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Rational Black Thought Episode #90 June 25, 2022 - It is time we Negroes learn that you can’t get something for nothing…Zora Neal Hurston artwork

Rational Black Thought Episode #90 June 25, 2022 - It is time we Negroes learn that you can’t get something for nothing…Zora Neal Hurston

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Send us Fan Mail What’s on my mind: The distortion of patriotism: News: Jan 6th committee’s public hearings:https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/21/politics/january-6-hearing-day-4-takeaways/index.html The police are educated by avowed racists:https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-police-extremism/ Indiana Man is the new moniker for stupidity, replacing Florida man:https://www.waaytv.com/news/us-capitol-rioter-who-carried-weapon-loaded-with-hollow-point-bullets-pleads-guilty/article_7c49972b-7a36-5d5e-985c-5af8fe9456a0.html This IS the Republican Party:https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/lauren-witzke-says-uvalde-shooting-was-a-federal-operation-to-prevent-hispanics-from-supporting-the-gop/ Police 'more churchlike than the church':https://anabaptistworld.org/caveys-arrest-contrasts-with-churchs-failures-former-colleague-says/ This shit is for us: A new Black renaissance:https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/africaatlse/2021/08/19/steve-biko-philosophy-of-black-consciousness-theology-south-africa-bio/ https://hoodcommunist.org/2019/11/07/consciencism-an-african-world-view-studies-in-quantum-philosophical-thought/ https://www.researchgate.net/publication/337058797_The_Reality_of_African_Epistemology Bible Study with Atheist Mike: King David, a man after god’s own heart: Closing: Black girls are champions in the competitive world of Irish dance: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/irish-dance-become-diverse-decades-rcna19312 Power Concedes Nothing without a Demand...

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