(ThyBlackMan.com) Let’s throw out a few numbers so we can put in perspective the NFL players taking a knee during the playing of the national anthem. Many say they are protesting against police treatment of blacks and racial discrimination. We might ask just how much sense their protest makes. According to ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Does any American citizen have the right to peacefully protest? Hell yes, that is a fact, a right and the law. Protesting also includes freedom of speech, yet another right we are guaranteed. So it amazes me when people want to squash or criticize your right to protest. How dare ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The country is divided. This is not something that just happened; the division of this country is as old as the nation itself. The problem is not necessarily a lack of conversation, nor narrative, but the lack of truth in the conversation. We cannot expect to find a way to ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Right now, we live in a country where emotions and social tension is running high. Every time we turn on the news, or tune in to social media we are seeing social unrest on so many levels. It is unfortunate that facts, and truth, are simply sidebars in conversations led ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) President Donald Trump and his Republican Party should be celebrating. The GOP just rolled out a big tax cut bill, as the party controls the White House, Senate and House. But instead of breaking out party hats and noisemakers, party leaders are looking down at a feast of anxiety and ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Former Army Ranger Alejandro Villanueva was the only Pittsburgh Steeler standing for the national anthem last Sunday while his cowardly coach and teammates hid in their locker room. Millions saw the stoic face of Villanueva as he stood alone outside the team tunnel at Soldier Field with his hand over ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) About a year ago, ex-NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick took a knee to originally protest police violence against urban people and the following weeks several NFL players including some WNBA players also took a stand against police violence. All these parasitic capitalist sports organizations like the NFL which parasitically extracts at ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) A few years ago, I wrote one of the most difficult, most personal columns I have ever written. I was totally terrified about going public with that particular column, because I didn’t know how strangers, my family, or my friends would respond to it. In 2013, I came out of ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Let’s get a couple of facts out of the way…no one is perfect, and mistakes happen. Too many people expect perfection in a significant other, spouse, that they are incapable of giving. They can’t give the perfection they expect because it’s impossible to achieve. This is necessary to acknowledge because ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) When Colin Kaepernick took a knee last year, he may have not known the breadth of the movement he would inspire. As with any movement of protest, there is now emerging a raucous and virulent counter protest (witness Charlottesville) that is intent on drowning out the voice of reason and ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I recently ran into an old friend I hadn’t seen in years. After some small talk, I asked her how she had been doing. I genuinely wanted to know how she’d be holding up of late. Her faced turned sullen as she prepared to recount her life for the past ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) One would think the President of the Unites States is one of the busiest people in the world. Being able to be personable with the people in one’s country is a positive attribute. However, how does one have time to be so embroiled in social media battles that are deemed ...