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( ThyBlackMan.com) Here we go again. In the space of a recent few days we had a verbally disjointed announcer during a championship game rant and rail at members of a girl’s basketball team in Norman, Oklahoma for having the temerity to kneel at the playing of the national anthem. Then you had Miami Heat player Meyers Leonard getting caught spewing an anti-Semitic slurwhile playing a video game. If that wasn’t enough in a week you had a near icon sportscaster at a Chicago TV station go off...

ThyBlackMan.com) The cancel culture has struck three classic Disney films – “Dumbo,” “Peter Pan” and “The Aristocats” – because of their “racist” stereotypes. The company’s streaming service, Disney+, removed access to the films for children under age 7. It is hoped the move will deter kids from watching the beloved titles so they won’t get any misguided ideas – especially when they’re not allowed in school. In the “Stories Matter” section of the Disney website...

Depression will cause us intense feelings of sorrow and desperation sometimes.

( ThyBlackMan.com) Virtually seconds after presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden picked California senator Kamala Harris as his running mate, Trump did the predictable. He went on the attack. Harris was “nasty,” “a loser,” “disrespectful,” and “phony.” He topped it by bragging that he wanted her to be the VP pick. Presumably, because she would be virtually putty in his and the GOP’s attack hands. Harris won’t be. But she does have five major tasks to perform...

( ThyBlackMan.com) As you may be aware, as noted in one of my prior essays, some of the oldest mathematical artifacts including the Ishango bone and a piece of baboon fibula with 29 notches, dated 35,000 BC found in the mountains between South Africa and Swaziland are preeminently recognized as documenting the existence of math prior to the establishment of Europe. Now some were disturbed that I accurately stated that Euclid was born in Africa and was of African origin but that is beside the p...

ThyBlackMan.com) The Apple vs Facebookdrama has taught us one thing, there are good reasons for the public to be vigilant about hypocrisy. With its full-page newspaper ad campaign, Facebook tried to project itself as the protector of small businesses. On the other hand, Apple is trying its best to make Facebook understand that its new security update gives Apple device users more control over privacy. It’s not that Facebook doesn’t understand a simple thing about app privacy settings, it�...

Dear Black Men, Greetings gentlemen. I hope this letter finds you in good health.  I am writing this letter to share with you an experience I recently had that changed my life.  I had previously been involved with this woman. For the sake of discretion, let’s call her Bunny.  Bunny and I had a toxic relationship.  Not toxic in the form of physical and mental abuse, but we argued a lot.  Toward the end of our relationship we argued every day. Honestly, I don’t remember what half the ar...

ThyBlackMan.com) The instant the video flashed globally of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin choking George Floyd to death the president of the national Fraternal Order of Police, Patrick Yoes, issued an indignant statement condemning Chauvin’s act. Yoes loudly insisted that Chauvin’s action in no way represents what good cops routinely do day in day out. Yoes expressed deep concern that Chauvin’s brutal act would further diminish how the public viewed police officer’s co...

( ThyBlackMan.com) Today, we live in a society where we seem to sprint from one manufactured cultural outrage to the next. The goal posts seem to keep moving regarding what’s appropriate and what’s not, and frankly, it’s quite exhausting. But that’s what the left wants: a numbing of traditional virtues and the degrading of the conservative values that used to define who we are so that the progressives can continue their march toward situational ethics. If it feels right, then do it; if ...

( ThyBlackMan.com) Imagine that a firefighter saves you from a burning building.  Would you immediately call your family physician and thank him for saving your life?  Of course not! Imagine that President Trump just issued a pardon to your son to release him from prison.  Would you immediately call former President Barack Obama and thank him for freeing your son?  Of course not! Then why in the hell would former Vice President Joe Biden admit that the Black vote saved his presidential camp...