Omar Tyree is a New York Times bestselling author who has published more than 30 books and counting and won an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Work of Fiction after graduating from Howard University, cum laude, with a degree in Print Journalism from the School of Communications in 1991. 

Actions Speak Louder (September 2025)

We are now in a social media driven world where every action, idea, joke, slander or thought line can be videotaped, broadcasted and promoted for followership. Where every waking day has become another opportunity of desperate competition for millions of people online who holler, “Look at me! No, look at me! NO, LOOK AT ME!” And we can all get pulled into it.

As a result of so much promoted online material that we now call “content,” we are actually creating some of the most vain, self-centered people who ever walked the planet earth. Seriously! And where we used to promote new projects and products with a designed schedule in mind, we are now able to watch people who videotape themselves taking a routine walk through the park with their family dog while calling it “content” for thousands of people who “follow” them.

But before I call that a little extra, just think about the vanity of the Egyptians, the Greeks and the Romans, who all had their eras of extreme self-appreciation. If you stop and think about it, we have more incredible artifacts that are still standing from those three historical cultures than any others that were produced. 

So, maybe we are now in another one of those incredible cultural zones of history, where we document everything. However, in our continuous attempts to create attention in the middle of a million other vehicles, we can actually lose our focus on what’s really important. And although we all want to be read, watched, talked about (in good ways) and called upon to perform, we have to be cognizant of our various attempts of promotion overtaking the purpose of what we’re doing in the first place. 

For instance, as a writer of books, I would normally take a full year to research, write, edit, design and then promote a new book for the community to evaluate on different topics that were interesting to address in a novel. 

But in today’s community, if I take a year off with nothing to say on social media, a podcast, or a YouTube video, it would be similar to becoming a hermit or dropping off the planet. Like, where did he go? Which forces you to feel anxious about not posting anything, even when you really don’t have anything to say at the moment. 

I battle with that dilemma right now. Do I stick to the pace and tempo that makes more sense for the research, logic and delivery of my normal annual projects? Or do I succumb to the new microwave meals of steady content that “followers” may or may not like, while I knowingly overextend myself?

I’ve seen it done by several media friends of mine, who consistently jump in front of cameras now for a momentary spotlight faster than cheetahs chasing down a wildebeest. 

After a while, it looks pressed and exhausting, particularly when you check your social media numbers and realize that you still haven’t grown a significant audience with all of your content antics. That’s when we can pulled in by the lure of the times that have definitely changed. 

So, I now challenge myself to be resilient in the practice of DOING more than I talk about. You know, you have to remind yourself to hold on to the skills that you’ve already mastered and continue to use them for community good, whether the masses choose to join in and follow you or not.  Because everyone is not going to join you on your mission. And at the end of the day, we all have to make a decision to stick to what we are good at, or run the risk of losing ourselves in the rat race of competition with others, who may not even do what we do, just because they have more “followers” and “engagement” in doing whatever. 

I’m realizing in this new confusion that it’s good for us to maintain consistency in something as professionals, like used to do. Training, experience and consistency is what made us professionals in the first place. Society could count on us to deliver what we need when we need it. And all our talk and promotions on social media won’t ever change that. The bills still need to be paid with work and income—unless you’ve found a way to do so otherwise.

The last time I checked, our ACTIONS still speak louder words or post. So, no matter how many people choose to follow the next man or woman who may be more popular than you are, productivity still comes down to what you can PRODUCE for your community.

Eventually, after all of the talk, promotions, and viral content that floods the social media marketplace each day, we’re all gonna have to show and prove what we’re capable of producing for a living, unless you’ve found a way to monetize your activities. 

And if you’re not a videographer, a comedian, a dancer, a rapper, or a new wave content expert, then we have to maintain comfort, poise and confidence in doing what we still know how to do. I have to remind myself that every day now. We can’t all do everything. So, don’t lose your focus while being hammered by a million new distractions. Keep doing whatever you do that works! That’s exactly what I plan on. Keep your focus.

What about you?

The Bitter TRUTH on EQUALITY in WORK & RELATIONSHIPS

By Omar Tyree (August 2025)

I DID IT! I just toured for two months all across the United States of America from May 30^th to July 30^th., traveling from the hills of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on the East Coast, to the dry desert heat of Phoenix, Arizona, on the West Coast. I did the Northeast with New York and Philly, the Mideast with Baltimore, DC and Virginia, the Southeast with Greensboro, Charlotte, Atlanta and Miami, the Deep South with Mobile, New Orleans, Houston and Dallas, the Midwest with Memphis, St. Louis, Chicago, Detroit, Columbus and Cleveland, and wrapped it all up on the West Coast with Oakland, Los Angeles and Phoenix.

All accounted for, I visited 27 major American cities in 17 different states to discuss the updated release of my Flyy Girl book trilogy, where I analyzed “The Elevation and the Evolution of the American Black Woman,” the topic and title of my last published article here. And throughout the tour, mostly older women and I in the 35-60 age discussed the new woman’s desire for more life and career options as well as full gender equality. 

DJs Social Club ~ St. Louis Missouri in Mid July

A common theme for women was having more than what their mothers or grandmothers had in terms of career, opposite a long-ago time when women worked less outside of the home, made significantly less than their male counterparts when they did, had less education to work with, and generally had less equality or authority in their households. That’s where the age and relationship experience of each woman becomes significant.

What I found was that women in their 40s and up were more willing to accept and comprehend a man’s desire to be “a man” and the obvious heavy in household. These older women were very appreciative of the many gains that women had made over the past 50 years, but women in their 30s and younger seemed to want MORE, where full gender equality is on the menu as the next goal. That’s where things get hazy for the next generation of women.

First of all, I wasn’t around many of the younger women in their 20s while on tour. Some of them were not even born when Flyy Girl was popular during the late 1990s and early 2000s. And without being a social-media influencer in this new era of posts, videos and podcasts, the younger women were less reachable. Nor did I engage many men on tour. So, as expected, I had to explain and defend Black men, because men are rarely in a woman’s space to discuss themselves. It’s very uncomfortable for them. So is a discussion about being “equal” to women.

If anything, Black American men are more prone to think about being “equal” to White men, Asian men, Middle Eastern men, or any man who seems to have an upper hand on him economically, historically, athletically, politically, educationally or in general societal power, and those discussions rarely include a conversation about women.

That’s an awkward reality to stomach, but men think of women more as mates and partners in life than they do an as object of competition. But we are always competing with other men, even with something as menial as height and weight. Men are keenly aware of other men standing taller or wider than they are, and they are always thinking of an angle. It’s the basic survival of manhood. We are very aware that we are capable of annihilating each other. But we don’t feel that way about women. If anything, we want to bring them closer to us, even women we’ve never seen before.

We don’t feel that immediately warm and trusting of another man. We’re on full alert with men, particularly if they seem as capable as we are of delivering some display of power. But we often let that same defensive guard down in response to a woman. Even with an authoritative woman, a man is more likely to tolerate her than fear her. He would only fear the men that she could bring after him.

But as I continued to have these frank national discussions about the honesty of our relationships, I became shockingly aware that women have no idea how much men don’t tell them.  I mean, we are really on two sides of the room. There are simply things that women are innately better at than men, like not wanting to hurt a person’s feelings, which comes in handy for new mothers. Who wants a coldhearted mom who says anything? But with a man, the warmth of fire wood is more important than a hug, or at least until after the fire woods has been collected to warm up the whole house.

Essence New Orleans Convention Center Early July

That’s how men think. We think about the whole. Do we have enough to take care of everyone? And if not, then what are we gonna do about it? What’s the solution? The hug can come later. But that seems insensitive, right? Not for a man. After all, a kid won’t die because of a lack of a hug, but he could definitely freeze to death with no heat. Yet… without a mother’s love, the kid could grow up and not know how to connect with a woman of his own, or with anyone. So, both things are needed, just coming from two different people.

The fact is, by the time a boy turns 14, and his testosterone starts to kick in, he’s thinking more about exploring the anatomy of a girl than trying to compete against her. But he’s surely competing against the guys who may want the same girl. 

In other words, for most men, a woman’s worth is not weighed by what she brings to the table monetarily or power wise, because he’s innately thinking about that role for himself. Why else would he be given superior size and strength that he’s learned how to use accordingly in his manhood?

For men, the answers are all obvious and simple. Men are men and woman are women. And that’s not going to change. So, men don’t spend a lot of time talking about it. Especially not around groups of women, like I was doing. I must have been insane. Some things just aren’t meant for women to hear, or to deal with. So, we allow ourselves to become tactful, decent, gentlemanly and kind with our words when the truth is too vicious to voice out loud.  

And the truth is, men don’t feel comfortable paying women the same salary as a man based on what they know that man has to take care of at home. A man is still considered “the head of the household,” and when he’s not, one could lose respect for the man. Men don’t talk about all of that, because they don’t need to. They already know it. It’s unspoken masculine language. “That man needs to take care of his wife and kids.”

They don’t feel the same way about a woman. They’ll wonder where her man is and who needs to step in for him. Men don’t look at it as a badge of honor that a woman has to raise a family by herself. They either pity her, think about helping her out, or even think of taking advantage of her.

Over time, men can learn to respect the single mothers who remain consistent, but consistency without the full elements of a family can be very difficult. Therefore, men have a tendency to look out for each other in regards of economic fatherhood, especially men of a certain brotherhood, class or race. They know what it takes to be men in their position, and they know how it feels to fail. And so, they decide to respect each other’s manhood with wages that establish dominance.

Again, I’m explaining things here that a man is not going to explain. But when a woman is clearly recognized as making more than him, he is immediately looked upon as a manager more than a boss, which in many cases will make a man feel a need to over establish his manhood, or accept a less manly position of authority. In both cases, a man goes through a mental and spiritual negotiation that women don’t even know exists. And he has to convince himself that’s it’s okay, and that his woman won’t emasculate him. That’s takes a lot of trust.

Do men trust women that much? To put their very souls on the line for their companionship and warmth? Yes. We do. A woman can enter the home of a man and have his full attention in minutes. But no man can enter your home who’s not there to fix something. We would sound the alarm of concern. That’s just how differently men regard women. Women could be the most invincible spies and assassins in the world, and be right under a man’s nose.

Believe it or not, some men feel that money is the only leverage they have over women. In fact, many men feel that way. How loyal would women really be if men were not expected to take care of them? How deep is a woman’s love? Do they really love and remain with men for their personalities and characters?

This is not a lineal conversation. The answers are not laid out in a line. It’s a much more nuanced discussion than that. But if the average woman could collect the same wage, income and job opportunities as the average man, then what’s the point in recognizing them as different genders? In fact, what would be the point in naming different races if there was no intent to separate them?

These discussions on gender and equality could go on forever, and it won’t change a thing. As the natural hunters with more strength and speed who take more risks, by and large, men will continue to be the dominant bread winners in fields where masculine energy thrives. And women will continue to dominate the social fields of life where choices are based more on likes and dislikes. After all, women still have the power to choose who they want to be with. Is that choice equal? No. Nor is the choice of what woman a man may choose. Everyone has their own criteria and it is not based on equality.

The fact is, we are all trying to maintain our advantages while adding new ones at the other player’s expense. Which means that equality is not possible, and the tug-a-wars of gender, race, class, power and control over our human resource and each other will continue forever.

“The Humbling of the Sanders Family”

By Omar Tyree (May 9, 2025)

I remember Deion Sanders—the all-world football player from Fort Myers, Florida, who starred as a very popular defensive back at Florida State University—being drafted in the spring of 1989 to the Atlanta Falcons. He wore at least five to eight gold chains with gold medallions around his neck, big gold finger rings, designer sunshades, and custom-made clothes with a medium-height Jheri curl. And boy was he confidence and cocky at 21 years old. The interviewer, Andrea Kremer, even joked that he had spent his whole signing bonus on his jewelry.

That was more than 35 years ago. And Deion strutted into the National Football League (NFL), where he won two Super Bowl trophies with very popular teams in San Francisco and Dallas to become a Hall of Famer player and a Black American icon, because he was popular in more than just sports. Deion started recording music and was hanging out with all of the cool people in Atlanta, San Francisco, and then Dallas. Even his marriages and romantic life became a public spectacle.

Now we flash forward 35 years later, and Coach Prime, who has led his sons and other kids in youth football leagues in the Dallas, Fort Worth, Texas, area for a number of years before heading over to the HBCU (Historically Black College and University) of Jackson State University in Mississippi, where his two younger sons from a second marriage followed him. And Deion turned the Jackson State University football team into winners immediately with a mix of tough love coaching, innovation, experience, and a staff of a recognition.

Once again, Deion made the national news as everyone inside and outside of the football and sports world spoke highly of him setting such an inspiring example by coaching at a Black American college in need. But after a few years of winning, Deion jumped to the bigger program and money at the University of Colorado, where his two youngest sons and top recruit, Travis Hunter, followed him again and to break headlines in the college sports with the major division of PWIs, or what the Black college world calls Predominantly White Institutions, like the giant programs of Alabama, Georgia, Oregon, UCLA and USC—to name a few.

But this story is not just about Deion, his younger quarterback son, Shedeur, had risen on the college football analyst list as one of the top college passers in Division 1. That meant he was expected to be at least a Top 10 selection in the 2025 NFL Draft in Green Bay on the evening of Thursday, April 24^th at 8 PM Eastern Standard Time.

The conversations of where Shedeur may land were all over the place, including the Cleveland Browns at selection number two, the New York Giants at number three, the New Orleans Saints at number nine, or the Pittsburgh Steelers at number 21. I was hoping for Pittsburgh myself. After losing the young and athletic quarterback Justin Fields to the New York Jets this offseason, Pittsburgh needed a quarterback. However, none of those picks happened for Shedeur.

Instead, we all watched Deion, his quarterback son and the rest of the Sanders family, friends and invited guests at a private party event, where the young and confident quarterback, who was draped in far too much platinum jewelry, went undrafted after thirty-two selections in the first round. The New York Giants even traded back into the first round to draft the third-ranked quarterback, Jaxson Dart at pick number 25.

By that time, I was asking myself out loud, “What the hell is going?” There was no way in the world that 31 other players were more talented than Deion’s boy Shedeur. Then folks started talking about his team interviews at the NFL combine before the draft, and how confident / cocky he had been. Some folks talked about Deion’s comments on podcast and other interviews where he hinted of weening his son away from bad or undesirable football organizations, similar to what Archie Manning had done with his son Eli, who was selected by the San Diego Chargers in 2004 before being swapped to the New York Giants for Phillip Rivers.

The difference was, Archie Manning didn’t play his hand of cards until after his son, Eli, was actually drafted. Nor did Archie have the public persona of Deion Sanders, who could rub people the wrong way with his brash honesty and bravado, particularly the ownership class of old, white men. I realized that something was amidst once the broadcasters asked Mike Tomlin—the most respected and revered Black American coach of the Pittsburgh Steelers—about not drafting Shedeur at number 21, and Tomlin dodged the question.

That spoke volumes to me. When one of the most outspoken and secure Black coaches in the NFL refused to even address the question, you know that something is off. It got worse for the Sanders family after that. Not only did Shedeur get bypassed in the first round, but he was also bypassed in the second round when Cleveland, New Orleans and Pittsburgh all had a second chances to draft him, and they still didn’t do so. In fact, all three teams drafted quarterbacks who were rated lower than Sanders in the second, third and sixth rounds respectively.

After the first two days of the draft, with Sanders not being taken by a team, the entire NFL football world was shocked. But I was no longer confused about it. After watching and listening to the Sanders family parade around their private party with overconfidence, jewelry and braggadocio, I thought back to Cam Ward, who was the #1 draft pick at quarterback in this year’s 2025 NFL selection to the Tennessee Titans, and this cool and calm Black man in a casual suit and one lowkey chain with only his parents in attendance, walked out onto the stage in Green Bay with complete poise and respectable style. And the irony of the draft for Shedeur Sanders hit me immediately.

Deion, Shedeur and the rest of the Sanders family were doing far too much and had definitely pissed off the old, money-earning white men who own at least 28 of the 32 teams in the league, with a couple of women and men of color owning the last three or four teams. So, we all watched a good, old-fashioned humbling of the Sanders family on national television, and after a while, I couldn’t even argue or mad about it. You have learn to respect the powers of the profession that you’re in, and the Sanders family had definitely towed that line, as if they had their own NFL team that they could call the shots on, and they don’t.

So by the time Shedeur was finally taken by the Cleveland Browns in the fifth round of the draft at number 144, the humbled kid found himself excited as ever to join a team who had already drafted a new quarterback in Oregon’s Dillon Gabriel at number 94. Hell, the Browns didn’t even look happy to draft Sanders when the tv network flashed the cameras on their draft room. And not only that, the Cleveland team already has three veteran quarterbacks on their roster in Deshaun Watson, Joe Flacco and Kenny Pickett, who they had just picked up in a trade from Philadelphia.

That’s five competing quarterbacks on a clueless team that never seems to get the most important position in football right. Will Deion Sanders boy Shedeur be able to rise to the top of the competition to play at all this year Cleveland…? We shall soon see.

But one thing’s for sure, even though the high horse-riding quarterback from the Sanders family was viciously humbled by the white male brass of the NFL on draft weekend in Green Bay, the national fanbase still had obviously love for him, as the new Cleveland Browns hopeful ending up becoming the first fifth-round pick in NFL history to sell more jerseys than all of the other 200+ college football players who were drafted with him.

Imagine that for an ironic conclusion to this story. Regardless of how the old white men of American wealth and power feel about this brash, Black and talented Sanders family, the young white and Black man who watch the game look forward to seeing the cocky kid play. And now we’ll all get to see if he was overrated, underrated, or right on point in about five more months when the NFL football season is back in full blast.

The Displaced Lion by Omar Tyree (April 20, 2025)

I can’t lie. I’ve always been more of a cat person than a dog. And it’s interesting when I say that because American men often think about a house cat instead of the big cats. So, they immediately say that they’re dogs, while thinking about a canine’s larger body size and aggression in comparison to a house cat. But what dog can deal with a lion, a tiger, or a jaguar in the jungles? Or even a Black Panther?

The problem is, too many American men only thought locally. But I never thought that way. I always thought about the world around us, and I was interested in traveling to different places, which I’ve been able to do and plan to do a lot more of.

But I actually related more to the word and psychology of cats from watching old Black movies and listening to Black male jazz musicians, who called each other cats all of the time.

“Yeah, man, I met this cat back in Chicago a couple years ago who was mean on the horn. I mean, this joker blew his trumpet like he was trying to be the second coming of Miles Davis. He was bad! You hear me?”

These super cool Black cats never said the word dog unless they were talking about an actual animal. But they called themselves cats regularly. Then I studied their behaviors.

Cats were looked at as being more individualistic hunters. They protected their space, demanded respect, and were not followers of man. Cats seemed to do their own damn thing. In fact, independence is cat behavior. And that’s exactly how I was. I’ve always been an independent thinker and leader who did his own thing rather than compromising as a follower of a group.

But whenever I thought of dogs, I thought more about leashes, walks with men, backyard gates, and a whole lot of barking for no damn reason. I also thought about pack behavior and group mentality, like wolves. And I was not a wolf nor a dog. I was an independent, determined, and ferocious cat, and I was proud to say it.

I also watched a lot of Asian Kung Fu movies as a kid, and there was no such thing as having a dog style of fighting, but there were plenty of tigers, lions, dragons, cranes, and monkeys, which all seemed a lot more interesting and complicated than dogs.

Then I ended up buying a Jaguar car as an adult, which only solidified my interest in the big cats abroad, especially after reading more about the jaguar’s dominance in South America, the tiger’s dominance in Asia, and the lion’s dominance in Africa. So, I was locked in. A cat was the right thing for me to be, like the old school jazz musicians who I admired.

Then the legendary movie, The Lion King, came out in 1994. That was actually some years before I bought my Jaguar SKR sports car from Ford in 2001. And this Lion King movie went on to prove that a lot more people thought nobly about the big cats than dogs. I don’t believe any dog movie could have ever risen to The Lion King level of popularity. With nearly a billion dollars made at the box office for the first film, this proud Disney franchise became an international gem. Then they produced it again as a live action remake in a 2019 that made even more money, breaking a billion and a half US dollars worldwide.

However, while watching the factual delivery of each Lion King movie, including the Mufasa prequel that was released around Christmastime last year, I noted that the writers had to be a little crafty when trying to depict what really happens to the old and young male lions of a pride.

In the three Disney movies that were sanitized for kids, there were few outright battles between the male lions. But in real life, male lions fight each other for dominance and territory constantly, which we saw more of in Mufasa, The Lion King prequel.

In real life, the young male lions don’t get lost or runaway, they are actually kicked out of the family group and abandoned to seek and find a fresh pride of their own to take over. That’s how it works in the jungles of Africa. A young male lion has to learn how to dominate or die. And he’s not allowed to do so in the house of his father, unless the father allows several of his favorite sons to join his rein in a coalition, which immediately makes them all more powerful.

Nothing is more exhilarating in the jungle than seeing five grown male lions walking together in a pride. Just look it up on your cell phone. A family of five adult male lions is absolutely vicious. There are stories of African male lion coalitions taking over thousands of miles of land, while killing dozens of other lions in their quest.

But instead of depicting the true and unapologetic rules of the jungle, The Lion King treated us to a human-like betrayal story of a deceitful brother, Scar, who takes over the pride after successfully plotting against the dominant brother, Mufasa, and his son, Simba, who is expected to be the air to the throne.

In real jungle life, two lion brothers would rarely fight each other after being together for years in a pride. Neither one of them would benefit from that, and if a dominate brother had been dominant for their entire lives, then the less dominant brother is already used to that and would not challenge him. What would typically happen is that another group of ambitions male lions would show up to battle the brothers with a goal of taking over the established pride for themselves, while killing off the young cubs to start over with new offspring of their own from the leftover females. And if a dominant male lion is too old or not ferocious enough to win that battle, he would either be killed or would flee for his life to start over again or die in the jungle, old and alone.

At that point, he would become what I call a “displaced lion” which happens to a lot of dominant males who survive the onslaught of a fight to the finish battle for their pride and territory.

Ironically, the same situation is happening to a lot of Black American men right now. They have become “the displaced lions” who have been challenged by the brutal and unrelenting psychology of slavery from the moment they stepped foot on American soil from African slave ships that were paid for, navigated, and manned by White Europeans.

In fact, Black African men were not even allowed to be dominant. And you had some of the biggest, strongest and bravest African men being killed first to set an example for the rest of them that the White man would not tolerate their insurrections.

Therefore, numerous Black American men learned to be gentle giants who spoke softly, while controlling their natural urges for power, because it was dangerous, not only for them, but for their whole family, who could be executed for have a revolutionary spirit. In fact, entire Black towns have been burned down in American for being revolutionary, whether it was in economics, education, Religion, culture, music, or even farming and agriculture.

When a Black man or woman showed any traces of excellence, ambition and dominance, the White man got nervous, jealous, insecure, and angry, while terrified that the Black man and his woman would eventually take over. So, the obvious goal became keeping the Black man down at any and all costs, because a dominant Black man was indeed frightening, and no opportunistic, greed-inspired White man wanted to see a coalition of five dominant Black men. At no time.

Until Texas Western University allowed five Black men to start for their 1966 college basketball team that won a National Championship over the all-White Kentucky Wildcats. But that’s a whole other story and article, along with the flight victories of the Tuskegee Airmen during World War II, and the undeniable history of the Black cowboys of the American West.

Ironically, the physical, mental, and creative skills of Black male and female athletes, professionals, and artists, continue to stand out as dominant, innovative, driven and exceptional talents. However, despite the years of progress and the millions and billions of American dollars that Black talented individuals now earn for their consistent contributions to the nation, the masses of Black American men remain the highest unemployed group in the country.

In fact, Black women have now surpassed Black men with more jobs, more college degrees, and more secondary degrees, to the point where Black women feel similar to the lionesses of Africa, who do the majority of the hunting just for the man to pop up after the kill to eat. And the sisters are getting tired of it, while not being allowed to marry a dominant, money earning man in groups, like the polygamous African marriages were able to do to avoid the issues of recessive men and stray women.

So, everyone married up to keep the communities strong and connected in the motherlands, where remaining single for too long could kill you, just like the lionesses of Africa. Only the strong and connected survive, not the displaced loners.

Nevertheless, when we now look at the Black male of America, where more than a quarter of the population ends up spending time in prison, while another quarter graduates from college with degrees, we still have nearly half of the Black male population trying to figure out what to do in life. We can’t all become rappers and actors, basketball and football players, taxi and bus drivers, or pimps and drug dealers.

We are now in year 2025 and must be held more accountable to keep pushing ourselves to believe in and achieve higher goals for our manhood. There’s a reason why we have more testosterone, height, muscles, energy, bone density and aggression than the average woman. But if we’re not going to use any of that masculinity to our community advantage, then what’s the point in having it?

Honestly, we still have more “lazy and shiftless” behavior from our young and older males than we can afford right now, particularly with so many young, educated, employed, and ambitious women running of tolerance to deal it. So, our divorce rates are the highest in America as well, breaking up thousands of young Black families that still need a father’s love, discipline, and perspective that Black children are not getting anymore.

We now look more like tigers and jaguars hunting and eating alone than sharing with a full family pride like the African lions do. African lions also spend more time with the cubs that they sire, where economically and emotionally broke American brothers are often not allowed to, while battling over child support, custody, and unforgiven hurt from Black vengeful mothers. Hell, outside of our successes in sports and entertainment, Black men just can’t seem to win, at least not on a mass community level.

Even when the legendary politics and leadership of Barack Obama landed him in the White House as the first and only Black President of the United States of America for eight years from 2009 through 2017, during Obama’s watch, Black men were assaulted, arrested, imprisoned, disrespected and killed in broad daylight all over America. It was as if the national White police authorities decided to send a clear message that “even though you guys got a Black president now, we still run the country.” And they were making sure that we didn’t forget that.

So, as I continue to get older and think about my own legacy and contributions to the culture as a Black man, I often fantasize about moving on from America and the constant stress of trying to prove yourself and your worth to a nation that loves you when you entertain them, while hating you for everything else.

Yup. Before I become a full-fledged “displaced lion” in America myself, with no woman, no kids, no purpose, and no status that means anything, maybe I’ll stop fantasizing and just leave the country instead of only talking about it, so I can see if I could find new love, a new purpose, and new energy in an exotic place like Brazil, Thailand, or even back home in Africa.

And if I don’t choose to stay there, at least I could visit, explore, and write about it as viable option for myself and other cats who no longer desire to follow behind “the man” like dogs in America.

Black Men In America.com welcomes New York Times bestselling author, NAACP Image Award winner, and journalist Omar Tyree for an engaging conversation about his new column on Black Men In America.com, titled “The Black Men’s Perspective.” Known as the “Godfather of Urban Fiction,” Tyree shares insights from his prolific literary career, discusses The State of Black Writing, and explores his vision for the future of storytelling.

With classics like Flyy Girl and For the Love of Money under his belt, Tyree has influenced millions of readers and paved the way for a new generation of writers.

Tyree’s literary journey began at Howard University, where he transferred after completing his first two years at the University of Pittsburgh. He burst onto the literary scene in October 1992, captivating readers with his groundbreaking urban fiction. His classics, such as Flyy Girl, A Do Right Man, Single Mom, Sweet St. Louis, For the Love of Money, Just Say No!, Leslie, Diary of a Groupie, What They Want, The Last Street Novel, Pecking Order, and works from his Urban Griot series (Capital City, College Boy, One Crazy Night, Cold Blooded), have inspired millions of readers and a new generation of writers.

In addition to his urban fiction, Tyree has written extensively in other genres, including nonfiction, poetry, children’s and young adult literature, business, international thrillers, short stories, and autobiographies. Notably, he co-authored Mayor for Life: The Incredible Story of Marion Barry Jr., chronicling the life of Washington, D.C.’s iconic late mayor.

Today, Tyree continues to create impactful literary works and is focused on adapting his stories for film, music, and educational events on a global scale.

Recently, Omar Tyree joined Gary Johnson on the Calculations Talk Show podcast and had an engaging conversation with The Thought Brothers on their podcast. Watch the interviews below to hear Omar’s thoughts on writing, the evolution of Black literature, and his exciting ventures in film, music, and education.

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Here’s a partial video slideshow of Omar Tyree’s work.  Enjoy this visual journey through his groundbreaking books and his enduring impact on the world of literature.”

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