(ThyBlackMan.com) Yes, there are undeniable racial components to the LeBron James hate of the past two months. But the sinister subset of America that finds it easier to loathe him because he’s a black man is old, boring news. More interesting to me is the mood of the “black community.” Much ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Back in 2006 during an interview with T.I., he told me he had changed. He told me he was sad it took him so long to realize he had been living on the wrong side of the law. He told me it was his biggest regret that he had let ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) One of the key components of weight loss and muscle gain is the food you eat. If you exercise but eat all the wrong foods, you will likely have slow or minimal progress, which is extremely discouraging. However, if you give your muscles the fuel they need, you will ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) After the tragic events of September 11, 2001, things changed in this nation. For the first time, America went to war with an unknown enemy. The war efforts meandered from Afghanistan to Iraq and from Osama bin Laden to Saddam Hussein. And, in order to stimulate support for the war ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Set aside some prominent success stories, like the current occupant of the White House, and the last few decades have not been great ones for African-American progress. In 1975, per capita black income was 41 percent lower than per capita white income. Since then, the gap has shrunk only modestly, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The federal government’s new rules on “gainful employment” would make many students ineligible for financial aid at career-oriented schools… The Department of Education has proposed new rules for students attending career-oriented schools that could disproportionally harm minority students. The rules, which would go into effect in November, could cut ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) After all the legal trouble T.I.’s endured, will his latest arrest for possession of a controlled substance kill his career? Not if theBVX has anything to say about it, so we’re giving the King of the South a few tips on how to live his life. 1. Explain Yourself IMMEDIATELY ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) He must literally be perfect daily to be considered simply competent… Despite passing health care reform, despite preventing this recession and subsequent financial crisis from sliding into a full-blown depression, despite then passing the most aggressive financial reform legislation in U.S. history, despite having the most aggressive Department of ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) A tragic crisis of enormous magnitude is facing black boys and men in America. Parental neglect, racial discrimination and an orgy of self-destructive behavior have left an extraordinary portion of the black male population in an ever-deepening pit of social and economic degradation. The Schott Foundation for Public Education tells ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Mass incarceration has not reduced crime, but it has made prison a more common experience for poor black men than joining a union or doing military service… For decades now, America has been pursuing a deeply punitive anti-crime social policy: the criminal-punishment binge. It is what lies at the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Hip Hop promotes blacks living beyond their means, skipping out on education… The debate has raged for centuries about whether art influences society or where society is influences art. In the case of popular hip-hop music, the “art” both creates and justifies society, even at it own expense. As ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) President Obama has become a racial enigma. When it comes to the black/white divide in America, Obama is believed to be everything from Clarence Thomas to Malcolm X, depending on whom you ask. The right-wing identifies Obama as a radical black man who hates white people, and the progressive black ...