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What’s on my mind: Democrats can’t fuck this up: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/08/us/politics/ketanji-brown-jackson-black-voters.html

News:

• Text from Trump son is said to plan overturning election: https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/08/politics/donald-trump-jr-meadows-text/index.html
• This is Justice in America: https://www.npr.org/2022/04/08/1091769554/2-found-not-guilty-in-michigan-governor-kidnapping-plot, https://www.politico.com/news/2022/04/06/judge-issues-first-outright-acquittal-of-jan-6-riot-defendant-00023493
• It is it always small crimes: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/12/nyregion/brian-benjamin-arrested.html
• The Constitution did not envision Florida Man, when they wrote the 2nd Amendment: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ellievhall/shooting-teens-bulletproof-vest-florida
• SoHo Karen pleads guilty to hate crime: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/woman-pleads-guilty-hate-crime-wrongly-accusing-black-teen-stealing-ph-rcna23942

This shit is for us: The myth of black progress: https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2020/02/27/examining-the-black-white-wealth-gap/

Bible Study with Atheist Mike: The bible says what: https://www.ranker.com/list/bible-passages-use-against-fundamentalists/ivana-wynn

Closing: Family of artist Jean-Michel Basquiat keeps his legacy:  https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/family-artist-jean-michel-basquiat-keeps-legacy-alive-new-exhibit-rcna23433

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What’s on my mind: Who’s my audience for RBT and what do I want them to do?

News:

• Jackson Confirmed: https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/04/07/us/ketanji-brown-jackson-vote-scotus
• No justice for Amir Locke: https://www.thecut.com/2022/04/a-no-knock-warrant-led-to-the-police-shooting-of-amir-locke.html
• If you are white, you are presumed innocent, even after you are proven guilty: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/22/books/review/scoundrel-sarah-weinman.html
• Churches played an active role in slavery and segregation: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/churches-played-active-role-slavery-segregation-want-make-amends-rcna21291
• This doesn’t matter, but it really does: https://newsone.com/4315426/tom-cotton-ketanji-brown-jackson-nazis/

This shit is for us: Is violence ever warranted? 

Bible Study with Atheist Mike: Why I hate Religion:

Closing: Pioneering Park Ranger Betty Reid Soskin: https://newsone.com/4313803/activist-betty-reid-soskin-national-park-service-retirement/

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What’s on my mind: A Systems Analytic Explanation for the Shitshow we Live in: https://www.agile42.com/en/blog/cynefin-framework#:~:text=The%203%20basic%20types%20of,%3B%20ordered%2C%20complex%20and%20chaotic., https://www.agile42.com/en/blog/cynefin-framework#:~:text=The%203%20basic%20types%20of,%3B%20ordered%2C%20complex%20and%20chaotic.

News:

• Gini Thomas’ push to overthrow the US government: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/03/24/virginia-thomas-mark-meadows-texts/
• Trump is still fucking at it: https://newsone.com/4311763/donald-trump-vladimir-putin-info-hunter-biden/
• Horrific sexual abuse endured by survivor linked to Jacksonville church: https://www.news4jax.com/news/local/2022/03/30/arrest-warrant-details-horrific-sexual-abuse-endured-by-survivor-linked-to-north-jacksonville-church/
• Biden kicks a couple of idiots off the Presidential Council of Sports: https://www.blackenterprise.com/president-biden-requests-mehmet-oz-and-herschel-walker-resign-from-presidential-council-or-be-fired/
• Black women running in the 2022 Midterms, we need to elect them: https://newsone.com/4310433/record-number-black-women-are-running-2022-midterms-elect-them/

This shit is for us: What is “Race”: https://nmaahc.si.edu/learn/talking-about-race/topics/historical-foundations-race

Bible Study with Atheist Mike: The Biblical End of Days: 

Closing: Ariana DeBose makes history with a best supporting actress win: https://www.npr.org/2022/03/27/1088846361/ariana-debose-oscar-best-supporting-actress

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What’s on my mind: Allow me to Retort…: https://www.amazon.com/Allow-Me-Retort-Black-Constitution/dp/1620976811

News:

• The GOP Staged a Racist Shit Show at Ketanji Brown Jackson’s SCOTUS Hearings: https://www.thedailybeast.com/gops-racist-clown-show-at-supreme-court-nominee-ketanji-brown-jacksons-confirmation-hearings
• Here’s what you get when racism and religion fuck and have a baby girl: https://hillreporter.com/watch-former-gop-senate-candidate-lauren-witzke-comes-out-in-favor-of-arranged-marriage-dowries-127220
• And some say we should want more cops on the streets: https://thegrio.com/2022/03/23/torture-and-murder-ronald-greene-case-turns-cop-vs-cop/
• How it’s done: https://www.theroot.com/black-women-led-philanthropy-to-grant-1-05-mil-to-blac-1848693610
• Anti-Vax Cop wins the Herman Cain Award…good fucking riddance: https://www.thedailybeast.com/robert-lamay-anti-vax-washington-state-trooper-who-railed-at-jay-inslee-dies-after-covid-battle

This shit is for us: We can’t win without women: https://www.blackpast.org/global-african-history/yaa-asantewaa-mid-1800s-1921/, https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/black-women-move-forefront-fight-racial-equality-n756416

Bible Study with Atheist Mike: Overlapping Crazies, why religion always leads to atrocities: https://ffrf.org/uploads/legal/Christian_Nationalism_and_the_Jan6_Insurrection-2-9-22.pdf

Closing: Belated honor to a group of Black women veterans: https://newsone.com/4308232/all-black-women-wwii-unit-awarded-congressional-gold-medal/

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What’s on my mind: The Centre cannot hold …: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43290/the-second-coming

News:

• Is God causing the war in Ukraine: https://www.bradenton.com/news/nation-world/national/article259276904.html
• If evolution is real, why we still got Herschel Walker: https://onlysky.media/hemant-mehta/herschel-walker-denies-evolution-why-are-there-still-apes/
• With the attack on CRT, this hate crime in a high school may soon be acceptable: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/hate-crime-charge-teen-recorded-whipping-classmate-rcna20469 
• Moscow Court Extends Brittney Griner’s Arrest: https://www.theroot.com/moscow-court-extends-brittney-griner-s-arrest-until-may-1848666645
• Pastor Arrested on Allegations He Possessed ‘Numerous Images of Child Pornography: https://lawandcrime.com/crime/baptist-pastor-arrested-after-search-warrant-alleges-he-possessed-numerous-images-of-child-pornography-following-nearly-six-year-investigation/

This shit is for us: The devolution of the Republican party: https://www.ncpedia.org/lily-white-politics

Bible Study with Atheist Mike: White too long, racism and Christianity: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/18/books/review/white-too-long-robert-p-jones.html

Closing: Belated happy International Day of the Woman: https://newsone.com/4102665/international-womens-day-maia-chaka-felecia-nave-mia-schultz/

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What’s on my mind: Don’t push me cause I’ close to the edge…:  https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5d824da4727dfb5bd9e59d0c/t/615c7ae7c1b58c7f92fb2ce1/1633450730356/Black+Nonreligious+Americans+-+A+Brief+from+the+U.S.+Secular+Survey.pdf

News:

• The Ukraine Crisis and Anti-Blackness In Immigration: https://newsone.com/4301129/ukrainian-refugee-crisis-spotlights-anti-blackness-immigration-system-undocublack/
• U.S. Senate passes anti-lynching bill: https://thegrio.com/2022/03/08/senate-passes-emmett-till-anti-lynching-bill/
• Update on Black man who punched a white man to death for calling him the N-word: https://newsone.com/4301409/lenient-sentence-for-black-florida-man-who-fatally-punched-white-man/
• 2020 Census Undercounted Hispanic, Black and Native American Residents: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/10/us/census-undercounted-population.html
• Another Black man accused of robbery trying to withdraw his own money from BoA: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/black-panther-director-was-falsely-accused-of-robbery-at-bank-of-america-it-s-eerily-similar-to-a-black-lawyer-s-experience/ar-AAUU0YT?ocid=msedgntp

This shit is for us: Do Ukrainian Lives Matter:

Bible Study with Atheist Mike: Why are you a Christian? Because of geography:  https://www.jstor.org/stable/3511951?read-now=1&seq=12#page_scan_tab_contents, https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/staff/gyaccp/geography and religion.pdf

Closing: Thanks to Robert Marshall for telling his story: https://www.theroot.com/exclusive-robert-marshall-sexual-assault-survivor-le-1848543054

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What’s on my mind: Everyone has a plan, until they get punched in the mouth:

News:

• MTG spoke at a white supremist conference, but claims she didn’t know where she was: https://newsone.com/4297890/marjorie-taylor-greene-gop-problem/
• Capitol rioter awaiting sentencing dies by suicide…good riddance: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/capitol-rioter-awaiting-sentencing-dies-suicide-coroner-says-rcna18270
• No justice for Breonna Taylor: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/02/us/breonna-taylor-hankison-trial.html
• A Progressive democrat’s response to President Biden’s State of the Union speech: https://www.npr.org/2022/03/02/1083868623/democrat-rep-rashida-tlaib-delivers-a-response-to-bidens-state-of-the-union

This shit is for us: What would a post racist world look like: https://academicworks.cuny.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2195&context=bb_pubs

Bible Study with Atheist Mike: How did Yeshua become Jesus: https://allthatsinteresting.com/yeshua-jesus-real-name

Closing: Congratulations to Ayesha Rascoe, new host of NPR’s Weekend Edition Sunday: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/25/business/media/npr-ayesha-rascoe.html

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What’s on my mind: A Black atheist prophecy: 

News:

• A jury finds Ahmaud Arbery's 3 killers guilty of federal hate crimes: https://www.npr.org/2022/02/22/1082225480/ahmaud-arbery-hate-crimes
• The Republicans are Racist, and If You Still Support them, So Are You: https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-is-a-racist-if-you-still-support-him-so-are-you
• Pastor arrested for raping kids, a double header: https://www.kiro7.com/news/local/former-youth-pastor-arrested-child-rape-charges/IG7EW6DLOJBVHKM5JUBPMTF3K4/ and, https://www.fox5vegas.com/news/crime/las-vegas-pastor-accused-of-child-sex-crimes-arrested-in-new-mexico/article_cd66ca8c-931b-11ec-8311-6fc604b87bb3.html
• The Russian invasion of Ukraine, a Black perspective: https://www.latimes.com/world/africa/la-fg-russia-africans-20141102-story.html

This shit is for us: Ani’t no half steppin: https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/1923-marcus-garvey-last-word-incarceration/ and, https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44694/if-we-must-die

Bible Study with Atheist Mike: Witches the third most use word for women in the bible: https://religionnews.com/2022/02/15/tennessee-preacher-greg-locke-says-demons-told-him-names-of-witches-in-his-church/ and, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witchcraft_and_divination_in_the_Hebrew_Bible

Closing: 50 Years Later, the Rothko Chapel Meets a New Musical Match: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/18/arts/music/tyshawn-sorey-rothko-chapel.html

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What’s on my mind: In plain sight, the quite part out loud: https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/04/republicans-america-first-caucus

News:

• Racist slurs, violent messages: How Arbery’s killers talked about Black people: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/racist-slurs-violent-messages-how-arbery-s-killers-talked-about-black-people/ar-AATWzb9?ocid=msedgntp
• Dear Democrats: Start treating Republicans like the violent extremists they are: https://thegrio.com/2022/02/16/dear-democrats-treat-republicans-like-violent-extremists/
• Idiot antivaxx truckers wreak havoc on the economy: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/12/world/americas/canada-truck-protests-police.html
• Well-Known Black Pastor Arrested in Scheme to Defraud Elderly Man Out of His Home: https://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/well-known-miami-gardens-pastor-arrested-in-scheme-to-defraud-elderly-man-out-of-home/2691556/
• Sha'Carri Richardson Questions Olympics After Russian Athlete Caught Doping: https://www.binnews.com/content/2022-02-14-shacarri-richardson-questions-olympics-after-russian-athlete-caught-doping/

This shit is for us: Pet Negros and other oddities:

Bible Study with Atheist Mike: The Holy Sacrament Revisited: https://www.npr.org/2022/02/15/1080829813/priest-resigns-baptisms

Closing: Black businessman inducted into Texas Business Hall of Fame: https://aframnews.com/houston-businessman-inducted-into-texas-business-hall-of-fame/

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What’s on my mind: This shit is not sustainable: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/04/us/politics/republicans-jan-6-cheney-censure.html and https://www.thenation.com/article/society/supreme-court-alabama-voting/

News:

• Kentucky pastor charged with sex crimes involving minor: https://www.whas11.com/article/news/kentucky/kentucky-pastor-thomas-wall-child-sex-crimes/417-646bed51-0a7e-48db-9a8a-5aa87d14c690
• Examples of white (and Asian) racism denial: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/andrew-yang-apologizes-saying-joe-rogan-isnt-racist-works-black-people-rcna15174 and https://www.nme.com/news/music/india-arie-shares-clips-of-joe-rogan-using-the-n-word-and-calling-black-people-apes-3154174
• COVID-19 Update, 5 more states to soon end indoor mask mandates: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/08/us/us-mask-mandates.html
• Panel finds hundreds of charges of abuse: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/former-ame-zion-bishop-charged-in-fraud-scheme-targeting-bay-area-congregations/ar-AAT8L8y
• Meet the Black Neuroscientist Who is on a Mission to Change the World: https://www.blacknews.com/news/shonte-jovan-taylor-black-neuroscientist-change-world/

This shit is for us: Lessons from the Haitian Revolution: https://www.britannica.com/topic/Haitian-Revolution and https://scholarworks.calstate.edu/downloads/pg15bh41h

Bible Study with Atheist Mike: The Bible’s view of women: https://ffrf.org/component/k2/item/23729-why-women-need-freedom-from-religion

Closing: A fresh face breaks barriers on Iraq’s state news: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/04/world/middleeast/iraq-tv-black-news-anchor.html

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