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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) 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, the once iconic film company explained why each movie was being pulled. For “Dumbo,” they expl...

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 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) 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 point. My current concern is that this direction in pedagogy that purports by inuendo that math is ba...