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Rational Black Thought Episode #73 Feb 26, 2022 - Ain’t No Half Steppin…Heatwave

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Send us Fan Mail 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-crimesThe 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-youPastor 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.htmlThe Russian invasion of Ukraine, a Black perspective: https://www.latimes.com/world/africa/la-fg-russia-africans-20141102-story.htmlThis 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 Power Concedes Nothing without a Demand...

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