captured and certified the black community’s desire to define itself by its own terms. Ultimately the message that ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Stephen A. Smith, ESPN analyst, writer and social critic, recently got into a bunch of hot water while commenting on the most recent domestic abuse eruption between Baltimore Ravens running back Raymell Rice and then girlfriend (now wife) Janay Palmer. At issue was a videotape that was released by ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Before I go into this subject I must say that this subject matter was brought to my attention by a 15 yr. old student that attempted suicide because of being taunted by the so-called more attractive girls at her school. She says that everyday for years she has been ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The homosexual mafia has struck again. This time, however, they have picked the wrong target. Beloved former Tampa Bay and Indianapolis Colts head coach Tony Dungy has been under a vicious assault for honestly answering a reporter’s question. In an interview with the Tampa Tribune, Tony Dungy was asked ...