(ThyBlackMan.com) The run-up to the 2018 congressional elections has begun. With 40 Republican representatives deciding not to run again, the party’s majority in the House is at risk. President Donald Trump has announced he plans to stump for Republicans across the country, seeking to make the election a referendum on him. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Hitler had it all planned out. The Games of the XI Olympiad (the 1936 Summer Olympics) to be held in Berlin would showcase his theory of Aryan superiority. A new 100,000 seat stadium was built to house the track and field events. These would be the first Olympic Games to ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Can you imagine how much President Donald Trump and NBA superstar LeBron James could accomplish together for the benefit of young black Americans if they set aside their egos and political differences to work together? So, what’s stopping this from happening? I doubt it’s what you think. As distasteful as ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I tip my cap to LeBron James and his entire team for achieving what has proven extremely difficult, if not impossible for many others. Of course, I am referring to the I Promise School located in Lebron’s hometown of Akron, Ohio. Anyone involved in the administration, let alone the creation, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) As teams gear up for the NFL season, President Trump is reviving his destructive and diversionary attacks aimed at turning fans against players. The league office stepped in it by unilaterally declaring that players who do not want to stand during the national anthem should stay in the locker room. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Few athletes have ever been under the public spotlight more than LeBron James. It is extremely rare when high school juniors appear on the cover of America’s preeminent sports magazine, Sports Illustrated as James did back in 2002. At the age of thirty-three, LeBron James has been in the national ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I have lived long enough to testify to the following. Most apologies appear after the evil people do in the dark comes into the light. Hence, I view public apologies with extreme skepticism. The above perspective provides ample opportunity for amusing moments when others accept the apologies of professional athletes ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) According to the Associated Press in a recent story, the National Football League Players Association (NFLPA) has entered into negotiations with NFL owners, regarding the controversy over NFL players kneeling during the playing of the National Anthem. What the NFL players have done in highlighting the issue of unjust killings ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The casual sports fan would have been hard pressed to know what sport Josh Hader participated in one month ago. The 24 year old Milwaukee Brewers pitcher became known nationally for controversial, racist, and homophobic tweets that he made as a teenager that resurfaced as he pitched in the 2018 ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The 2018 ESPY Awards was another gathering of the world’s best athletes being honored in front of their peers and competitors. There was history made as former professional race car driver Danica Patrick became the first female host in ESPY Awards history. The 2018 ESPY Awards also included one of ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “It was almost no trick at all, he saw, to turn vice into virtue and slander into truth…arrogance into humility…brutality into patriotism. Anybody could do it; it required no brains at all. It merely required no character.” Joseph Heller Catch-22 Truth, sometimes, is stranger than fiction. This quote, in some ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) A pioneer is “a person or group that originates or helps open up a new line of thought or activity or a new method or technical development”. In sports, pioneers are often viewed as people who make innovations or breakthroughs in how a sport is played or how the business ...