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Episode 294, June 8, 2026 - "Used to call us monkeys and slaves and we overcame…”—Dame D.O.L.L.A.
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Welcome to Rational Black Thought, a podcast where we discuss news, politics, religion, and culture from a Black, progressive, secular humanist perspective.
This week's episode is titled after a lyric by Dame D.O.L.L.A.:
Used to call us monkeys and slaves and we overcame. Still, our work is just beginnin'. Protests look like parades.
That bar carries three truths in two lines.
First: we overcame. Slavery. Jim Crow. Redlining. Mass incarceration. Voter suppression. A country that called us property and then called us criminals. And we are still here…
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