Rational Black Thought
A discussion of all topics as seen through the eyes of a Black Atheist, Skeptic, Humanist, Existentialist
Episodes
256 episodes
Episode #251 – October 11, 2025 – "…see the through line…"
Intro: Quote of the Week: VP Kamala Harris Unmasking the News: How the GOP’s Court Coup Moves Us Closer to One-Party Rule: The Through Line of Capitalism’s Collapse:
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Episode 251
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1:26:55
Episode #250 – October 4, 2025 – "What a fool believes, he sees. No wise man has, the power, To reason away"
Intro: Quote of the Week: M People Unmasking the News:The Guardrails Aren’t “Strained.” They’re Being Stripped for Parts: When the Collar Hides the Crime: Good News...
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Season 2025
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Episode 250
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1:12:16
Episode #249 – September 27, 2025 – "If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor"
Intro: Quote of the Week: Desmond Tutu Unmasking the News: Politics of Power: Structural Racism in a New Suit: Religion as Cover: The Code of the Futu...
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Season 2025
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Episode 249
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1:03:50
Episode #248 – September 20, 2025 – “We are powerful because we have survived, and that is what it is all about—survival and growth.”
Intro:Quote of the Week: Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches Unmasking the News: The Roots of Political Violence: Redistricting as a Weapon Against Black and B...
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Season 2025
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Episode 248
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1:08:51
Episode #247 – September 13, 2025 – “My People! My People!”
Intro: Welcome to Episode 247. Let’s cut through the theater, expose the machinery, and get to the work that makes our people free. Intro: Feedback: Quote of the Week: Zora Neale...
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Season 2025
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Episode 247
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1:12:28
Episode #246 – September 6, 2025 – “The revolution will not be televised…” Gil Scott Heron
Intro: Feedback: Quote of the Week: Malcolm X, “Message to the Grassroots.” Strategies for Black Power: Nation-Building the Nation Within a Nation Unmasking the News: ...
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Season 2025
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Episode 246
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1:51:47
Episode #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
Intro: Quote of the Week: Dr. Amos Wilson Strategies for Black Power: Designing the Afrocentric Individual Operating System: Unmasking the News: Democracy Watch: Personal Rule Co...
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Episode 245
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1:20:06
Episode #244 – August 23, 2025 – It’s bigger than black and white, It's a problem with the whole way of life...” Lil Baby
Intro: Quote of the Week: Angela Davis Strategies for Black Power: Designing Our Own Operating System: Unmasking the News: Democracy Watch: “Democracy” with an Asterisk:
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Episode 244
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1:53:04
Episode #243 – August 16, 2025 – “American hypocrisy, oh, let me count the ways ...” J. Cole
Intro: Feedback: Quote of the Week: Yaa Asantewaa Strategies for Black Power: The Feminine Side of Black Power: Unmasking the News: Democracy Watch: A Coup Happenin...
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Season 2025
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Episode 243
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1:18:31
Episode #242 – August 9, 2025 – “N*****s Are Scared of Revolution” Last Poets
Intro: Quote of the Week: Frantz Fanon Strategies for Black Power: The Rebel’s Clinic: Strategic Prescription for Black Power: Unmasking the News: Democracy Watch: Trump's Author...
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Season 2025
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Episode 242
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1:25:05
Episode #241 – August 2, 2025 – “Racisim's still alive, they just be concealin' it”
Intro: Quote of the Week: Frantz Fanon Strategies for Black Power: Phenomenal Blackness: Unmasking the News: Democracy Watch: Texas Cartographic Coup: Genocide in G...
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Episode 241
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1:19:50
Episode #240 – July 26, 2025 – “How many leaders you said you needed then left 'em for dead?” Kendrick Lamar Mortal Man
Intro: Feedback: Quote of the Week: Audre Lorde Strategies for Black Power: Lessons from Black Philosophy: Unmasking the News: Democracy Watch: Trump’s Name is on the List...
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Season 2025
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Episode 240
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1:33:24
Episode #239 – July 19, 2025 -“F**k silence, speak up b**ch, this s**t ill…f**k cardboard signs, we in the field” YG
Intro: Feedback: Quote of the Week: Malcolm X Strategies for Black Power: Lessons from Black Organized Crime: Unmasking the News: Democracy Watch: A Wildfire of Idi...
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Episode 239
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1:20:42
Episode #238 – July 12, 2025 - Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now
Intro: Feedback: Quote of the Week: Audre Lorde Strategies for Black Power: America Under Siege: Unmasking the News: Update on Democracy: Trump’s Authoritarian Over...
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Episode 238
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1:27:12
Episode #237 – July 5, 2025 - Humans will never be able to inhabit a shared reality without three integral things: facts, truth, and trust
Intro: Feedback: Quote of the Week: Sojourner Truth Strategies for Black Power: Trump, 2073, and the Collapse of Shared Reality Unmasking the News: Update on Democr...
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Episode 237
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1:20:03
Episode #236 – June 28, 2025 - Faith, Fraud, and Financial Firepower: Black Liberation by Any Means Necessary
Intro: Feedback: Quote of the Week: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr Strategies for Black Power: Black Liberation Through Strategic Economic Empowerment Unmasking the News:
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Episode 236
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1:22:59
Episode #235 – June 21, 2025 – Digital Dominion vs Divine Delusion
Intro: Feedback: Quote of the Week: Marcus Garvey Strategies for Black Power: The Digital Dominion: Unmasking the News: Update on Democracy: What a Fucking ...
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Episode 235
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1:16:43
Episode #234 – June 14, 2025 – From Resistance to Revolution
Intro: Feedback: Quote of the Week: Malcolm X Strategies for Black Power: From Resistance to Revolution: Unmasking the News: ICE Out of L.A. & The Latino ...
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Episode 234
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1:34:30
Episode #233 – June 7, 2025 - From Survival to Supremacy: The Blueprint for Black Power
Intro: Feedback: Quote of the Week: Malcolm X Strategies for Black Power: Consistent Themes: Unmasking the News: Trump is Dumb as Fuck: &n...
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Episode 233
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1:10:19
Episode #232 – May 29, 2025 - "If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else." – Booker T. Washington
Feedback: Quote of the Week: Booker T. Washington Strategies for Black Power: What we can Learn from Black Philosophy: Unmasking the News: Trump Targets Black Leadership in...
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Episode 232
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1:43:59
Episode #231 – May 22, 2025 – "America loves the myth of a meritocracy more than anything else…" — Mikki Kendall
Quote of the Week: Mikki Kendall Become Strategic or Die: Learn from Everything Part II: Demystifying the Nonsense, they call the News: Racist to the Core: They Not Like Us:&nbs...
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Episode 231
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1:39:16
RBT Episode 230 May 15, 2025 - "The most marvelous, unbelievable thing about Black people in America is that they exist." — Ibram X. Kendi
Become Strategic or Die: Learn from Everything Part I: Demystifying the Nonsense, they call the News: The Cycle, Black Progress, White Backlash: Too Much Like Right: Preda...
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Episode 230
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1:44:56
RBT Episode 229 May 08, 2025 - “There can be no black-white unity until there is first some black unity...” – Malcolm X
Become Strategic or Die: We Have Always Been at War Part II: Demystifying the Nonsense, they call the News: The Willfully Ignorant: Destruction of a People (Genocide in Gaza): ...
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Episode 229
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1:44:19
RBT Episode 228 May 03, 2025 - “In a racist society, it is not enough to be non-racist. We must be anti-racist.” – Angela Davis
Intro: Become Strategic or Die: We Have Always Been at War: Demystifying the Nonsense, they call the News: To Democrats: Don’t start jerking off before you’re hard: Good Ne...
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Episode 228
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1:24:35
RBT 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
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 Accelerated Collapse of Competence, Character, and Co...
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Season 2025
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Episode 227
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1:24:33
