(ThyBlackMan.com) The 2017 NFL season concluded with an exciting Super Bowl LII. The Philadelphia Eagles are the NFL’s champions due to a balanced team led by Eagles head coach Doug Pederson and that was largely constructed by the Executive Vice President of Football Operations for the Philadelphia Eagles, Howie Roseman. Roseman’s ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) President Donald Trump is the leader of America’s conservative party. Yet not even his allies would describe him as a conservative in the tradition of Robert Taft, Russell Kirk or William F. Buckley. In the primaries of 2016, all his rivals claimed the mantle of Mr. Conservative, Ronald Reagan. Yet ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) One of the NBA’s greatest strengths compared to other professional sports leagues is how close the fans are to the athletes in physical proximity. NBA fans can literally sit courtside and be within feet of some of the greatest athletes in the world as they compete on the court. The ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I love pro-football. From the plains of Iowa, I became a Cowboys fan. Most of my friends like the Packers, Bears, Vikings, or Chiefs, but not me. I loved those Dallas Cowboys. Why? First, Iowa doesn’t have a professional football team and secondly in the late 70s the Cowboys were ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) As white people around the country are gearing up to watch and cheer and boo for the football teams in this weekend’s “Plantation Bowl”, there’s a much bigger issue that’s been obscured from all the pregame festivities leading up to “The Plantation Bowl” and that’s the issue of the sport ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In 2017, the Oxford English Dictionary officially extended the definition of the term woke to also mean “alert to racial or social discrimination and injustice”. It has become a key word in social media use and expanded into the mainstream. Over the past few years, it has become more accepted ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The month of January is known for being a beautiful start to a new year, cold climates, and eye-opening snow in many U.S. states. It is also the birth month of many historical luminaries including political activist Angela Davis, businesswoman extraordinaire Oprah Winfrey, and famed music composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Few fathers in America have become as well known as LaVar Ball. The founder of the Big Baller Brand is known for making sports news headlines for numerous reasons involving bold proclamations about himself, his talented basketball sons, or his company. He has been the center of a media whirlwind ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Conservatives and Republicans gave President Trump kudos for his remarkable list of accomplishments in his first year in office. http://washex.am/2DosDQd One crucial Trump accomplishment appears to have gone unnoticed. Trump repeatedly spoke the truth about issues fake news media demanded that we either embrace its lie about the issue ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) It was impossible for 2017 to be normal due to the political, economic, and social climate that America found itself it at the end of 2016. The U.S. Presidential Election of businessman Donald Trump in November of 2016 unleashed a wave of emotions and ideas about the present and future ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) There has been a push to boycott the NFL all season, and I understand the argument. I agree that the NFL needs to make serious changes, and they need to stand by their players where the fight for social justice is concerned. The NFL owners should be ashamed of themselves, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Diddy’s plans to buy an NFL team seem consistent with some Tweets that he posted in August in which he urged black people to follow Marcus Garvey and to achieve economic independence. Economic independence was only one aspect of Garvey’s ideology, however. Marcus Garvey envisioned a complete liberation from all ...