(ThyBlackMan.com) NBA superstar Lebron James took much heat for his off-the-cup quip about detained WNBA superstar Brittney Griner. James wondered aloud if America had her back for not immediately bringing her home. When the predictable firestorm of criticism hit, James quickly backpedaled and praised “our beautiful country.” James though was ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The month of June 2022 was a historic one for women for two major reasons. First, the U.S. Supreme Court just overturned Roe v. Wade. Prior to that monumental decision, the right to an abortion was protected under the U.S. Constitution, which meant that state lawmakers couldn’t just ban ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The prospects of a rematch on the 2020 presidential race seem to grow dimmer every day. Biden versus Trump? Not likely. And that means an open road for every senator and governor who sees a president in the mirror every morning when they shave (or put on lipstick, even). ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I am saddened by the state of affairs in our inner cities. Recently in Washington, D.C., the nation’s capital and the place I call home, several young people, including a 15- and 18-year-old, were murdered. Their lives cut short, never providing them with the opportunity to realize their God-given ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The 1973 legal precedent known as Roe v. Wade, which established abortion as a fundamental right, has been overturned by the US Supreme Court. Ending government security for legal access to abortion in the US will have long-lasting effects on millions of people’s physical, mental, and financial well-being as ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Former President Barack Obama recently gave a speech in which he attacked the critics of “identity politics.” At the June Copenhagen Democracy Summit Obama said: “I have little sympathy for reactionaries who cynically condemn identity politics or cancel culture when really all they’re doing is trying to preserve existing ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In every child’s life, there comes a point where innocence succumbs to life’s cruelty and pain. It is the moment when the child starts to become aware of the cold-hearted world in which we live. “It takes a village to raise a child” is the African proverb that means ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) North American popular music is today heard all around the world. How and where did it originate, and how did it change over time? The music of a people is generated by those at the bottom of society, closest to the land. In the US that would be the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) There has been much talk about the law in the last two weeks. The discussion must include God’s law. Have you ever wondered how a lawyer feels who knows his or her client is guilty of a crime, but is able to get that person off based on a ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) While gestalt psychologist Solomon Asch showed how quickly people bow to group pressure – even into saying something they know to be false – social psychologist Stanley Milgram, a Jew, took Asch’s “Asch Conformity Experiment” to a darker level. Baffled by why Germans remained so obedient during the butchery ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The First Amendment reflects a principled but shrewd attitude toward religion, which can be summarized: Government should keep its big fat nose out of matters of faith. The current Supreme Court, however, is not in full agreement with that proposition. It is in half agreement — and half is ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Now that Black Lives Matters has been effectively neutralized because its founders have been bought off and thus “coonerized”, it’s time that the African American community develop and deploy effective strategies to neutralize the white racist in America. Now that Jesses Jackson has been poisoned by the Covid-19 vaccine, ...