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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 ThoughtRational Black Thought Episode #186 April 27, 2024 - “There can be no perfect democracy curtailed by color, race, or poverty. But with all we accomplish all, even Peace.” - W. E. B. Du Bois
Send us Fan Mail What’s on my Mind: Uninformed Citizenry: https://aeon.co/ideas/the-right-to-vote-should-be-restricted-to-those-with-knowledge…
Rational Black ThoughtRational Black Thought Episode #185 April 20, 2024 - “The way to right wrongs is to shine the light of truth on them.” — Ida B. Wells
Send us Fan Mail What’s on my Mind: Living Outside the Box: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/chaotic-cognition/202006/the-truth-about-the-box-in-outside-…
Rational Black ThoughtRational Black Thought Episode #184 April 13, 2024 - "We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated."- Maya Angelou
Send us Fan Mail What’s on my Mind: How and Why We Lose: https://www.270towin.com/ News: Theirs is not to reason why, theirs is but to do and die…
Rational Black ThoughtRational Black Thought Episode #183 April 06, 2024 - “Who you are speaks so loudly I can't hear what you're saying.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
Send us Fan Mail What’s on my Mind: By their fruits…: https://books.google.com/books/about/Be_You.html?id=my1GEAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=kp_read_button…
Rational Black ThoughtRational Black Thought Episode #182 March 30, 2024 - ““Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” MLK Jr.
Send us Fan Mail What’s on my Mind: Existence Beyond Time: https://www.space.com/time-how-it-works News: The Last Congress…
Rational Black ThoughtRational Black Thought Episode #181 March 23, 2024 - “Slavery was not merely an unfortunate thing that happened to black people. It was an American innovation…” ― Isabel Wilkerson
Send us Fan Mail What’s on my Mind: The weaponization of colorblindness: News: Like Lemmings to the Sea…
Rational Black ThoughtRational Black Thought Episode #180 March 16, 2024 -“Humanism is a philosophy that centers on the needs, interests, and abilities of human beings… — Anne Klaeysen
Send us Fan Mail What’s on my Mind: Zombies vs. Humans: https://secularhumanism.org/what-is-secular-humanism/…
Rational Black ThoughtRational Black Thought Episode #179 March 9, 2024 - “For this is your home, my friend, do not be driven from it…” James Baldwin
Send us Fan Mail What’s on my Mind: Master Manipulator: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/02/snl-donald-trump-republican-bootlickers/ News: They all…
Rational Black ThoughtRational Black Thought Episode #178 March 02, 2024 - “I am America. I am the part you won’t recognize. But get used to me.” —Muhammad Ali
Send us Fan Mail What’s on my Mind: Project Autocracy: https://globalextremism.org/project-2025-the-far-right-playbook-for-american-authoritarianism/?gad_source…
Rational Black ThoughtRational Black Thought Episode #177 February 24, 2024 - “People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction…” ― James Baldwin
Send us Fan Mail What’s on my Mind: America without democracy: https://www.dw.com/en/as-autocrats-ascend-gloomy-data-on-democracies-decline/a-62674756…
Rational Black ThoughtRational Black Thought Episode #176 February 17, 2024 - "Ours is the struggle of a lifetime, or maybe even many lifetimes, and each one of us in every generation must do our part.” - John Lewis
Send us Fan Mail What’s on my Mind: The end of evolution: News: It’s the culture stupid: https://thehill.com/opinion/4445662-for-maga-its-the-culture-stupid/…
Rational Black ThoughtRational Black Thought Episode #175 February 10, 2024 - Being black is not a matter of pigmentation - being black is a reflection of a mental attitude." Steve Biko
Send us Fan Mail What’s on my Mind: Identify your Life Center: https://blog.hubspot.com/sales/habits-of-highly-effective-people-summary News: What kind of…
Rational Black ThoughtRational Black Thought Episode #174 February 03, 2024 - “Your life is already artful- waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.” — Toni Morrison
Send us Fan Mail Philosophy: Philosophy is Life - Esthetics: http://www.importanceofphilosophy.com/FiveBranchesMain.html News: All I do is win, win, win no…
Rational Black ThoughtRational Black Thought Episode #173 January 27, 2024 - – “I’ve had enough of someone else’s propaganda… I’m for truth, no matter who tells it…” ― Malcolm X
Send us Fan Mail Philosophy: Philosophy is Life - Politics: http://www.importanceofphilosophy.com/FiveBranchesMain.html News: Normal Abnormality…
Rational Black ThoughtRational Black Thought Episode #172 January 20, 2024 - “The colonialists care nothing for Africa for her own sake.” Patrice Lumumba
Send us Fan Mail Philosophy: Philosophy is Life - Ethics: http://www.importanceofphilosophy.com/FiveBranchesMain.html News: We just hit rock bottom…
Rational Black ThoughtRational Black Thought Episode #171 January 13, 2024 - “The storytelling mind is allergic to uncertainty, randomness, and coincidence…” — Jonathan Gottschall
Send us Fan Mail Philosophy: Philosophy is Life - Epistemology: http://www.importanceofphilosophy.com/FiveBranchesMain.html News: The stupid, the ignorant and…
Rational Black ThoughtRational Black Thought Episode #170 January 06, 2024 - “Reason begins where speculation ends. Facts begin where assumptions end. Truth begins where ignorance ends. Wisdom begins where knowledge ends" - Matshona Dhliwayo
Send us Fan Mail Philosophy: Philosophy is Life - Metaphysics: http://www.importanceofphilosophy.com/FiveBranchesMain.html News: Cluster Fu*k…
Rational Black ThoughtRational Black Thought Episode #169 December 30, 2023 - ““The only protection against injustice…is power—physical, financial and scientific” Marcus Garvey
Send us Fan Mail Philosophy: Philosophy is Life - Overview: http://www.importanceofphilosophy.com/FiveBranchesMain.html News: The Future Ain’t What It Used To…
Rational Black ThoughtRational Black Thought Episode #168 December 23, 2023 - “Everyone wants a strong [Black] woman until she actually stands up, flexes her muscles, projects her voice…” ― Ari Eastman
Send us Fan Mail Philosophy: The immense cost of oppressing the Black Woman: https://www.chicagotribune.com/featured/sns-ws-black-women-changed-american-history…
Rational Black ThoughtRational Black Thought Episode #167 December 16, 2023 - “A lot of people use this analogy that Black Lives Matter is a movement. It’s not a movement. When you’re black, it’s not a movement. It’s a lifestyle.” — LeBron James
Send us Fan Mail Philosophy: How Black people in America can Survive and/or Thrive: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1742715020976200 News: Hypocrisy…
Rational Black ThoughtRational Black Thought Episode #166 December 9, 2023 - ““If people were given the choice between democracy and whiteness, how many would choose whiteness?” ― Taylor Branch
Send us Fan Mail Philosophy: The reality of war: News: The, mostly, untold story…
Rational Black ThoughtRational Black Thought Episode #165 December 2, 2023 - “Negative media reinforcements… affect how young blacks view themselves.” ― Tom Burrell
Send us Fan Mail Philosophy: Prompt Engineering the Mind: https://clivethompson.medium.com/the-psychological-weirdness-of-prompt-engineering-3846755df50c…
Rational Black ThoughtRational Black Thought Episode #164 November 25, 2023 - "Perseverance is in our DNA"...Elle McKinney
Send us Fan Mail Philosophy: The global doom loop: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/do-you-struggle-with-the-doom-loop_b_4247729 Closing: They call this justice…
Rational Black ThoughtRational Black Thought Episode #163 November 18, 2023 - "You can either be right or you can be in a relationship"
Send us Fan Mail Philosophy: The Art and Science of Compromise: https://www.verywellmind.com/compromise-in-relationships-7559559 News: True Colors: To cult or…
Rational Black ThoughtRational Black Thought Episode #162 November 11, 2023 - "so life is just a game, and there is many ways to play, and all you do is choose" – Stanley Clarke
Send us Fan Mail Philosophy: The Game of Life: http://www.wernererhard.com/living_cont.html News: We are in a death spiral: This shit never ends…
Rational Black ThoughtRational Black Thought Episode #161 November 04, 2023 - "You never change things by fighting the existing reality" – R. Buckminster Fuller
Send us Fan Mail Feedback: What’s on my mind: Designed Reality: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/liking-the-child-you-love/202310/the-most-overlooked-str…
Rational Black ThoughtRational Black Thought Episode #160 October 28, 2023 - "He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life." - Muhammad Ali
Send us Fan Mail What’s on my mind: The psychology of Achievement: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/liking-the-child-you-love/202310/the-most-overlooked-…
Rational Black ThoughtRational Black Thought Episode #159 October 21, 2023 - “Love is hate, War is peace, No is yes, And we're all free.” – Tracy Chapman
Send us Fan Mail What’s on my mind: The illogical rules of war: https://www.un.org/en/genocideprevention/war-crimes.shtml…
Rational Black ThoughtRational Black Thought Episode #158 October 14, 2023 - “The oppressor has always indoctrinated the weak with his interpretation of the crimes of the strong.” - Carter G Woodson
Send us Fan Mail What’s on my mind: Constructed history: https://culturahistorica.org/what-is-historiography/ News: The Israeli Hamas War: The Chaos Caucus…
Rational Black ThoughtRational Black Thought Episode #157 October 7, 2023 - "Slave masters thought they were making a difference in black people’s lives too…Same shit, different century” … Angie Thomas
Send us Fan Mail What’s on my mind: Let’s settle this shit: https://popcenter.asu.edu/content/step-3-know-what-effective-and-not-policing News: Bye-bye Kevin…
Rational Black ThoughtRational Black Thought Episode #156 September 30, 2023 - "As a Black man I am not going to allow myself to be programmed to not love myself” …Sean Combs
Send us Fan Mail What’s on my mind: The human monoprint: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/philosophy-dispatches/201205/what-does-it-mean-be-human News…
Rational Black ThoughtRational Black Thought Episode #155 September 23, 2023 - – If the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought…Dante
Send us Fan Mail What’s on my mind: We are already in hell: https://polygyan.medium.com/dantes-9-circles-of-hell-inferno-c1ecd922539a News: · This is…
Rational Black ThoughtRational Black Thought Episode #154 September 16, 2023 - Our problem is the disintegration of a sense of peoplehood…Asa Hilliard
Send us Fan Mail What’s on my mind: The disintegration of personhood: https://muse.jhu.edu/article/720332/pdf News: What have we become…
Rational Black ThoughtRational Black Thought Episode #153 September 9, 2023 - We Are Not Born Revolutionary. Revolutionaries are forged through constant struggle"…James Forman
Send us Fan Mail What’s on my mind: The psychology of revolt: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2352250X2030021X News: Pence tries to grow…
Rational Black ThoughtRational Black Thought Episode #152 September 2, 2023 - “…our beautiful youth...”
Send us Fan Mail Intro: “We can no longer allow them to under-educate, mis-educate, and control the minds of our beautiful youth, turning them into “Negro…
Rational Black ThoughtRational Black Thought Episode #151 August 26, 2023 - “… I'm going to try to find out the new ideas before the others do.” Ella Fitzgerald
Send us Fan Mail What’s on my mind: Risk without fear: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/thought-experiment/…
Rational Black ThoughtRational Black Thought Episode #150 - August 19, 2023 - We the people that are darker than blue…Curtis Mayfield
Send us Fan Mail What’s on my mind: The reality of human behavior: https://www.verywellmind.com/reality-therapy-definition-types-techniques-and-efficacy-5191995…
Rational Black ThoughtRational Black Thought Episode #149 August 12, 2023 - Fly like an Eagle… Steve Miller Band
Send us Fan Mail What’s on my mind: The figure and ground of systemic oppression…
Rational Black ThoughtRational Black Thought Episode #148 August 5, 2023 - You may write me down in history, With your bitter, twisted lies, You may trod me in the very dirt, But still, like dust, I’ll rise. Maya Angelo
Send us Fan Mail What’s on my mind: The futility of racism: https://aninjusticemag.com/how-does-racism-hurt-white-people-8ffe67843458 News: Felonious Record…
Rational Black ThoughtRational Black Thought Episode #147 July 29, 2023 - I think with [AI] we’ll augment our intelligence.”
Send us Fan Mail What’s on my mind: Augmented Thinking with ChatGPT: https://www.mlq.ai/prompt-engineering-advanced-techniques/ https://www.promptingguide.ai/…
Rational Black ThoughtRational Black Thought Episode #146 July 22, 2023 - Occupy all Spaces…Kevin Richardson
Send us Fan Mail What’s on my mind: The Loom of Life: News: Criminal in chief: https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4108875-trump-target-letter-hints-at…
Rational Black ThoughtRational Black Thought Episode #145 July 15, 2023 - Truth is powerful, and it prevails." —Sojourner Truth
Send us Fan Mail What’s on my mind: Seeing the world through shit-stained glasses…
Rational Black ThoughtRational Black Thought Episode #144 Jully 8, 2023 - To Kill a Mockingbird
Send us Fan Mail What’s on my mind: The death of innocence: https://cc.bingj.com/cache.aspx?q=the+new+yorker+before+the+law&d=4890112594808149&mkt=en-US&setlang…
Rational Black ThoughtRational Black Thought Episode #143 July 1, 2023 - Beyond the Event Horizon
Send us Fan Mail What’s on my mind: The massive gravity of racism: News: The court sides with racist, what else is new: The court also sides with white…
Rational Black ThoughtRational Black Thought Episode #142 June 24, 2023 - Until we break the monopoly the oppressor has on our minds, liberation is not only impossible it is unthinkable… Maulana Karenga
Send us Fan Mail What’s on my mind: Can you think yourself into right living: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/choice-theory_b_58ac99c6e4b0ead5f0d41ec7…
Rational Black ThoughtRational Black Thought Episode #141 June 17, 2023 - The devolution of humanity
Send us Fan Mail What’s on my mind: The corrosive nature of false information: https://sonomasun.com/2018/02/07/the-devolution-of-consciousness/…
Rational Black ThoughtRational Black Thought Episode #140 June 10, 2023 - We must prove our predictions about the future with action…George Jackson
Send us Fan Mail What’s on my mind: Can you make a difference: https://www.fingerprintforsuccess.com/blog/how-to-make-a-difference#:~:text=Whether%20you%E2%80%9…
Rational Black ThoughtRational Black Thought Episode #139 June 3, 2023 - The motivating power of a thorough ass whipping
Send us Fan Mail What’s on my mind: The motivating power of pain: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5350036/#:~:text=The%20sensation%20of%20pain%20ge…
Rational Black ThoughtRational Black Thought Episode #138 May 27, 2023 - "...ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have."— James Baldwin
Send us Fan Mail What’s on my mind: Is it too late: https://chat.openai.com/ News: This is what happens when one asshole joins another…
Rational Black ThoughtRational Black Thought Episode #137 May 20, 2023 - “If those who know why and how neglect to act, those who do not know will act, and the world will continue to flounder.” ― Alfred Korzybski
Send us Fan Mail What’s on my mind: The art of wokeness: https://www.languagehumanities.org/what-is-general-semantics.htm News: Rudy fucked up but no one is…
Rational Black ThoughtRational Black Thought Episode #136 May 13, 2023 - "It Just Looks Like We’re Not Hurting"…Terrie M. Williams
Send us Fan Mail What’s on my mind: Personal Emergent Practice: https://www.optimisticanthro.com/blog/2018/2/8/what-the-heck-is-emergent-learning News: Trump…
Rational Black ThoughtRational Black Thought Episode #135 May 6, 2023 - I really don’t think life is about the I-could-have-beens. Life is only about the I-tried-to-do…Nikki Giovanni
Send us Fan Mail What’s on my mind: Living a Limitless Life: https://summaries.com/blog/limitless News: More shit about Clearance “happy slave” Thomas…
Rational Black ThoughtRational Black Thought Episode #134 April 29, 2023 - All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better…Ralph Waldo Emerson
Send us Fan Mail What’s on my mind: Living Life as a DoE: http://integralleadershipreview.com/6368-integral-life-practice/…
Rational Black ThoughtRational Black Thought Episode #133 April 22, 2023 - Life is tragic simply because…one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.…James Baldwin
Send us Fan Mail What’s on my mind: The Pale Blue Dot and existential anxiety: https://www.planetary.org/worlds/pale-blue-dot…
Rational Black ThoughtRational Black Thought Episode #132 April 15, 2023 - Won't you help to sing, These songs of freedom? Bob Marley
Send us Fan Mail What’s on my mind: Why the Right hates critical thinking: https://louisville.edu/ideastoaction/about/criticalthinking/what News: Racism’s epic…
Rational Black ThoughtRational Black Thought Episode #131 April 8, 2023 - Live like you’re dying
Send us Fan Mail What’s on my mind: Instead of the road less travelled, let’s get off the path…
Rational Black ThoughtRational Black Thought Episode #130 April 1, 2023 - We are the creators of the universe
Send us Fan Mail What’s on my mind: A creative way of being: https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/the-creative-act-rick-rubin-book-review-declan-ryan/ News…
Rational Black ThoughtRational Black Thought Episode #129 March 25, 2023 - The illusion of shades of gray.
Send us Fan Mail What’s on my mind: Identifying and managing nuance: https://kieranhealy.org/files/papers/fuck-nuance.pdf…
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Rational Black Thought Episode #128 March 17, 2023 - So life is just a game, And there is many ways to play, And all you do is choose …Stanley Clarke
Send us Fan Mail What’s on my mind: Winning the game of life: https://yukaichou.com/10k-hp/ News: Trump indictment likely…Not: https://yukaichou.com/10k-hp/…
Rational Black ThoughtRational Black Thought Episode #127 March 11, 2023 - Actions speak louder than words
Send us Fan Mail What’s on my mind: The magic of getting off your ass and doing something: https://www.tonyrobbins.com/pdfs/Workbook-Time-of-your-Life.pdf…