Damon Young at Very Smart Brothas writes: There is a sizable percentage of sports fans who steadfastly believe that Lebron James will never be as good as or better at basketball than Michael Jordan was. Note, I didn’t say “believe that Lebron James is currently as good as or better than Michael Jordan.” No, these people believe that Lebron…

Men—professional men, college-aged men, men in schools, seminars, classes, and conferences—are (rightly) taught that women are just as capable, smart, resourceful, determined, and tough as men are. In a business/professional sense, you’re also taught to treat women the same way you’d treat other men. If you’re not able to do this, you face possible reprimand,…

That BBP (Bougie Black People) are in love² with the holy trinity of Black reality television shows (Real Housewives of Atlanta, Basketball Wives, Love and Hip-Hop) is perhaps the BBP’s worst-kept secret. For the uninitiated, each show revolves around a group of extremely well-coiffed 25-to-45-year-old women who have weekly water-throwing battles to help stay in shape.…

At Very Smart Brothas, Damon Young writes: I never quite got what it meant until finally meeting someone who hit me with so many reasons why I needed to be with her that I just couldn’t fight it anymore. I was too fatigued by reason. Too exhausted by realization. Too beat to continue to deny that I’d…

Very Smart Brothas write: Knowing that people are crazy, and crazy people really can’t be trusted, should we all assume that our significant others snoop through all of our stuff? And by stuff I mean cell phones, emails, etc. And by snooping I mean actively breaking into our emails and cell phones and basically committing…

Damon Young writes: I then thought about every other Tyler Perry movie I’ve seen. All (in my opinion) vacillated between “eh” and “eh, this sucks.” These feelings are far from ringing endorsements, but I didn’t hate any of his movies, either. Again, though, this particular form of ambivalence isn’t new for me. I have the…

While a part of me is encouraged to finally see rappers asked to answer for their lyrics, this criticism seems a little disingenuous, and raises more questions than it answers. For instance, why now? We’ve all heard worse lyrics than the ones being criticized now, so where is this pushback coming from? Also, when does it…

Damon Young writes: When seeing the reaction to President Obama’s compliment of Kamala Harris, I couldn’t help but wonder how exactly this would go over in the Obama household. Taking the Pres and the First Lady and any other politics-related concerns about women and sexual harassment and sh-t out of it, and just looking at it as “high status…

Damon Young writes: How To Secure a Loan for $30,000 1. Find the nearest bank. 2. Rob it. 3. Return the next day with all of the money. This will build trust. 4. Do this two more times. After the third time, the bank manager will be so impressed by your magnanimousness that he’ll allow you…

Damon Young writes: Imagine for a moment that you are President Obama. Of course you aren’t because if we pull out your wallet, it will not say “Bad Motherf-cker” on your license. However, for a moment, you can pretend to be. Now imagine that while in the midst of being President Obama and doing something…