Radio WTAF – Black History Month Edition

February 25, 2026

Apparently, Donald Jeffrey Epstein Trump survived the longest, most dishonest, most divisive, disgusting and racist State of The Union in history. We’ll have to wait and see if the country manages to survive his continuing presence or not. Only time will tell. I'm sure he is very proud of himself, which places him firmly in a very small minority of Americans. He did nothing to help pull his still-sinking and royally-stinking poll numbers out of the metaphorical Mariana Trench. Trump is truly the POTUS. I did not watch Trump's disingenuous diatribe. I did however see enough snippets to cause a raging headache and some mild internal bleeding.

Meanwhile, Trump’s White Power Crusade is hard at work scrubbing all mentions of slavery, all mentions of contributions by Black Americans, from government websites, from national parks and monuments. They want to erase anything that might cause anyone to think there should be any sense of guilt or shame related to our shameful, guilt-ridden history, particularly as it relates to the over-arching racism at the heart of this nation since before its inception.

Despite the current regime’s ugly, malignant and metastatic racism and blatant and unrelenting attempts to whitewash this nation’s history and whiten this country as it now stands, we here at Paying Attention™ remain steadfast in our support for reality, for all people oppressed by those undeservedly in power, and Black History Month in particular during this shortest of months.

Supreme Court Chief Justice and longtime racist John Roberts, in gutting the Voting Rights Act several years ago, proclaimed that racism in America was dead. Well guess what-the-fuck, if it was dead back then (SPOILER ALERT: it most definitely was not) it is now a fucking zombie. Eating brains and dismembering democracy and civil society. How else can you explain Trump and his entire cabinet of brain-damaged dipshits. Hell, one of them even admitted to having his brain eaten by a worm…or was it a racist fucking zombie? Either way, all those brains in the West Wing have been gnawed, munched and chomped beyond any ability to function worth a shit.

But, I digress…

Can you imagine if everything we had came only from white people? I happen to be a white people and I can’t imagine having only music by white people. Don’t get me wrong, some of my best friends are white, but much, if not most of my favorite music is either by or heavily influenced by Black artists.

I. Mangrey perusing the playlist

Enjoy some scratching of the surface…

Oscar Brown, Jr. – Forty Acres And A Mule

Gil Scott-Heron – Whitey On the Moon

Rahsaan Roland Kirk – Blacknuss

Living Colour – Open Letter To A Landlord

Rage Against The Machine – Killing In the Name

Hope you're having a good Black History Month.

Send us your requests and dedications and we’ll get ‘em on the air.