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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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What’s on my mind: It’s worse than I thought: https://orientalreview.org/2022/01/29/the-1994-rwandan-genocide-and-the-united-states-i/

News:

• Trump Really, Really Wanted the Government to Seize Voting Machines: https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-pushed-government-seize-voting-machines-1293232/
• Cops suspended over mishandling of the deaths of two Black women: https://www.blackenterprise.com/connecticut-cops-suspended-over-mishandling-of-deaths-of-two-black-women/
• COVID Update, Christian Dr. claims vaccines turn people into “transhumanist cyborgs”: https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/01/prominent-christian-doctor-claims-covid-vaccines-will-turn-people-transhumanist-cyborgs/
• Former AME Zion Bishop charged in fraud scheme: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/former-ame-zion-bishop-charged-in-fraud-scheme-targeting-bay-area-congregations/ar-AAT8L8y
• Judge J. Michelle Childs heads list of potential Black women Supreme Court nominees: https://aframnews.com/judge-j-michelle-childs-heads-list-of-potential-black-women-supreme-court-nominees/

This shit is for us: Black Generations: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-truisms-wellness/201602/baby-boomers-generation-z

Bible Study with Atheist Mike: Do Martyrs for Islam get to fuck 70 virgins: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2002/jan/12/books.guardianreview5

Closing: Black Woman to Make Astronaut History: https://www.blackenterprise.com/jessica-watkins-set-to-become-first-black-woman-to-have-an-extended-stay-in-outer-space/

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What’s on my mind: Motivated Blindness, an answer to the question, why are people so dumb: https://www.stevebizblog.com/the-truth-about-how-motivated-blindness-affects-business-decisions/#:~:text=Motivated%20blindness%20is%20a%20type%20of%20confirmation%20bias,blindness%20for%20a%20small%20business%20involves%20money-related%20issues., https://www.apa.org/monitor/2012/12/elc-pitfalls

News:

• Mitch McConnell says African Americans are almost like real Americans: https://www.thedailybeast.com/mitch-mcconnell-says-black-americans-vote-just-as-much-as-americans
• Is Ginni Thomas a Threat to democracy? https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/01/31/is-ginni-thomas-a-threat-to-the-supreme-court
• COVID19 Update, A woman dies after deliberately catching Covid: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-60050996
• Black pastor apologizes for rubbing spit on churchgoer’s face: https://thegrio.com/2022/01/19/pastor-mike-todd-apologizes-churchgoers-face-spit/
• Black Pastor and Wife Arrested for Holding 8 People Locked in Basement: https://www.theroot.com/georgia-pastor-and-wife-arrested-for-holding-8-people-l-1848410729

This shit is for us: No matter how hard you try you can’t stop us now: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/14/magazine/black-history-american-democracy.html

Bible Study with Atheist Mike: To dunk or not to dunk, that is the question: https://www.personalcreations.com/blog/seven-sacraments

Closing: An arbiter of beauty exists the stage: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/23/style/andre-leon-talley-legacy.html

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What’s on my mind: How to stop the Dem’s plan to lose the House and the Senate this year: https://nypost.com/2022/01/19/joe-biden-gets-f-grade-from-37-of-americans-poll-shows/, https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/meet-the-press/poll-numbers-are-pointing-midterm-shellacking-democrats-n1287624

News:

• The prayer timeline for Jan 6: https://religionnews.com/2022/01/06/jan-6-a-timeline-in-prayers/
• Most BLM protest were peaceful: https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/news-and-ideas/black-lives-matter-protesters-were-overwhelmingly-peaceful-our-research-finds
• COVID-19 Update – decades of discovery before miraculous cure: https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2022/01/16/world/science-health-world/miracle-covid-vaccine/
• Pedophile Priest act like mafia: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/10/24/paedophile-priests-acted-like-mafia-abusing-schoolboys-vatican/
• 74-year-old Black woman spent 27 years in prison for a murder she did not commit: https://getuperica.com/482952/elderly-black-woman-exonerated-after-spending-27-years-in-prison-for-nieces-murder/

This shit is for us: Message to White America, you don’t know Black people: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/14/books/review/you-dont-know-us-negroes-zora-neale-hurston.html

Bible Study with Atheist Mike: Prayer is the statistical equivalent of not doing a goddam thing: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/no-prayer-prescription/, https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/god-vs-doctor-1-2-say-prayer-saves-dying-flna1c9460561

Closing: Maria Ewing Dead: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/12/arts/music/maria-ewing-dead.html

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Sorry for the long episode this week, I had a lot to say. In the future, if I have too much content in a given week, I will cut out content and save it for a subsequent week.

If you have comments, that my podcast is too long, that my points are incoherent or wrong, please send a message to [email protected]

What’s on my mind: How to get shit done: https://gettingthingsdone.com/what-is-gtd/, https://www.wrike.com/blog/complete-guide-personal-kanban/

News:

• Cyber Ninjas going out of business: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/07/us/cyber-ninjas-arizona-vote-review.html
• Ted Cruz shows the entire world he is a spineless piece of shit: https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/07/politics/ted-cruz-jan-6-terrorist-attack-capitol/index.html
• Woman billionaire tries to fight racism in Brazil: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/07/world/americas/luiza-trajano-brazil-magalu-racism.html
• COVID-19 Update: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/#graph-cases-daily
• Pastor Facing Multiple Sexual Assault Charges: https://legalherald.com/big-rock-il-mark-rivera-a-former-acna-lay-pastor-at-christ-our-light-anglican-facing-multiple-felony-sexual-assault-charges/
• 23-year-old Black man arrested on warrant for a white man with bushy white beard: https://newsone.com/4275119/las-vegas-black-man-arrested-for-warrant-on-white-man-twice-his-age/

This shit is for us: Effective education in the Black community: https://asalh.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/final-woodson-mis-education-study-guide-2008.pdf

Bible Study with Atheist Mike: How do you “know” that god exist: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/finding-purpose/202008/how-do-we-know-what-is-real

Closing: In Memoriam: James Mtume: https://goodblacknews.org/2022/01/11/r-i-p-jazz-and-rb-artist-musician-and-producer-james-mtume-76/

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