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  • Rational Black Thought Episode #156 September 30, 2023 - "As a Black man I am not going to allow myself to be programmed to not love myself” …Sean Combs

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    What’s on my mind: The human monoprint:

    • https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/philosophy-dispatches/201205/what-does-it-mean-be-human 

    News: 

    • The closest Trump should get to WH again, is a fed courthouse for trial: 
      • https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/09/the-5-craziest-details-from-cassidy-hutchinsons-trump-book.html
    • We’re all dumber after hearing you: 
      • https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2023/09/gop-primary-debate-republican-september/675476/
    • Dad, why do you have the knife?: 
      • https://lawandcrime.com/crime/dad-why-do-you-have-the-knife-youth-pastor-who-called-himself-a-monster-stabbed-wife-and-5-kids-because-of-looming-eviction-financial-troubles-affidavit-says/
    • Basket of fucking deplorables: 
      • https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/28/us/politics/biden-mccain-library.html
    • Oh sorry, I didn’t see you standing there: 
      • https://thegrio.com/2023/09/26/young-gymnast-receives-apology-gymnastics-ireland-skipped-medal-ceremony/

    This shit is for us:  Get the vaccine:

    • https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/identity-politics/ 

    Bible Study with Atheist Mike: Any fucking day now…:

    • https://people.howstuffworks.com/second-coming.htm

    Closing:   The Little Mermaid gives back: 

    • https://thegrio.com/2023/09/28/halle-bailey-supports-black-women-in-performing-arts-with-a-10000-angel-scholarship/

    Power Concedes Nothing without a Demand...

    1 hr 30 min
  • Rational Black Thought Episode #155 September 23, 2023 - – If the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought…Dante

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    What’s on my mind:  We are already in hell:

    • https://polygyan.medium.com/dantes-9-circles-of-hell-inferno-c1ecd922539a 

    News: 
    ·   This is stupidity:

    • https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/2023/09/this-is-stupidity-house-republican-slams-mccarthy-and-his-clown-show-of-lunatics-as-clock-ticks-toward-shutdown/ 

    ·   So, we want more of this?:

    • https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/2-former-east-cleveland-officers-guilty-robbing-people-traffic-stops-s-rcna105026 

    ·   So, we want more of this? II:

    • https://people.com/seattle-police-officer-under-investigation-for-jokes-about-grad-student-killed-7969630 

    ·   They’re not dead, they’re zombies:

    • https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jul/31/idaho-mother-murder-children-life-sentence-prison-lori-vallow-daybell 

    ·   As judged by whom:

    • https://thegrio.com/2023/09/20/its-code-jann-wenner-rolling-stone-and-the-irony-of-black-musical-articulation/ 


    This shit is for us: When people became things:

    • https://ldhi.library.cofc.edu/exhibits/show/africanpassageslowcountryadapt/introductionatlanticworld/african_origins_american_adapt

    Bible Study with Atheist Mike:  The logic of the illogical:

    • https://www.atheistalliance.org/blog/why-counter-apologetics-an-introduction-to-apologetics-and-its-methods/

    Closing:   Power behind the throne: 

    • https://www.theroot.com/the-black-man-you-need-to-know-in-the-white-house-1850828702

    Power Concedes Nothing without a Demand...

    1 hr 37 min
  • Rational Black Thought Episode #154 September 16, 2023 - Our problem is the disintegration of a sense of peoplehood…Asa Hilliard

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    What’s on my mind:  The disintegration of personhood:

    • https://muse.jhu.edu/article/720332/pdf 

    News: 

    • What have we become: 
      • https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/09/mitt-romney-hero-coward-trump.html
    • Preview of war: 
      • https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-politics-violence/
    • Do you remember this ugly “b”: 
      • https://www.friendlyatheist.com/p/christian-bigot-kim-davis-owes-100000
    • And god said, look at those tits: 
      • https://kixs.com/texas-pastor-sexual-assault/
    • Just-Fucking-Us: 
      • https://newsone.com/4717836/elijah-mcclain-timeline-death-case-trial/

    This shit is for us: Demystifying African Rights of Passage:

    • https://www.africanholocaust.net/ritesofpassage/ 

    Bible Study with Atheist Mike: The Big Lie:

    • https://medium.com/new-choices/thank-god-theres-no-such-thing-as-miracles-43f8d89d8567

    Closing:  Pure magic: 

    • https://blackstarnews.com/coco-gauff-wins-1st-grand-slam-title-with-wild-comeback/

    Power Concedes Nothing without a Demand...

    1 hr 41 min
  • Rational Black Thought Episode #153 September 9, 2023 - We Are Not Born Revolutionary. Revolutionaries are forged through constant struggle"…James Forman

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    What’s on my mind: The psychology of revolt:

    •  https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2352250X2030021X

    News: 

    • Pence tries to grow a pair…and fails: 
      • https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/06/us/politics/pence-populism-speech.html
    • Not so proud now huh: 
      • https://apnews.com/article/enrique-tarrio-capitol-riot-seditious-conspiracy-sentencing-da60222b3e1e54902db2bbbb219dc3fb
    •  They are ready, are you:
      • https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/mike-huckabee-and-other-right-wing-leaders-escalate-threats-of-electoral-violence/
    • Taking from those that have nothing: 
      • https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/youth-pastor-charged-robbing-sexually-assaulting-women/
    • Just-Fucking-Us: 
      • https://www.theroot.com/nearly-50-years-ago-he-was-wrongfully-convicted-of-a-c-1850809353


    This shit is for us: Fuck around and find out:

    • https://www.newyorker.com/books/under-review/the-unknown-history-of-black-uprisings 


    Bible Study with Atheist Mike:  Attributes of knowing:

    • https://www.newyorker.com/books/under-review/the-unknown-history-of-black-uprisings

    Closing: I hate Black first…but:

    • https://thechurchoftruth.org/god-is-not-omniscient-tower-of-babble/

    Power Concedes Nothing without a Demand...

    1 hr 29 min
  • Rational Black Thought Episode #152 September 2, 2023 - “…our beautiful youth...”

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    Intro: “We can no longer allow them to under-educate, mis-educate, and control the minds of our beautiful youth, turning them into “Negro puppets” of poison, who feast upon a filthy diet of their own self-hatred.” Robin Taylor Nixon

    Feedback: What’s on my mind: The psychology of hate:

    •  file://C:\\Users\mdche\AppData\Local\Temp\MicrosoftEdgeDownloads\8bbd1c54-45b1-4a71-8c25-9323e37773c6\psyofhatred.pdf


    News: 

    • If America is not racist, why does it produce racists: 
      • https://www.voanews.com/a/report-african-americans-remain-top-target-of-hate-crimes/7246965.html
    • Giuliani is liable: 
      • https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/30/judge-rules-giuliani-is-liable-for-defaming-georgia-election-workers-orders-sanctions-00113462
    • The ghost of Christmas past: 
      • https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/30/us/politics/mitch-mcconnell-freeze-kentucky.html
    • When people tell you who they are…fucking believe them: 
      • https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/extreme-accountability-stew-peters-delivers-a-bloodthirsty-rant-at-the-latest-reawaken-america-event/
    • Just-Fucking-Us: 
      • https://www.theroot.com/before-a-fulton-county-inmate-was-found-dead-he-sent-a-1850787506

    This shit is for us: The making of a Negro:

    • https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2022/11/07/10-facts-about-black-republicans/ 


    Bible Study with Atheist Mike: The one god myth:

    • https://www.patheos.com/blogs/crossexamined/2013/02/polytheism-in-the-bible/

    Closing:  Success is never overnight: 

    • https://www.blackenterprise.com/jamila-robinson-editor-in-chief-at-conde-nast/ 

    Power Concedes Nothing without a Demand...

    1 hr 36 min
  • Rational Black Thought Episode #151 August 26, 2023 - “… I'm going to try to find out the new ideas before the others do.” Ella Fitzgerald

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    What’s on my mind: Risk without fear:

    •  https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/thought-experiment/
    • https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/job.2658

    News: 

    • Disappearing proof: 
      • https://www.npr.org/2023/08/18/1194559233/trump-cancels-press-conference-on-election-fraud-claims-citing-attorneys-advice
    • Rats off a sinking ship: 
      • https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/aug/23/trump-witness-false-testimony-flipped-mar-a-lago
    • Clown show analysis: 
      • https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/08/23/who-won-republican-debate/
    • TN is pro-life...only before it is life: 
      • https://www.grundycountyherald.com/news/palmer-pastor-arrested-for-attempted-child-rape-drugs/article_373966bf-f388-5dfc-8ebc-bfdeadfd7537.html
    • Black students told; you’ll never amount to a damn thing: 
      • https://www.theroot.com/black-florida-students-get-beyond-scared-straight-over-1850770013


    This shit is for us:  Do you have your travel papers:

    • https://www.vox.com/politics/2023/5/22/23733060/desantis-florida-naacp-travel-advisory-lulac-equality 


    Bible Study with Atheist Mike: Bears and Baldheads: A Cautionary and Curious Tale:

    • https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/morality-definition/

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

    Power Concedes Nothing without a Demand...

    1 hr 29 min
  • Rational Black Thought Episode #150 - August 19, 2023 - We the people that are darker than blue…Curtis Mayfield

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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/

    Power Concedes Nothing without a Demand...

    1 hr 31 min
  • Rational Black Thought Episode #149 August 12, 2023 - Fly like an Eagle… Steve Miller Band

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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

    Power Concedes Nothing without a Demand...

    1 hr 45 min
  • Rational Black Thought Episode #148 August 5, 2023 - You may write me down in history, With your bitter, twisted lies, You may trod me in the very dirt, But still, like dust, I’ll rise. Maya Angelo

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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/


    Power Concedes Nothing without a Demand...

    1 hr 32 min
  • Rational Black Thought Episode #147 July 29, 2023 - I think with [AI] we’ll augment our intelligence.”

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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

    Power Concedes Nothing without a Demand...

    1 hr 39 min

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