(ThyBlackMan.com) Mass incarceration has not reduced crime, but it has made prison a more common experience for poor black men than joining a union or doing military service… For decades now, America has been pursuing a deeply punitive anti-crime social policy: the criminal-punishment binge. It is what lies at the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Hip Hop promotes blacks living beyond their means, skipping out on education… The debate has raged for centuries about whether art influences society or where society is influences art. In the case of popular hip-hop music, the “art” both creates and justifies society, even at it own expense. As ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The NCAA rule book is not the United States Constitution. If anything, the rule book supporting the bogus concept of “amateur athletics” is akin to the laws that supported Jim Crow, denied women suffrage and upheld slavery. The architect of the modern NCAA, the organization’s former president, Walter Byers, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) A gangsta-inspired double-consciousness? I think I’m Big Meech/Larry Hoover? Whipping work/hallelujah? One nation/under god ? Real n*ggas getting money from the fu*king start? –B.M.F (Blowin Money Fast) by Rick Ross featuring Styles P?? Earlier this month, Casey Gane-McCalla, a journalist, rapper, comedian and Facebook friend, declared on his FB ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The world’s most talented and most popular track star finds that setting world records is easier than crashing the circle of top earners. Here’s what stands in his way to becoming a $10 million man. Usain Bolt may be the world’s fastest man, but so far he hasn’t sped to ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) For some reason, NBA veterans have decided to start weighing in on the decision-making skills of LeBron James. First, there was Michael Jordan, who said that he would never join forces with other great players in order to go after a championship. Then Sir Charles Barkley (not known for ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The festivities are over, the guests have all gone and now you are finally man and wife. Sure you are enjoying the first flush of love but hey, marriage requires much more than just love to keep it going. There are a few steps that will ensure that you get ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) So you’ve been trying very hard to woo that pretty, young thing, but nothing seems to be working for you so far? More than doing the right thing, it’s about not doing the wrong thing! Here are the mistakes no guy should ever make… Happy wooing! Being too much ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Curt Flood and Oscar Robertson Must Be Proud… Amid much fanfare, pomp and circumstance, free agent superstar, LeBron James, made his decision. It was a little too much fanfare for some, but you can do that when you’re the game’s best player. And for his age, he is the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) No American minority group has been caricatured as often and in as many ways as blacks. The entertainment media, from vaudeville to television, has portrayed blacks as happy-go-lucky idiots, dangerous thugs, and any definition of a n**ga one could fathom. The industry has degraded the black community for years, simply ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Why athletes need to demand a piece of the money they earn… I’ve said it once and I’ll keep on saying it: The NCAA is an incredibly destructive force within the African American community. The league, which professes to offer opportunities to “educate” players, often turns into a pathway ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Last year, our nation was brought to a standstill over an otherwise uneventful confrontation between a police officer and a professor. That professor’s name was Henry Louis Gates Jr. To our surprise, we then watched this non-event become the national spectacle, as the police officer soon learned not to mess ...