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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 on a female co-worker with blatantly sexist and offensive digs. Finally, you had two Georgetown law...

( 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 that will do much to put Joe and her in the Oval Office. The first is don’t get in the gutter wit...

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 conduct. Yoes was praised for his forthright condemnation of Chauvin. But a year earlier in April 2019...

ThyBlackMan.com) Almost certainly Meghan Markle had to know the moment she became the Jackie Robinson of British royalty; she’d always be a target. But at first there seemed to be a bit of naivety if not on her part about the backlash of racism she’d be hammered with, but on the part of hubby Prince Harry. Two years before their 2018 marriage, Harry lashed out at the perennially gossipy, muck raking British tabloids for what he termed the “ wave of abuse and harassment” against his fiancé. He could have saved his breath. It was the rare moment when there wasn’t some tidbit of goss...

( ThyBlackMan.com) If Lebron James had a nickel for every time he’s been told to shut up and just stick to dribbling and shooting the ball, he’d never have to collect a penny from the Lakers. He’d be rich beyond his wildest dreams. AC Milan striker Zlatan Ibrahimovicis the latest in the long train of James’s critics to tell him just play ball and say nothing about politics. As he’s done each time, he’s been hit with the jibe of keep your trap shut about racial injustice, police abuse, politics, and social issues, Lebron James hit back hard.  He made clear he’ll use his celebri...