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(ThyBlackMan.com) Some days a man can sit alone in complete silence and still feel pressure all around him. Bills waiting. Work draining him. Children needing his attention. Expectations coming from every direction. Then somewhere during those long nights, thoughts start creeping into his head that he never says out loud. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Sober people prefer to hear the truth, even if some truths make them uncomfortable, because they know, as serious people, they can handle whatever the truth implies. Maturity should be the state in which reality can be faced, flinching or unflinchingly, and be accommodated without undue alarm. It is ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Ona Judge escaped George Washington once. Now the federal government is trying to make her disappear again. I teach in Philadelphia, a short walk from the site of the President’s House. George and Martha Washington lived there when the city was the nation’s capital. Nine enslaved people lived there ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Breaking generational patterns as a Black father does not start with some big speech. It starts when you finally sit still long enough to look at yourself for real. Not what you show people, but what is actually there. I had to do that. Had to look back at ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) When the U.S. Constitution was adopted in 1787, the words, “We the People of the United States in order to form a more perfect Union,” were written as the opening of the Constitution’s statement of purpose. The “We the People” reference is a statement of inclusion that sounds inspiring ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “As The World Turns,” you can count on radical Black liberal Democrat operatives trying to convince “The Young and The Restless” that they should begin “To Search for Tomorrow” because Donald Trump and the “racist” U.S. Supreme Court is dismantling “The Guiding Light” of the Voting Rights Act of ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I been noticing something shift over these past few years, and it is not small. You go into a gym now, or even a park on a Saturday morning, and you see more Black men moving together. Not just lifting side by side, but really locked in. Talking, pushing, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I know, this is quite the rhetorical question, but the response goes far deeper than just saying, “because they hate President Trump.” Last week, the SecWar and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff testified before both the House and Senate Armed Services Committees for the first time since ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Imagine over 60 years of loving care and attention were spent constructing a fence around part of your garden to keep it safe. Then one morning, in the name of progress, some of it was ripped down – in a matter of minutes. That was essentially what happened last ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) King Charles of the UK came to the US a few days ago, apparently to fix the frayed ties with the U. S. Since the King had a brother involved in the Epstein crimes, he was asked to speak to the women who were the victims of the crimes. Such a ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In Washington, the name on a bill is often the opposite of what it does. The Main Street Depositor Protection Act is the latest example. The name sounds noble. The math is not. Here is what the bill would change. The FDIC is the federal agency that pays you ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I’m going to say something a lot of brothers don’t really want to hear, but need to hear anyway. Some of that weight you putting on ain’t just from food. It’s coming from everything you holding in. I’ve been around this fitness game long enough to see the same ...