(ThyBlackMan.com) This question is on the minds of many in the African American community. The answer is a simple and resounding yes. Education does indeed level the playing field, not just for Blacks. It is one of the great equalizers in our society. However, one cannot just sit back and ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The postponed and rescheduled 2020 Olympic Games are only a few weeks away. If the Japanese and International Olympic Committees can manage a COVID-safe environment, I welcome them. I consider this event to be one of the purest forms of athletic competition. Participants train and compete fairly in a test of physical ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) June is Pride Month, commemorating the violent police raid on the Stonewall Inn on June 28, 1969, when GLBTQ activists fought abusive police officers who beat gay men, lesbians, and those who cross-dressed. So-called law enforcement also participated in blackmail and extortion against those who were closeted. It took 50 ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Many Americans have been hesitant to take the Covid-19 vaccine shot for various reasons; this hesitancy has been especially acute within the Black community. Most of this hesitancy within the Black community is well founded. Many of our experiences with the federal government has been painful, to say the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Football is America’s game. With a pre-pandemic annual revenue of over $15 billion, the National Football League far outpaces other major North American sports franchises (Major League Baseball, the National Basketball Association and the National Hockey League) and is the most lucrative sports league in the world. After long ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I’ve always enjoyed observing the unique behaviors of children. With them, what you see is what you get. They present an unvarnished, no-excuse look at human behavior and become genuinely interesting when they are old enough to understand the difference between right and wrong. Their cleanup after doing something they know (and ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Isn’t it amazing that the Republican Party and conservatives have been branded with the racist label but in reality, it really is the Democratic Party and radical liberals who are the true racist? Publicly, liberals constantly profess their “love” and “affection” for the Black community yet have the most racist track ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Everyone grew up with someone who obnoxiously would recount everything you’d just gone through, to the people who were, like they weren’t – “Did you see that chick who started talking to you?” Yeah, I was talking to her. “My God, she just walked right up and started talking ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Despite being booted from social media, unfairly impeached twice, the victim of constant harassment and hoaxes and the target of six years of horrific and biased press coverage, Donald Trump remains the only towering figure in the Republican Party. A recent poll showed that 57% of Republicans favored Trump to win ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “No physician is racist.” The storm hit the instant those words were uttered in the Journal of American Medical Association’s podcast in February. The Journal is the Bible of the American Medical Association, and thus the Bible for doctors and medical professionals everywhere. So, no surprise those words would ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) There is a subject that Black men refuse to talk about, and it is the abuse of drugs in our community. There is a menu of drugs in our community, and everyone who uses them has their desired choice. Drugs are destroying Black families, careers, relationships, lives, budgets, and ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) If you ever get the chance, I would suggest that you read the book The Color Purple by American author Alice Walker. Unlike Orwell’s 1984 and I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou, I only read The Color Purple once while at Morehouse and it has had an imprint in my memory. In Letters ...