(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) Imagine the Chicago Bulls of the NBA during the early Michael Jordan years. He was their top draft pick in the 1984 NBA draft. Jordan’s early years were filled with many, lows before he experienced the joys of winning six NBA championships. During the Bulls’ down years, can you imagine ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Navy Seals killed Osama bin Laden. US Special Forces, various Kurdish and Shia forces, airstrikes, and strained cooperation with the Russians appear to be pushing back the Islamic State (ISIS) in Iraq and Syria. But, even with all this “success” in dismantling the Caliphate, many national security experts have ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Despite her best efforts and those of her friends in the corporate media, Hillary Clinton cannot escape her email scandal. In an attempt to comingle her responsibilities as secretary of state with her influence peddling at the Clinton Foundation, she used a private server to conduct all of her ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) People in Louisiana are suffering from what the Red Cross has called the worst flooding since Hurricane Sandy. Many have lost everything they owned and for no few that included the lost of life of family members, loved ones, friends, and pets. Still others have suffered without the medicine that ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Literally seven out of every 10 politics stories published in the mainstream media this year have centered upon the improbable campaign for president of Donald Trump. The media have pretty much covered the gamut – from Trump’s shocking rhetoric, to his unorthodox campaign finance strategies, to Trump’s strong appeal among ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) This year’s the presidential campaign is getting more and more nastier with Donald Trump recently calling Killary a bigot and I find it very funny that I actually agree with a guy that I’m not personally fond of. Intro: Here are the reasons why Killary is a bigot: The 1994 ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “Quilombo dos Palmares was a self-sustaining republic of maroons located in ‘a region perhaps the size of Portugal in the hinterland of Bahia’ (Braudel 1984). The Bahia – Alagoas region of Brazil is where this free African settlement was located. At its height in the early 1600s, Palmares had a ...
(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) Let’s succeed together in making this country a better place for humanity. Let’s work together, and separately, to send out the best possible progressive mandate for our politicians to respond to in the Fall of 2016. Electoral politics in America often bring out the worst in people. It is ...
(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) “Do you ever get tired of defending Donald Trump?” a critic asked. It isn’t that Donald Trump does not say things that are cringe-worthy. It’s that his opponent, Hillary Rodham Clinton, says and does things even more cringe-worthy. So forgive those who feel that Trump’s supposedly “outrageous” statements are nothing ...