
Rational Black Thought
A discussion of all topics as seen through the eyes of a Black Atheist, Skeptic, Humanist, Existentialist
Episodes
249 episodes
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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Season 2025
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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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Season 2025
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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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Season 2025
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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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Season 2025
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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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Season 2025
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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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Season 2025
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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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Season 2025
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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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Season 2025
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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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Season 2025
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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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Season 2025
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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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Season 2025
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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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Season 2025
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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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Season 2025
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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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Season 2025
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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

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:...
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Season 2025
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Episode 226
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1:22:00

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...
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Season 2025
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Episode 225
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1:37:09

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...
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Season 2025
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Episode 224
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1:10:58

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...
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Season 2025
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Episode 223
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1:11:04

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:
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Season 2025
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Episode 222
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1:41:57

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...
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Season 2025
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Episode 221
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1:46:25

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...
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Season 2025
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Episode 220
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1:39:46
