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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

239 episodes

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 ...

June 14, 2025 • Season 2025 • Episode 234 • 1:34:30

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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...

June 07, 2025 • Season 2025 • Episode 233 • 1:10:19

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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...

May 29, 2025 • Season 2025 • Episode 232 • 1:43:59

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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...

May 22, 2025 • Season 2025 • Episode 231 • 1:39:16

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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...

May 17, 2025 • Season 2025 • Episode 230 • 1:44:56

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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): ...

May 08, 2025 • Season 2025 • Episode 229 • 1:44:19

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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...

May 03, 2025 • Season 2025 • Episode 228 • 1:24:35

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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...

April 20, 2025 • Season 2025 • Episode 227 • 1:24:33

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RBT Episode 226 April 12, 2025 - “People should either be caressed or crushed.” – Niccolo Machiavelli

Become Strategic or Die: Time to Go Machiavellian on they Ass:Demystifying the Nonsense, they call the News: The Destruction of America Project; Status “On Track”: Trump Doesn’t Give AF:...

April 12, 2025 • Season 2025 • Episode 226 • 1:22:00

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RBT Episode 225 April 5, 2025 - “The most powerful people don’t play the game—they control it” – Chase Huges

Become Strategic or Die: Authoring the Story of Life: Demystifying the Nonsense, they call the News: White House Follies: How Trump's Blunders Are Undermining America: Make American “Whites On...

April 05, 2025 • Season 2025 • Episode 225 • 1:37:09

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RBT Episode 224 March 22, 2025 - “The essential element of…mental bondage is self-doubt…” – Kwame Agyei

Become Strategic or Die: The Reality of War: Demystifying the Nonsense, they call the News: MAGA Maggots, Fucking Losers: Chuck’s Folly: Religion, Corruption and Poverty:&nb...

March 22, 2025 • Season 2025 • Episode 224 • 1:10:58

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RBT Episode 223 March 15, 2025 - “ Financial freedom my only hope, Fuck livin' rich and dyin' broke” Jay Z

Become Strategic or Die: Political Power in 2026: Demystifying the Nonsense, they call the News: The Circus: Buying America: Irredeemably Corrupt: Bible Stud...

March 15, 2025 • Season 2025 • Episode 223 • 1:11:04

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RBT 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)

Become Strategic or Die: Everything is Strategy: Demystifying the Nonsense, they call the News: The Cheapening: Not Held to Account: Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics:

March 08, 2025 • Season 2025 • Episode 222 • 1:41:57

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RBT 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

Become Strategic or Die: Blueprint for Black Power, an antifragile framework for success Final Release: Demystifying the Nonsense, they call the News: How’s That Working for You?: The ris...

March 01, 2025 • Season 2025 • Episode 221 • 1:46:25

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RBT 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

Become Strategic or Die: Blueprint for Black Power, an antifragile framework for success Release 5: Demystifying the Nonsense, they call the News: It's Not the Thought that Counts, it’s What the Thought Mak...

February 22, 2025 • Season 2025 • Episode 220 • 1:39:46

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RBT 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

Become Strategic or Die: Blueprint for Black Power, an antifragile framework for success Release 4: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/211874.Blueprint_for_B...

February 15, 2025 • Season 2025 • Episode 219 • 1:30:32

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RBT 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

Become Strategic or Die: Blueprint for Black Power, an antifragile framework for success Release 3: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/211874.Blueprint_for_B...

February 08, 2025 • Season 2025 • Episode 218 • 1:32:39

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RBT 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

Strategy Moment: Blueprint for Black Power, an antifragile framework for success Release 2: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/211874.Blueprint_for_Bla...

February 01, 2025 • Season 2025 • Episode 217 • 1:13:40

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RBT 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

Strategy Moment: Blueprint for Black Power, an antifragile framework for success: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/211874.Blueprint_for_Black_Power

January 25, 2025 • Season 2025 • Episode 216 • 1:04:06

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RBT Episode Special 215 January 18, 2025 - The Return

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 concentrating on antifragile strategies for 2025.

January 18, 2025 • Season 2025 • Episode 215 • 36:06

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RBT Episode Special 214 November 9, 2024 - “A functioning… democracy requires…an educated, morally grounded leadership.” - Chinua Achebe

What’s on my Mind: The Fall of Democracy “A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy, educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership.” - Chinua Achebe We had nei...

November 09, 2024 • Season 2024 • Episode 214 • 56:18

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RBT Episode Special 2024 Election Episode November 6, 2024 - “We are all Fucked” – Neo Grio

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 all Fucked.!Who is to blame?White Men 60%Latino Men 54%White Women 52%Blac...

November 06, 2024 • Season 2024 • Episode 2024 • 42:38

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RBT Episode #213 November 2, 2024 - “… A struggle without casualties is no struggle.” – Steve Biko

What’s on my Mind: A Message of Hate: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/27/trump-madison-square-garden-rally News:&...

November 02, 2024 • Season 2024 • Episode 213 • 46:40

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RBT Episode #212 October 26, 2024 - “We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated.” - Maya Angelou

What’s on my Mind: Predictive Reasoning: https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2024-election-forecast/ News: Trump is Fascist? Duh:...

October 26, 2024 • Season 2024 • Episode 212 • 44:46

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RBT 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

What’s on my Mind: Collective Delusion: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/aug/03/trump-maga-suporters-explain-...

October 19, 2024 • Season 2024 • Episode 211 • 45:28

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