(ThyBlackMan.com) Floyd Mayweather’s win over Conor McGregor last month was record-setting for numerous reasons. It featured the two biggest names in their respective sports and the total gross for the event might be the largest in boxing history. The boxing history part of that match happened when Mayweather defeated McGregor as ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “Avoiding brainwashing techniques often involves avoiding the brainwashers themselves, but this is next to impossible. Taking advertising as an example, you can’t avoid them all and attempting to do so can be rather expensive if you still want to watch television and movies. Your best bet is to cut out ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Recently, an article came out on Vice Sports called “The Plot to Disrupt the NCAA with a Pay-for-Play HBCU Basketball League” And the article discussed a plan by Andy Schwarz, an San Francisco based antitrust economist and a long time critic of the pseudo-amateurism that’s often promoted within college sports. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The National Football League is filled with some of the best athletes on the planet. Although NFL teams often see their own players as disposable commodities that can be released or waived without the same financial consequences of other professional sports leagues, it is clear that the athletes in the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Melissa “Missy” Elliott will always be known as a trendsetter in music. Well, in hip hop music primarily. In the hip hop arena, Missy was the first of her kind, combining her rapping and singing skills with pop-friendly songwriting. Her first four rap albums transcended the urban genre, and helped ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Have you ever felt as if you were losing? Have you ever been associated with a losing culture? Between 2014-15 and 2015-16, the Philadelphia 76ers lost 28 straight games spanning two seasons, the most consecutive losses in NBA history. Now that’s losing! “Last night took an L but tonight I ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) It is not surprising that the police are viewed differently by white people in general and black people in general. There is significant gaps in how both racial groups view police performance in their communities. According to Pew Research Center, about a third of black people say police in their ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The 2017 NFL regular season is upon us. While plenty of people are disappointed with the NFL’s handling of Colin Kaepernick, reactions to player protests to the national anthem, and some of the domestic violence issues with some NFL players, there are other positive stories with NFL players assisting with ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Last night, I had watched a very powerful and impactful documentary that portrayed The 1988 Carter High School Football Team in a more sympathetic light than the negative portrayal from white nationalist media’s image of the “thuggish badboy” football team from the 2004 film of “Friday Night Lights” The documentary ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Nothing is impossible with God, and little is impossible if you’re a U.S. citizen. Where else in the world is it possible for an illiterate black man and a big-mouth Irish fighter, who stood in the welfare lines of Dublin, Ireland, just four short years ago, to potentially earn ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Hurricane Harvey has been among the most destructive natural events in recent American history. It has generated a record amount of rainfall and has broken the all-time Texas rainfall record from a tropical storm or hurricane. Hurricane Harvey has already had billions of dollars of financial implications related to its ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I rarely write about sports because while it is mostly viewed as a form of recreation and entertainment at its core it reflects the values and consciousness of our society and folks don’t like to be reminded of that. Some say sports is a form of tribalism a vicarious way ...