(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 ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Our American exceptionalism allows us to shimmer, too fully in our greatness. We are the biggest and the baddest. We are the best armed and the most influential. We win the most Olympic medals, and we have the most nuclear weapons. We are so great that we wave our flags ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) @BritniDWrites – @EBONYMag; “This win hopefully brings hope and change to some of the issues going on.” #BeingABlackGirlIsLit esp. in #RIO When was the last time African Americans, Haitians, Hispanics, and other people of color and culture were brought together and celebrated their diversity? When President Obama was sworn ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Alabama is known for many things like being the 4th most corrupt state in the country, systemic oppression, mass incarceration, and being the most religious state in the country. But what most people in Alabama care about more than their conservatism and religion is Football, Football, Football, Football. And it’s ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The issue is not the bad behavior, lies, or even white privilege that was nakedly on display in the case of the prevaricating white Olympic swimmers. The issue is, as always, the boundless storehouse of apologizing for bad behaving, and more times than not, law breaking young and no so ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I saw a comment that Cam Newton made that really bothered me. He told GQ Magazine that America is a “post-racial” society. The comment is a reflection of the severe brainwashing of inner city athletes that have happened in America since the days when Joe Louis was told that if ...