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Rational Black Thought Episode #68 Jan 22, 2022 - You don’t know the Negro…Zora Neale Hurston artwork

Rational Black Thought Episode #68 Jan 22, 2022 - You don’t know the Negro…Zora Neale Hurston

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Send us Fan Mail 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-findsCOVID-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 Power Concedes Nothing without a Demand...

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