(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 ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In this day, and age, there isn’t much a cellphone can’t do. Social media has become the primary source of information in many areas. We get the news, sports, gossip, and even live presidential addresses from social media. Social media is on our computers, tablets, phones, and it’s even on ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) A ‘man-cave’ is a man’s domain; it is his place of solitude and comfort. For some, though, in a culture where brothers have been demonized and ostracized, the man-cave becomes a place of idleness, a habitat for sameness, where we become deathly afraid to think outside the box. Our man-cave ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) There will always be haters, and those that complain but do nothing to make positive change in the community. When you know your value, worth, and skills you use what you have to make change in this world regardless of your title. The current president has done everything he could ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) We should know our social security number; we should know our birthplace and date of birth; we should know the day we got married – but is that all we should know? Of course not! Our lives are not golden until we tap into that ineffable source of enlightenment called ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The latest iteration of Obamacare repeal has likely failed. Senate Republicans were unable to pass a watered-down repeal effort that offered states some meager level of federalism in the form of block grants. Now, we’re again going to hear a lot of noise about the need to embrace a “bipartisan” ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands drowned while President Donald Trump tweeted. It is hard to conclude otherwise. On Sept. 20, Hurricane Maria — the second major hurricane in less than two weeks — hit the islands, which together are home to some 3.5 million American citizens. Yet for ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I wrote “It’s OK to Leave the Plantation” to highlight how success comes from work, dedication and accepting challenges. Why does the NFL and NBA sports industry fail to understand who we are – and stand up? You guys are just entertainers and not performing surgery on me, sending my ...