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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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What’s on my mind: Can you make a difference:

• https://www.fingerprintforsuccess.com/blog/how-to-make-a-difference#:~:text=Whether%20you%E2%80%99re%20eager%20to%20figure%20out%20how%20to,Find%20a%20cause%20you%20care%20about%20and%20act

News:

• 2 down, 3 to go:
  • https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/06/08/us/trump-indictment-documents
• Worms in the woodwork: 
  • https://apnews.com/article/capitol-riot-actor-jay-johnston-bobs-burgers-5221271f878a92df59d8f224b9772f16
• Is this justice:
  • https://apnews.com/article/school-shooting-6yearold-newport-news-abby-zwerner-6919841d0216e132326d2e0df3f92412?utm_source=ForYou&utm_medium=HomePage&utm_id=Taboola
• The worth of Black lives:
  • https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/advocates-call-for-abolishing-stand-your-ground-laws-after-ajike-owens-s-death/ar-AA1cg7St?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=a6c9b69371aa4e2f88be7f5bc9764082&ei=13
• Good Riddance:
  • https://www.npr.org/2023/06/08/584849772/pat-robertson-dies-televangelist-and-a-leader-of-the-religious-right

This shit is for us: The Black political agenda:

• https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/gary-declaration-national-black-political-convention-1972/

Bible Study with Atheist Mike: Freewill is incompatible with a god:

• https://thatatheist.com/why-the-christian-god-is-incompatible-with-free-will/

Closing: To boldly go… 

• https://www.sacurrent.com/arts/aerospace-engineer-tracy-drain-will-take-listeners-across-the-universe-in-nat-geo-live-talk-31840795

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What’s on my mind: The motivating power of pain:

• https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5350036/#:~:text=The%20sensation%20of%20pain%20generates,is%20rewarding%20(see%20below).

News:

• Trump testifies against himself:
  • https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/01/us/politics/trump-recording-documents-evidence.html
• Racist even hate the image of Black people: 
  • https://www.theroot.com/not-even-a-sculpture-of-a-black-woman-can-escape-racist-1850475565?utm_source=msnlink
• A strategy of ignorance and lies:
  • https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/worse-than-watergate-how-the-right-uses-disinformation-to-generate-outrage-and-conspiracy-theories/
• Peeping Tom pastor:
  • https://www.thestate.com/news/local/article275957511.html
• Another history lesson banned in Florida:
  • https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/01/us/spelling-bee-marie-bolden-medal-search.html

This shit is for us: Anatomy of injustice:

• https://www.nola.com/news/courts/13-years-after-henry-glovers-death-no-decision-on-murder-charges-from-da-leon-cannizzaro/article_e0e46ca2-7551-583a-a12a-b1c11719867d.html

Bible Study with Atheist Mike: Religion, a net negative:

• https://sofoarchon.com/the-negative-effects-of-religion-on-society/

Closing: Black stars 

• https://blacknews.com/news/matthew-graham-young-black-lawyer-shatters-bar-exam-record-breaking-score/

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What’s on my mind: Is it too late:

• https://chat.openai.com/

News:

• This is what happens when one asshole joins another:
  • https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/24/technology/elon-musk-desantis-twitter.html
• It is always about race: 
  • https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/22/nyregion/a-mother-smoked-weed-her-baby-was-put-in-foster-care.html?smid=url-share
• Three losers sent to prison:
  • https://apnews.com/article/stewart-rhodes-oath-keepers-seditious-conspiracy-sentencing-b3ed4556a3dec577539c4181639f666c
  • https://apnews.com/article/jan-6-capitol-attack-pelosi-desk-000f57444992a716a843a3bde71a2b20
• They never know a goddamn thing:
  • https://www.baptistpress.com/resource-library/news/prestonwood-minister-arrested-in-sex-sting/
• The erasure of Black history:
  • https://twitter.com/profgabrielle/status/1641404337288036355

This shit is for us: Anatomy of oppression:

• https://www.theguardian.com/news/ng-interactive/2023/mar/30/the-slave-trade-and-the-deep-south-accounting-for-the-cotton-capitals-human-cost

Bible Study with Atheist Mike: A core component of all religions is, don’t think:

• https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-critical-thinkers-lose-faith-god/

Closing: Saving the past 

• https://thegrio.com/2023/05/25/colored-school-no-4-black-children-slavery-nyc-landmark/

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What’s on my mind: The art of wokeness:

• https://www.languagehumanities.org/what-is-general-semantics.htm

News:

• Rudy fucked up but no one is talking about it:
  • https://www.salon.com/2023/05/16/thats-an-actual-crime-experts-stunned-at-alleged-giuliani-plot-to-sell-pardons-for-2m/#:~:text=The%20complaint%20also%20states%20that,with%20then%2DPresident%20Donald%20Trump.
• MTG channels Carolyn Bryant Donham: 
  • https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4010532-greene-says-she-feels-threatened-by-bowman-after-capitol-steps-encounter/
• Here is one reason they want to ban abortions:
  • https://www.thedailybeast.com/texas-pastor-who-backed-anti-abortion-bill-arrested-for-child-sexual-abuse
• Who is imposing their views on whom:
  • https://friendlyatheist.substack.com/p/this-atheists-kids-filmed-their-bus
• A clear indication that America is a racist state:
  • https://newsone.com/4585199/jordan-neely-daniel-penny-donations/

This shit is for us: The most important value:

• https://spiritquestvillage.com/blog/principles-of-maat
• https://www.colorado.edu/journal/assembly/2021/03/16/race-grounded-reciprocity-manifesto

Bible Study with Atheist Mike: A brief history of religion in Black communities:

• file://C:\\Users\mdche\AppData\Local\Temp\MicrosoftEdgeDownloads\44236c7a-6cdd-4748-8d4b-eb4f2ec7624c\188350-Article Text-478495-1-10-20190725.pdf

Closing: Growing Black leaders: 

• https://thegrio.com/2023/05/12/national-executive-leadership-academy-develops-black-leaders/

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