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RBT Episode 219 February 15, 2025 - “The election of Blacks to high office, even to the highest office…will do relatively little to enhance the power of the Afrikan American Community…” – Amos Wilson artwork

RBT Episode 219 February 15, 2025 - “The election of Blacks to high office, even to the highest office…will do relatively little to enhance the power of the Afrikan American Community…” – Amos Wilson

Rational Black Thought
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Send us Fan Mail Become Strategic or Die: Blueprint for Black Power, an antifragile framework for success Release 4: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/211874.Blueprint_for_Black_Power Demystifying the Nonsense, they call the News: Fugue State of Mind: https://sfreporter.com/columns/authoritarian-moves-beg-questions-of-trump-voters/Elon Musk the Con’s Con: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/musk-cuts-based-more-political-ideology-than-real-cost-savings-so-far-2025-02-12/And They Followed the Bible: https://wpde.com/news/local/bond-set-for-4-private-school-employees-arrested-in-florence-on-child-abuse-charges-laurin-boyce-elmore-kirven-patrick-neglect-criminal-conspiracyBible Study with an Atheist: Inerrant Truth or Bullshit Myth: Closing: Black Educators, Black Knowledge, Our Future: https://www.theroot.com/hillmantok-the-new-tiktok-trend-that-has-thousands-of-1851760386 Power Concedes Nothing without a Demand...

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