Rational Black Thought
A discussion of all topics as seen through the eyes of a Black Atheist, Skeptic, Humanist, Existentialist
Episodes
270 episodes
Episode #265 – January 17, 2026 – “The Constitution, a noble piece of paper Would free society. It struggled but then died in vain”
Welcome to Rational Black Thought. I’m your host, Neo Griot. This week’s theme: Is about moving beyond survival, it is time for us to stop “living to fight another day” and to start fighting to win…for good. Our title today comes fr...
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Season 2026
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Episode 265
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1:32:55
Episode #264 – January 10, 2026 – “I feel like the destinies of those meant / To be the best / Are in the hands of liars now the world is on fire”
Our title today comes from Ay-Shay (an African musician) from her song “The Way I Feel” whose words really struck me this week, some of the other lines from this song are: I feel like I'm not the only one who's frustrated ...
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Season 2026
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Episode 264
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1:14:19
Episode #263 – January 3, 2026 – “The Year-End Audit: Receipts, Forecasts, and the God-Argument Hustle”
Welcome to Rational Black Thought. I’m your host, Neo Griot—secular humanist, skeptic, atheist, Afrocentric, Pan-African… and morally allergic to propaganda. This is a year-end audit episode. Not a highlight reel. Not a “best-of” m...
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Season 2025
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Episode 263
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1:25:21
Episode #262 – December 27, 2025 – “Each generation must, out of relative obscurity, discover its mission, fulfill it, or betray it.”
Intro: Quote of the Week: Frantz Fanon Unmasking the News: Democracy Watch: When Reality Collapses at the Top: Foreign Policy Watch: “Quarantine” as Empire-Speak and Nigeria: A C...
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Season 2025
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Episode 262
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56:35
Episode #261 – December 20, 2025 – Power Without Conscience
Intro: Quote of the Week: James Baldwin Unmasking the News: Democracy Watch: The Chief of Staff as Confessor: When the Mask Slips: When Empathy Dies, Fascism Smiles:
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Season 2025
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Episode 261
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55:33
Episode #260 – December 13, 2025 – “Random Musing” by Neo Griot
The Irrational Resolution of Cognitive Dissonance (Case Study)Brief SetupWhat Was SaidCognitive Dissonance 101How the Somali Republican’s Mind Is Likely WorkingIdentity-Protective Cognition...
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Season 2025
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Episode 260
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56:35
Episode #259 – December 6, 2025
Intro: Quote of the Week: Maya Angelou “For Africa to me... is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he ...
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Season 2025
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Episode 259
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1:40:43
Episode #258 – November 29, 2025
Intro: Quote of the Week: Bell Hooks“...“white supremacy” is a much more useful term for understanding the complicity of people of color in upholding and maintaining racial hierarchies that do not involve force ...
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Season 2025
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Episode 258
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1:27:42
Episode #257 – November 22, 2025 – “In a land of liars, an honest man is always at a disadvantage …”
Intro: Quote of the Week: Neo Griot Unmasking the News: When You Pay the Ransom, You Get More Hostages: White supremacy never retired: When Churches Say “No” To A H...
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Season 2025
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Episode 257
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1:39:48
Episode #256 – November 15, 2025
Intro: Quote of the Week:“…equality must be won — by every generation — because it will never be freely granted.” -- Charles M. BlowUnmasking the News: The Cost of Caving:
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Season 2025
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Episode 256
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1:08:21
Episode #255 – November 8, 2025 – “If you understand how money can work for and against you, you can make better decisions.”
Intro: Quote of the Week: Mellody Hobson Unmasking the News: What 11/4/25 Actually Tells Us: Executive Power, Pocketbook Pain, and What Comes Next: The Oklahoma Bis...
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Season 2025
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Episode 255
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1:28:37
Episode #254 – November 1, 2025 – “The truth is a double-edged sword…”
Intro: Quote of the Week: James Baldwin Unmasking the News: The Third-Term Trial Balloon: Instrument Panel for Project 2025: When a Pastor Treats Repentance Like a ...
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Season 2025
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Episode 255
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1:15:32
Episode #253 – October 25, 2025 – “It is not unity that we must seek but collective consciousness.”
Intro: Quote of the Week: Molefi Kete Asante and Thabiso Monkoe, The Azanian Unmasking the News: Authoritarians Don’t Renovate — They Re-purpose the State for Themselves: When th...
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Season 2025
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Episode 253
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1:06:00
Episode #252 – October 18, 2025 – “I feel that the reason why racism is so blatant…is because it has helped those capitalists gain more and more profit.”
Intro: Quote of the Week: Angela Davis Unmasking the News: A Mirror to Political Hypocrisy: Racism Isn’t a Bug—It’s a Feature: “Father” as Predator:...
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Season 2025
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Episode 252
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1:09:38
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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Season 2025
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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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Season 2025
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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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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
