Rational Black Thought
A discussion of all topics as seen through the eyes of a Black Atheist, Skeptic, Humanist, Existentialist
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 82 minutes
- Episodes
- 251
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
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:
- First They Come fo…
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 Comes to …
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:
- Democrats Final…
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 Happening in Daylight:
- Now th…
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 Authoritarian…
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 Gaza:
- Retribution Disg…
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? No Sh!t:
- Hu…
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 Idiocy Trump Can't Extin…
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 Overreach:
- Here’s the pl…
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 Democracy: Big Beautiful De…
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:
- Update on Democracy…
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 Fool:
- Pimps and Preachers:
- G…
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 Trump Paradox:
- SCOTUS vs. Bla…
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:
- Mississippi’s Jim Crow 2.0:
- Gateway to Hell:
- Go…
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 Military:
- …
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:
- The Murder…
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:
- Predators in the …
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):
- Men Choo…
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 News: Still I …
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, Characte…