(ThyBlackMan.com) I watched a black professional football player wax passionately in his complaint that, it isn’t as bad today as when his “mamma” was born in 1955, but blacks today are still fighting for equality. The ESPN program hosts solemnly nodded their heads in agreement. The depth of ignorance the petulant ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) My position on Kaep is that he absolutely has a constitutional right to express his opinion on the politics of diversity in America today. Colin Kaepernick is courageous, well-informed, and steadfast in his position. He is evolving through an “awakening,” and (perhaps) really understanding for the first time ? given ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) I have been keeping up with what is going on with the huge protest of The Anthem on the Internet and social media for these past few weeks because I don’t watch mainstream media, especially mainstream news outlets like MSNBC, Fox News, CNN, especially ESPN. A few weeks ago, a ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) The uproar continues over San Francisco 49ner quarterback Colin Kaepernick’s decision to sit-down, rather than stand, during the playing of the National Anthem. Kaepernick said his decision was intended to protest the continued injustices being inflicted on Black people, including police brutality and killings.  Though the negative tide has turned ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) The corporate mind control apparatus is making a big deal about NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick’s refusal to stand during the playing of the US National Anthem. I think the media has a reprehensible motive for focusing on Kaepernick. When he did it the first two times nothings was said ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) When someone like an Edward Snowden or a Colin Kaepernick becomes a lightning rod by threatening American self love and its symbols, pay attention to your close associates and you might be surprised to find out who they really are and how they truly relate to the world. One’s knee-jerk ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick recently refused to stand up during the national anthem in protest against social injustices towards African Americans. In his words he refused to “show pride in the flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color.” Because of his actions many ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Recent polls find a majority of Americans believe that “race relations,” since the election of the first black president, have gotten worse, not better. Colin Kaepernick, a National Football League quarterback, is Exhibit A for why so many people feel this way. Colin Kaepernick signed a $114 million six-year contract ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Baseball is one of the most popular sports in the world, and it is not too hard to see why. After all, it is a game which involves many different aspects of sportsmanship in one. Almost everyone has played some baseball at some point in their life. Yet, not everyone ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Let’s be clear. San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick has the first amendment right not to stand for the national anthem. There is no legal requirement for anyone to stand for the national anthem. In fact, the National Football League made it official when it issued this statement: “Players are ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) I admit it. I have this corny obsession with the baseball movie, “The Natural.” At the end of the movie it is the bottom of the ninth ending with two outs. Roy Hobbs is at bat. The game and his teammate’s hope of playing in the world series is on ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) It is no secret the recent exploitation of Nate Parker’s sexually irresponsible adolescent (19) behavior is a ploy to discredit his character in effort to create a cloud of suspicion around his new work, Birth of a Nation, a film centered around freedom fighter Nat Turner. In discussing the inception ...