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What’s on my mind:   The reality of human behavior:

• https://www.verywellmind.com/reality-therapy-definition-types-techniques-and-efficacy-5191995#:~:text=Reality%20therapy%20is%20an%20approach,and%20can%27t%20be%20changed. 

News: 

• The bars you see may be closer than they appear:
  •  https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/15/fulton-county-trump-indictment-defendants-00111220
• The fight against fairness: 
  • https://www.reuters.com/legal/starbucks-board-wins-dismissal-shareholder-lawsuit-over-diversity-policies-2023-08-11/
• The distortion of truth: 
  • https://www.mediamatters.org/dennis-prager/lessons-florida-public-school-students-will-learn-prageru-kids
• Even when it works, it doesn’t: 
  • https://thegrio.com/2023/08/17/mississippi-judge-declares-mistrial-brandon-gregory-case-attack-on-black-fedex-driver/
• Mistakes can lead to dead Black people: 
  • https://apnews.com/article/lansing-police-black-child-handcuffed-mistaken-identity-0f362e7280c2705230d4774e8c0f8eed

This shit is for us:    This divide must be breached:

Bible Study with Atheist Mike:  The matrix of destruction:

Closing:  Death of the God Father: 

• https://www.cbsnews.com/news/clarence-avant-dies-age-92-godfather-of-black-music-record-executive/

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What’s on my mind:  The figure and ground of systemic oppression:

• https://academicworks.cuny.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1223&context=kb_pubs

News:

• When I move, you move, just like that:
  • https://thegrio.com/2023/08/07/why-the-montgomery-riverfront-uprising-is-making-black-people-so-damn-happy/
• Who will be at the first GOP Clown Show: 
  • https://apnews.com/article/republican-presidential-debate-2024-election-qualified-candidates-863ffb85147072c4e9cf021e85d4ba1b
• Trump’s new jewelry:
  • https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-lawyers-challenge-limits-evidence-sharing-prosecutors-warn-threats-2023-08-11/
• Thou shalt rob the mutha fuckers blind:
  • https://www.christianheadlines.com/contributors/milton-quintanilla/former-pastor-charged-with-stealing-14-million-in-goods-from-home-depot.html
• Looks can kill:
  • https://newsone.com/4665607/leron-liggins-black-man-judge-says-he-looks-like-criminal/

This shit is for us:   What’s important:

• https://www.catalyst.org/research/structural-racism-black-americans/

Bible Study with Atheist Mike: Why I’m an atheist:

Closing: We ain’t scared:

• https://afrotech.com/venture-capital-fund-fearless-fund-lawsuit

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What’s on my mind:  The futility of racism:

• https://aninjusticemag.com/how-does-racism-hurt-white-people-8ffe67843458

News:

• Felonious Record:
  • https://www.justice.gov/storage/US_v_Trump_23_cr_257.pdf
  • https://apnews.com/article/trump-indicted-jan-6-investigation-special-counsel-debb59bb7a4d9f93f7e2dace01feccdc
• Memphis is not unique: 
  • https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/27/us/memphis-police-civil-rights-investigation.html
• Ibid:
  • https://apnews.com/article/jail-death-atlanta-fulton-county-3bb5ceec625e5b69488d2d51cb076603
• Your god is not real:
  • https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/god-will-not-be-mocked-abby-johnson-warns-christians-not-to-support-vivek-ramaswamy/
• Ibid, again:
  • https://newsone.com/4660409/onyx-black-girl-shot-louisville/

This shit is for us:  Who are we fighting:

• https://www.humanrightscareers.com/issues/root-causes-of-racism/

Bible Study with Atheist Mike: False equivalency:

Closing: Finally, something other than churches and liquor stores:

• https://thegrio.com/2023/08/02/black-woman-creates-vegan-food-bank/

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What’s on my mind:  Augmented Thinking with ChatGPT:

• https://www.mlq.ai/prompt-engineering-advanced-techniques/
• https://www.promptingguide.ai/
• https://hbr.org/2023/06/boost-your-productivity-with-generative-ai

News:

• Criminal docket 2A:
  • https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/27/feds-add-new-charges-against-trump-in-classified-documents-case-00108667
• Does this mean pro-lifers want to fuck an embryo: 
  • https://www.huffpost.com/entry/cole-wagner-alabama-abortion-arrested_n_64bea75fe4b093f07cb58c96
• Can’t follow the money:
  • https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/28/us/politics/tim-scott-money-campaign-funds.html
• Geriatrics on display:
  • https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2023-07-28/feinstein-mcconnell-biden-age-vulnerability-gerentocracy
• If I said it, how can it not be true:
  • https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/prophet-robin-bullock-insists-that-prophets-could-not-possibly-have-been-wrong-about-the-2020-election/

This shit is for us:  Black Economic Networks:

• https://www.rand.org/blog/rand-review/2023/05/what-would-it-take-to-close-americas-black-white-wealth-gap.html
• https://www.officialkwanzaawebsite.org/ujamaa.html

Bible Study with Atheist Mike:  There are no contradictions in the bible…except…:

Closing:   Beauty 2 the Streetz:

• https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/21/us/beauty-2-the-streetz-los-angeles-tiktok-instagram.html?searchResultPosition=1

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What’s on my mind: The Loom of Life:

News: 

• Criminal in chief: 
  • https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4108875-trump-target-letter-hints-at-surprise-approach-from-prosecutors/
• …so, really you owe us reparations: 
  • https://www.thecut.com/2023/07/florida-board-of-education-new-guidelines-black-history.html
• Trump’s dream team is the fucking US Congress: 
  • https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/18/politics/republican-allies-trump-january-6-probe/index.html
• The Republican platform…end democracy: 
  • https://onlysky.media/mclark/the-struggle-for-us-democracy/
• GA Republicans to the SCOTUS…we don’t give a fuck: 
  • https://www.theroot.com/scotus-ruled-in-favor-of-protecting-black-alabama-voter-1850664583

This shit is for us: Towards a Black Philosophy 

Bible Study with Atheist Mike:  How do you know:

Closing:  Celebrate the life of a trailblazer: 

• https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2023/07/14/evelyn-boyd-granville-mathematician-black-dies/

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What’s on my mind: Seeing the world through shit-stained glasses:

• https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5e32157bff63c7446f3f1529/t/5f1739965f252b1d45f0cd4f/1595357599748/Lens-of-Systemic-Oppression.pdf

News:

• Not even political Viagra will help:
  • https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/electile-dysfunction-desantis-flailing-campaign-ruthlessly-mocked-by-financial-times-columnist/ar-AA1dPdSR?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=8b1cab5fdec84e7a99f9dba704e79afe&ei=33
• Three generations of imbeciles are enough: 
  • https://www.thedailybeast.com/anna-duggars-dad-mike-keller-gives-bonkers-racist-sermon-on-slavery
• Clarence Thomas’s everlasting Prime Day:
  • https://www.commondreams.org/news/clarence-thomas-aid-venmo
• The clown show could be coming to an end:
  • https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/13/nyregion/redistricting-democrats-ny.html
• If it walks and quacks like a duck, it’s a mutha fucking duck:
  • https://www.theroot.com/demcrats-put-black-georgia-state-rep-in-office-and-the-1850633061

This shit is for us: Results…not excuses:

• https://www.google.com/books/edition/Let_s_Get_Results_Not_Excuses/Zwe70ppM-4QC?hl=en
• https://smallbusiness.chron.com/difference-between-proactive-reactive-business-strategy-62157.html

Bible Study with Atheist Mike: If Jesus is god…he wasn’t until 325 AD:

• https://www.historyskills.com/classroom/ancient-history/council-of-nicaea/

Closing: Real Black Twitter: 

• https://newsone.com/playlist/black-owned-social-media-platforms/item/9

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What’s on my mind: The death of innocence:

• https://cc.bingj.com/cache.aspx?q=the+new+yorker+before+the+law&d=4890112594808149&mkt=en-US&setlang=en-US&w=mxN4UiUc4YWvxAzQO5f8hwFLK9l6zVyw

News:

• Lindsey Graham’s ability to kiss Trump’s ass not good enough for MAGA nuts:
  • https://www.salon.com/2023/07/03/the-writing-is-on-the-wall-for-lindsey-graham/
• DeSantis’ campaign message is that he is even more racist than Trump: 
  • https://www.alternet.org/Bank/uniformity-inequity-exclusion-desantis-dei/
• If only they’d known:
  • https://www.nbcnews.com/news/crime-courts/texas-pastor-pleads-guilty-possession-child-sex-abuse-images-rcna92329
• The Right’s Orwellian level doublespeak:
  • https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/the-abcs-of-moms-for-liberty-summit-speakers/
• Black farmers to be given lubricant before being fucked:
  • https://www.theroot.com/black-farmers-have-faced-decades-of-discrimination-now-1850615112

This shit is for us: Are we all in this together:

• https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2019/04/09/race-in-america-2019/

Bible Study with Atheist Mike: … strait is the gate, and narrow is the way:

Closing: for the will of the people: 

• https://newsone.com/4635039/mutulu-shakur-dies/

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What’s on my mind: The massive gravity of racism:

News:

• The court sides with racist, what else is new:
• The court also sides with white Christian nationalist: 
• It’s all SCOTUS this week:
• Let them eat cake:
• The value of life:

This shit is for us: Ultimately, it’s always personal:

Bible Study with Atheist Mike: Catholic versus Protestant:

Closing: Not far from the tree:

Show Notes:

What's on my mind: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/370707166_Racism_and_the_mechanisms_maintaining_racial_stratification_in_Black_families

News:

• SCOTUS ends Affirmative Action: https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-views-whoopi-goldberg-shreds-clarence-thomas-on-affirmative-action-youre-full-of-it
• SCOTUS elevates religion:   https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/29/us/politics/supreme-court-religion-sabbath-postal-worker.html
• SCOTUS erodes LGBTQ rights: https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-gay-rights-website-designer-aa529361bc939c837ec2ece216b296d5
• SCOTUS cancels debt forgiveness: https://apnews.com/article/black-americans-health-disparities-takeaways-434d87016d1e1e7ebd88752792be9acc
• Two incidents show not all life is the same:   https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/23/world/europe/titan-sub-greek-migrant-boat.html

This shit is for us:   https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.780615/full

Bible Study:   https://flexbooks.ck12.org/user:zxbpc2rzcziwmthaz21hawwuy29t/cbook/world-history-studies_episd/section/6.2/primary/lesson/the-protestant-reformation-and-catholic-counter-reformation/

Closing: https://blacknews.com/news/audrey-muhammad-hasana-black-mom-daughter-graduate-debt-free-share-success-secrets/

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What’s on my mind: Can you think yourself into right living:

• https://www.huffpost.com/entry/choice-theory_b_58ac99c6e4b0ead5f0d41ec7
• https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/path-optimal-living/202106/what-is-right-thinking

News:

• Dick indictment update:
  • https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/20/politics/cnn-poll-trump-indictment-republicans-2024/index.html
• Fuck DeSantis…again: 
  • https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/other/ron-desantis-pushes-racist-tropes-in-latest-comments-about-basketball-and-baseball-players/ar-AA1cSEWc?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=abefe984e0bb442987e5bcd85817bd73&ei=12
• They’re all crazy:
  • https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/mario-murillo-warns-that-false-prophets-are-endangering-trumps-reelection-thanks-to-right-wing-watch/
• Systemic racism equals systemic death:
  • https://apnews.com/article/black-americans-health-disparities-takeaways-434d87016d1e1e7ebd88752792be9acc
• I’m rich…bitch:
  • https://www.theroot.com/the-richest-black-people-in-the-world-updated-1848838705/slides/18

This shit is for us: When your mind is your enemy:

• https://envs.ucsc.edu/internships/internship-readings/freire-pedagogy-of-the-oppressed.pdf

Bible Study with Atheist Mike: Knowledge or the bible:

• https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/faith-and-foolishness/

Closing: The person with the most flexibility wins: 

• https://blacknews.com/news/miona-short-black-astrophysicist-makes-history-again-haircare/

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What’s on my mind: The corrosive nature of false information:

• https://sonomasun.com/2018/02/07/the-devolution-of-consciousness/
• https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/think-well/202205/is-misinformation-worse-covid

News:

• The Trump indictment deep dive:
  • https://apnews.com/article/trump-indictment-documents-922839660373
• What Christians want: 
  • https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/born-in-blood-maga-pastor-kent-christmas-delivers-a-shocking-sermon/
• Youth Pastor convicted of…well, you know:
  • https://www.nj.com/news/2023/06/youth-pastor-who-admitted-blackmailing-boys-into-performing-sex-acts-online-sentenced-to-prison.html
• Southern Baptist say, “it’s not me, it’s god”:
  • https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/14/us/southern-baptist-women-pastors-ouster.html
• To many white people Black lives are dangerous:
  • https://thegrio.com/2023/06/15/forty-percent-white-people-black-lives-matter-movement-dangerous/

This shit is for us: Unhealthy hope:

• https://ia600203.us.archive.org/5/items/facesatbottomofw00bellrich/facesatbottomofw00bellrich.pdf

Bible Study with Atheist Mike: Hell is where the mind is:

• https://www.deccanchronicle.com/lifestyle/viral-and-trending/190418/what-is-hell-heres-what-an-expert-says.html

Closing: Our children are our future: 

• https://www.blackenterprise.com/9-year-old-tech-guru-elvis-muchiri-teaches-simple-computer-hacks-on-tiktok/

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