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Rational Black Thought
A discussion of all topics as seen through the eyes of a Black Atheist, Skeptic, Humanist, Existentialist
Episodes
Rational Black ThoughtEpisode #245 – August 30, 2025 –”We need to organize our consciousness and our personalities and our culture and see them as instruments of power…” Dr. Amos Wilson
Send us Fan Mail Intro: Quote of the Week: Dr. Amos Wilson Strategies for Black Power: Designing the Afrocentric Individual Operating System: Unmasking the…
Rational Black ThoughtEpisode #244 – August 23, 2025 – It’s bigger than black and white, It's a problem with the whole way of life...” Lil Baby
Send us Fan Mail Intro: Quote of the Week: Angela Davis Strategies for Black Power: Designing Our Own Operating System: Unmasking the News: Democracy Watch…
Rational Black ThoughtEpisode #243 – August 16, 2025 – “American hypocrisy, oh, let me count the ways ...” J. Cole
Send us Fan Mail Intro: Feedback: Quote of the Week: Yaa Asantewaa Strategies for Black Power: The Feminine Side of Black Power: Unmasking the News: Democracy…
Rational Black ThoughtEpisode #242 – August 9, 2025 – “N*****s Are Scared of Revolution” Last Poets
Send us Fan Mail Intro: Quote of the Week: Frantz Fanon Strategies for Black Power: The Rebel’s Clinic: Strategic Prescription for Black Power: Unmasking the…
Rational Black ThoughtEpisode #241 – August 2, 2025 – “Racisim's still alive, they just be concealin' it”
Send us Fan Mail Intro: Quote of the Week: Frantz Fanon Strategies for Black Power: Phenomenal Blackness: Unmasking the News: Democracy Watch: Texas…
Rational Black ThoughtEpisode #240 – July 26, 2025 – “How many leaders you said you needed then left 'em for dead?” Kendrick Lamar Mortal Man
Send us Fan Mail Intro: Feedback: Quote of the Week: Audre Lorde Strategies for Black Power: Lessons from Black Philosophy: Unmasking the News: Democracy…
Rational Black ThoughtEpisode #239 – July 19, 2025 -“F**k silence, speak up b**ch, this s**t ill…f**k cardboard signs, we in the field” YG
Send us Fan Mail Intro: Feedback: Quote of the Week: Malcolm X Strategies for Black Power: Lessons from Black Organized Crime: Unmasking the News: Democracy…
Rational Black ThoughtEpisode #238 – July 12, 2025 - Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now
Send us Fan Mail Intro: Feedback: Quote of the Week: Audre Lorde Strategies for Black Power: America Under Siege: Unmasking the News: Update on Democracy…
Rational Black ThoughtEpisode #237 – July 5, 2025 - Humans will never be able to inhabit a shared reality without three integral things: facts, truth, and trust
Send us Fan Mail Intro: Feedback: Quote of the Week: Sojourner Truth Strategies for Black Power: Trump, 2073, and the Collapse of Shared Reality Unmasking the…
Rational Black ThoughtEpisode #236 – June 28, 2025 - Faith, Fraud, and Financial Firepower: Black Liberation by Any Means Necessary
Send us Fan Mail Intro: Feedback: Quote of the Week: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr Strategies for Black Power: Black Liberation Through Strategic Economic…
Rational Black ThoughtEpisode #235 – June 21, 2025 – Digital Dominion vs Divine Delusion
Send us Fan Mail Intro: Feedback: Quote of the Week: Marcus Garvey Strategies for Black Power: The Digital Dominion: Unmasking the News: Update on Democracy…
Rational Black ThoughtEpisode #234 – June 14, 2025 – From Resistance to Revolution
Send us Fan Mail Intro: Feedback: Quote of the Week: Malcolm X Strategies for Black Power: From Resistance to Revolution: Unmasking the News: ICE Out of L.A. &…
Rational Black ThoughtEpisode #233 – June 7, 2025 - From Survival to Supremacy: The Blueprint for Black Power
Send us Fan Mail Intro: Feedback: Quote of the Week: Malcolm X Strategies for Black Power: Consistent Themes: Unmasking the News: Trump is Dumb as Fuck…
Rational Black ThoughtEpisode #232 – May 29, 2025 - "If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else." – Booker T. Washington
Send us Fan Mail Feedback: Quote of the Week: Booker T. Washington Strategies for Black Power: What we can Learn from Black Philosophy: Unmasking the News…
Rational Black ThoughtEpisode #231 – May 22, 2025 – "America loves the myth of a meritocracy more than anything else…" — Mikki Kendall
Send us Fan Mail Quote of the Week: Mikki Kendall Become Strategic or Die: Learn from Everything Part II: Demystifying the Nonsense, they call the News: Racist…
Rational Black ThoughtRBT Episode 230 May 15, 2025 - "The most marvelous, unbelievable thing about Black people in America is that they exist." — Ibram X. Kendi
Send us Fan Mail Become Strategic or Die: Learn from Everything Part I: Demystifying the Nonsense, they call the News: The Cycle, Black Progress, White…
Rational Black ThoughtRBT Episode 229 May 08, 2025 - “There can be no black-white unity until there is first some black unity...” – Malcolm X
Send us Fan Mail Become Strategic or Die: We Have Always Been at War Part II: Demystifying the Nonsense, they call the News: The Willfully Ignorant…
Rational Black ThoughtRBT Episode 228 May 03, 2025 - “In a racist society, it is not enough to be non-racist. We must be anti-racist.” – Angela Davis
Send us Fan Mail Intro: Become Strategic or Die: We Have Always Been at War: Demystifying the Nonsense, they call the News: To Democrats: Don’t start jerking…
Rational Black ThoughtRBT Episode 227 April 19, 2025 - “Burn and annihilate everything in order that those who have come to reduce us to slavery may have before their eyes the image of the hell which they deserve.” – Jean-Jacques Dessalines
Send us Fan Mail Sorry, this is a few days late: Become Strategic or Die: Give Them the Hell They Deserve: Demystifying the Nonsense, they call the News: An…
Rational Black ThoughtRBT Episode 226 April 12, 2025 - “People should either be caressed or crushed.” – Niccolo Machiavelli
Send us Fan Mail Become Strategic or Die: Time to Go Machiavellian on they Ass: Demystifying the Nonsense, they call the News: The Destruction of America…
Rational Black ThoughtRBT Episode 225 April 5, 2025 - “The most powerful people don’t play the game—they control it” – Chase Huges
Send us Fan Mail Become Strategic or Die: Authoring the Story of Life: Demystifying the Nonsense, they call the News: White House Follies: How Trump's Blunders…
Rational Black ThoughtRBT Episode 224 March 22, 2025 - “The essential element of…mental bondage is self-doubt…” – Kwame Agyei
Send us Fan Mail Become Strategic or Die: The Reality of War: Demystifying the Nonsense, they call the News: MAGA Maggots, Fucking Losers: Chuck’s Folly…
Rational Black ThoughtRBT Episode 223 March 15, 2025 - “ Financial freedom my only hope, Fuck livin' rich and dyin' broke” Jay Z
Send us Fan Mail Become Strategic or Die: Political Power in 2026: Demystifying the Nonsense, they call the News: The Circus: Buying America: Irredeemably…
Rational Black ThoughtRBT Episode 222 March 08 - Black is strugglin' to find your history or trace the shit. You don't know the truth about your race 'cause they erasin' it.” Dave (the song Black)
Send us Fan Mail Become Strategic or Die: Everything is Strategy: Demystifying the Nonsense, they call the News: The Cheapening: Not Held to Account: Lies…
Rational Black ThoughtRBT Episode 221 March 01, 2025 - When you are filled with self-hate your mind is reversed. Meaning you will love the things that destroy you, and you will hate the things that advance your growth.” ― Amos N. Wilson
Send us Fan Mail Become Strategic or Die: Blueprint for Black Power, an antifragile framework for success Final Release: Demystifying the Nonsense, they call…
Rational Black ThoughtRBT Episode 220 February 22, 2025 - “…the dark ghetto’s invisible walls have been erected by the white society, by those who have power, both to confine those that have no power and to perpetuate their powerlessness” – Kenneth B. Clark
Send us Fan Mail Become Strategic or Die: Blueprint for Black Power, an antifragile framework for success Release 5: Demystifying the Nonsense, they call the…
Rational Black ThoughtRBT 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
Send us Fan Mail Become Strategic or Die: Blueprint for Black Power, an antifragile framework for success Release 4…
Rational Black ThoughtRBT Episode 218 February 8, 2025 - The ruling White male corporate elite utilizes a variety of processes to maintain the sociopolitical-socioeconomic system from which it benefits munificently…” – Amos Wilson
Send us Fan Mail Become Strategic or Die: Blueprint for Black Power, an antifragile framework for success Release 3…
Rational Black ThoughtRBT Episode 217 February 1, 2025 Corrected Audio - “The Black Church has not only underdeveloped the power potential of the Black Community, but has actually squandered its potential…” – Amos Wilson
Send us Fan Mail Strategy Moment: Blueprint for Black Power, an antifragile framework for success Release 2…
Rational Black ThoughtRBT Episode 216 January 25, 2025 - “As I often tell people, the most practical thing you can have, is a good theory, a good concept to guide your behavior” – Amos Wilson
Send us Fan Mail Strategy Moment: Blueprint for Black Power, an antifragile framework for success…
Rational Black ThoughtRBT Episode Special 215 January 18, 2025 - The Return
Send us Fan Mail Today's episode is an explanation of why I haven't been recording, why I came back and what to expect in the future. I am going to be…
Rational Black ThoughtRBT Episode Special 214 November 9, 2024 - “A functioning… democracy requires…an educated, morally grounded leadership.” - Chinua Achebe
Send us Fan Mail What’s on my Mind: The Fall of Democracy “A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy, educated, participatory followership, and an…
Rational Black ThoughtRBT Episode Special 2024 Election Episode November 6, 2024 - “We are all Fucked” – Neo Grio
Send us Fan Mail America elected a fascist, wannabe dictator to the highest office in the land and gave control of the House and Senate to his minions. We are…
Rational Black ThoughtRBT Episode #213 November 2, 2024 - “… A struggle without casualties is no struggle.” – Steve Biko
Send us Fan Mail What’s on my Mind: A Message of Hate: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/27/trump-madison-square-garden-rally News: Wrong Man for…
Rational Black ThoughtRBT Episode #212 October 26, 2024 - “We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated.” - Maya Angelou
Send us Fan Mail What’s on my Mind: Predictive Reasoning: https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2024-election-forecast/ News: Trump is Fascist? Duh…
Rational Black ThoughtRBT Episode #211 October 19, 2024 - “People like to say that the conflict is between good and evil. The real conflict is between truth and lies.” — Don Miguel Ruiz
Send us Fan Mail What’s on my Mind: Collective Delusion: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/aug/03/trump-maga-suporters-explain-republican News…
Rational Black ThoughtRBT Episode #210 October 12, 2024 - Ours is not the struggle of one day, one week, or one year… Ours is the struggle of a lifetime…” — John Lewis
Send us Fan Mail What’s on my Mind: Perpetually Undecided: https://theweek.com/politics/undecided-voters-presidential-election-polarization News: Filthy…
Rational Black ThoughtRBT Episode #209 October 5, 2024 - “Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing themselves.” ― Leo Tolstoy
Send us Fan Mail What’s on my Mind: The Cause of Irrational Thinking: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6396700/ News: Inconsequential…
Rational Black ThoughtRBT Episode #208 September 28, 2024 - "Truth does not change, only our awareness of it." — Malcolm X
Send us Fan Mail What’s on my Mind: The GOP has fallen, and it can’t get up: https://www.msnbc.com/top-stories/latest/donald-trump-jd-vance-republican-rage-rhet…
Rational Black ThoughtRBT Episode #207 September 21, 2024 - "We are the change that we seek.” —Barack Obama
Send us Fan Mail What’s on my Mind: Dangerous Synergy: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/aug/30/elon-musk-wealth-power News: Still the…
Rational Black ThoughtRBT Episode #206 September 14, 2024 - "If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters." - Colin Powell
Send us Fan Mail What’s on my Mind: Is Trump a Lair or a Buffoon?: https://thehill.com/opinion/columnists/juan-williams/4831657-trump-lies-dangerous-political-s…
Rational Black ThoughtRBT Episode #205 September 7, 2024 - “I am trying to become the strongest person I can become to live the life I have been given…” — Audre Lorde
Send us Fan Mail What’s on my Mind: Republican FUBAR: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/mind-in-the-machine/201812/complete-psychological-analysis-trumps-…
Rational Black ThoughtRBT Episode #204 August 31, 2024 - "A loaded brain is more powerful than a loaded gun." — Ernest William Chambers
Send us Fan Mail What’s on my Mind: Fear of a Black Planet: News: Shit-stained Glasses…
Rational Black ThoughtRBT Episode #203 August 24, 2024 - "All too often, when we see injustices, both great and small…we do nothing. We remain silent... When we say nothing, when we do nothing, we are consenting to these trespasses against us." — Roxane Gay, Bad Feminist
Send us Fan Mail What’s on my Mind: The Magic of Getting Off your Ass and Doing Something: News: Oxymoron…
Rational Black ThoughtRBT Episode #202 August 17, 2024 - “Unless we…defeat the enemies in our own country, poverty and racism, we are exposed in the eyes of the world as hypocrites…” —Shirley Chisholm
Send us Fan Mail What’s on my Mind: Update from the Center of Chaos: https://www.cfr.org/blog/election-2024-where-presidential-race-stands-three-months-election…
Rational Black ThoughtRational Black Thought Episode 201 – August 10, 2024 – “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” ― Maya Angelou
Send us Fan Mail What’s on my Mind: What’s Your Story?: https://www.spiritofstory.com/blog/interview-john-truby News: Rambling nonsense…
Rational Black ThoughtRational Black Thought Episode 200 – August 3, 2024 – “whether you grab hold of an inflection point and leverage it for all it’s worth or just let it carry you along – is as important as the event itself.”— Eric C. Sinoway
Send us Fan Mail What’s on my Mind: Convergence of Inflection Points: https://www.taosnews.com/opinion/letters/a-critical-inflection-point-for-democracy/article…
Rational Black ThoughtRational Black Thought Episode 199 – July 27, 2024 – “We should… protest openly everything... that smacks of discrimination or slander."- Mary McLeod Bethune
Send us Fan Mail What’s on my Mind: What Now: News: How Biden Outwitted the Dem Elites Why Does this Keep Happening…
Rational Black ThoughtRational Black Thought Episode 198 – July 20, 2024 – “Choice is an illusion created between those with power and those without” The Matrix Reloaded
Send us Fan Mail What’s on my Mind: Election Mysteries Decoded: The Hidden Truths of 2024…
Rational Black ThoughtRational Black Thought Episode #197 July 13, 2024 - “If you don't know where you want to go, then it doesn't matter which path you take.” ― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
Send us Fan Mail What’s on my Mind: Hope for the Best but Plan for the Worst: News: Can Biden win?…
Rational Black ThoughtRational Black Thought Episode 196 – July 6, 2024 – “…over here We measure success by how many people successful next to you…” Jay Z
Send us Fan Mail What’s on my Mind: The Game of Politics and How to Play: https://news.mit.edu/2018/game-theory-politics-alexander-wolitzky-1204 News: No one…
Rational Black ThoughtRational Black Thought Episode #195 June 29, 2024 - "They smilin' in your face. All the time, they want to take your place, The back stabbers" – O’ Jays
Send us Fan Mail What’s on my Mind: What They Want: News: Deeper meaning: https://apnews.com/article/georgia-trooper-shooting-black-man-julian-lewis-e982e4db533…
Rational Black ThoughtRational Black Thought Episode #194 June 22, 2024 - “A mistake repeated more than once is a decision.” - Paulo Coelho
Send us Fan Mail What’s on my Mind: They Not Like Us: https://newlinesmag.com/argument/the-mass-psychology-of-trumpism/…
Rational Black ThoughtRational Black Thought Episode #193 June 15, 2024 - “If I were my own role-playing game character, I would never just stay in town, be idle and do nothing” – Yu-kai Chou
Send us Fan Mail What’s on my Mind: Play Your Own Game: News: Words can harm you…
Rational Black ThoughtRational Black Thought Episode #192 June 8, 2024 - “It is easier to defend what we call reality than to question it.” – Marcia Reynolds
Send us Fan Mail What’s on my Mind: The Neuroscience of not Being a Dumbass: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41386-021-01132-0 News: I Guess Two Wrongs Do…
Rational Black ThoughtRational Black Thought Episode #191 August 1, 2024 - “Choose...virtue over vulgarity...” — Ken Burns
Send us Fan Mail What’s on my Mind: Virtue over Vulgarity: https://alumni.brandeis.edu/news/2024/commencement/transcripts/ken-burns-remarks.html News: Guilty…
Rational Black ThoughtRational Black Thought Episode #190 May 25, 2024 - “They are bad with the conviction that they are good.” — Heather O'Neill
Send us Fan Mail What’s on my Mind: The most pressing problem in America: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3922050/ News: Heil Hitler…Trump…
Rational Black ThoughtRational Black Thought Episode #189 May 18, 2024 - “Please don't die over the neighborhood…That your mama renting” Jay-Z
Send us Fan Mail What’s on my Mind: Poisoning of the Mind: https://huridocs.org/2023/12/the-harmful-effects-of-disinformation-and-how-to-combat-them/ News…
Rational Black ThoughtRational Black Thought Episode #188 May 4, 2024 - “We can't operate with one party and a cult." - Norm Ornstein
Send us Fan Mail What’s on my Mind: One Party, One Cult: https://twitter.com/NormOrnstein/status/1786864512718475633…
Rational Black ThoughtRational Black Thought Episode #187 May 4, 2024 - “As we receive, we give; as we give, we receive.” – Laurie E. Smith
Send us Fan Mail What’s on my Mind: Going with the Flow: https://positivepsychology.com/mihaly-csikszentmihalyi-father-of-flow/#:~:text=In%20Csikszentmihalyi%27…