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Rational Black Thought Episode #118 January 7, 2023 - Don't Shit in the Well you Drink from...African proverb artwork

Rational Black Thought Episode #118 January 7, 2023 - Don't Shit in the Well you Drink from...African proverb

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Send us Fan Mail What’s on my mind: How to be happy in hell: News: Kevin McCarthy’s lifelong dream crushed: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/after-two-days-failure-us-house-republicans-try-again-pick-leader-2023-01-05/ Fuck 12:https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/04/nyregion/nypd-officer-suspended.html Fuck 12 again:https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/news/watch-cops-cuffed-black-wsj-reporter-doing-interviews-at-bank-threatened-this-could-get-bad-for-you-if-you-don-t-comply/ar-AA160IRN?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=375f5b29bc92458ea98a555c979accd3 Is apartheid over:https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/28/world/africa/south-africa-black-teenagers-pool.html Conservative leader says he is a time traveler:https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/stop-the-steal-activist-ali-alexander-says-hes-a-time-traveler-the-father-of-dragons-and-a-lot-like-jesus/ This shit is for us: Don’t shit in the well you drink from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaFmUvElTeU Bible Study with Atheist Mike: 1984 as a religious metaphor: https://digitalrepository.trincoll.edu/fypapers?utm_source=digitalrepository.trincoll.edu%2Ffypapers%2F72&utm_medium=PDF&utm_campaign=PDFCoverPages Closing: Retribution vs. Rehabilitation: https://blacknews.com/news/100-inmates-wisconsin-prison-graduate-second-chance-program-milwaukee-technical-college/ Power Concedes Nothing without a Demand...

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