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Rational Black Thought Episode #111 November 19, 2022 -Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them — Assata Shakur artwork

Rational Black Thought Episode #111 November 19, 2022 -Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them — Assata Shakur

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Send us Fan Mail What’s on my mind: Can we change the world: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/08/how-anger-can-build-better-world/615625/ News: Update on the midterms:https://www.npr.org/2022/11/16/1133125177/republicans-control-house-of-representatives My thoughts about Manchester confirmed:https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/12/world/europe/uk-criminal-justice.html NFAC is dead:https://www.complex.com/life/grandmaster-jay-sentenced-prison-breonna-taylor-protest Another reason the Republicans did not have a “Red Wave:https://www.vice.com/en/article/v7vjx8/almost-twice-as-many-republicans-died-from-covid-before-the-midterms-than-democrats Black live do not matter to racists:https://www.thedailybeast.com/lamar-and-zy-aire-mitchell-died-in-flint-fire-and-their-dad-says-cops-took-his-blood This shit is for us: 12 Steps to recover from racism: https://www.saberesafricanos.net/phocadownloadpap/libros/Lets_Make_A_Slave_The_Making_Of_A_Slave.pdf Bible Study with Atheist Mike: There is no placebo effect and prayer doesn’t work either: https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/the-placebo-myth/ Closing: This is not compassion: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/tears-joy-tupac-shakurs-stepfather-freed-prison-35-years-rcna41216 Power Concedes Nothing without a Demand...

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