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Episode 280, May 2, 2026 - “The same people who control the school system - Control the prison system”
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Welcome to Rational Black Thought. I am your host, Neo Griot.
This week’s episode is titled comes from the lyrics from the song “They’ Schools” by dead prez, the full lyrics I want to quote are:
Why haven't you learned anything?
Man that school shit is a joke
The same people who control the school system
Control the prison system,
And the whole social system
Ever since slavery, know what I'm sayin'?
That title comes from the spirit of conscious rap, where Black artists have often done what philosophers, preachers, journalists, and politicians frequently refuse to do: tell the…
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