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
Rational Black Thought Episode #167 December 16, 2023 - “A lot of people use this analogy that Black Lives Matter is a movement. It’s not a movement. When you’re black, it’s not a movement. It’s a lifestyle.” — LeBron James
Philosophy: How Black people in America can Survive and/or Thrive:
News:
- Hypocrisy is the point:
Rational Black Thought Episode #166 December 9, 2023 - ““If people were given the choice between democracy and whiteness, how many would choose whiteness?” ― Taylor Branch
Philosophy: The reality of war:
News:
- The, mostly, untold story:
- The truth is the Republicans have no …
Rational Black Thought Episode #165 December 2, 2023 - “Negative media reinforcements… affect how young blacks view themselves.” ― Tom Burrell
Philosophy: Prompt Engineering the Mind:
Rational Black Thought Episode #164 November 25, 2023 - "Perseverance is in our DNA"...Elle McKinney
Philosophy: The global doom loop:
Closing: They call this justice, but it’s not:
Rational Black Thought Episode #163 November 18, 2023 - "You can either be right or you can be in a relationship"
Philosophy: The Art and Science of Compromise:
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- True Colors:
- To cult or not to cult:
Rational Black Thought Episode #162 November 11, 2023 - "so life is just a game, and there is many ways to play, and all you do is choose" – Stanley Clarke
Philosophy: The Game of Life:
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- We are in a death spiral:
- This shit never ends:
Rational Black Thought Episode #161 November 04, 2023 - "You never change things by fighting the existing reality" – R. Buckminster Fuller
Feedback: What’s on my mind: Designed Reality:
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- Mo money, mo money:
Rational Black Thought Episode #160 October 28, 2023 - "He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life." - Muhammad Ali
What’s on my mind: The psychology of Achievement:
Rational Black Thought Episode #159 October 21, 2023 - “Love is hate, War is peace, No is yes, And we're all free.” – Tracy Chapman
What’s on my mind: The illogical rules of war:
Rational Black Thought Episode #158 October 14, 2023 - “The oppressor has always indoctrinated the weak with his interpretation of the crimes of the strong.” - Carter G Woodson
What’s on my mind: Constructed history:
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- The Israeli Hamas War:
- The Chaos Caucus Continues:
Rational Black Thought Episode #157 October 7, 2023 - "Slave masters thought they were making a difference in black people’s lives too…Same shit, different century” … Angie Thomas
What’s on my mind: Let’s settle this shit:
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- Bye-bye Kevin:
Rational Black Thought Episode #156 September 30, 2023 - "As a Black man I am not going to allow myself to be programmed to not love myself” …Sean Combs
What’s on my mind: The human monoprint:
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- The closest Trump should get to WH again, is…
Rational Black Thought Episode #155 September 23, 2023 - – If the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought…Dante
What’s on my mind: We are already in hell:
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· This is stupidity:
Rational Black Thought Episode #154 September 16, 2023 - Our problem is the disintegration of a sense of peoplehood…Asa Hilliard
What’s on my mind: The disintegration of personhood:
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- What have we become:
Rational Black Thought Episode #153 September 9, 2023 - We Are Not Born Revolutionary. Revolutionaries are forged through constant struggle"…James Forman
What’s on my mind: The psychology of revolt:
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- Pence tries to grow a pair…and fails:
Rational Black Thought Episode #152 September 2, 2023 - “…our beautiful youth...”
Intro: “We can no longer allow them to under-educate, mis-educate, and control the minds of our beautiful youth, turning them into “Negro puppets” of poison, who feast upon a filthy die…
Rational Black Thought Episode #151 August 26, 2023 - “… I'm going to try to find out the new ideas before the others do.” Ella Fitzgerald
What’s on my mind: Risk without fear:
- https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/thought-experiment/
- https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/job.2658
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- Disappearing proof:
Rational Black Thought Episode #150 - August 19, 2023 - We the people that are darker than blue…Curtis Mayfield
What’s on my mind: The reality of human behavior:
Rational Black Thought Episode #149 August 12, 2023 - Fly like an Eagle… Steve Miller Band
What’s on my mind: The figure and ground of systemic oppression:
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- When I move, you move, just like tha…
Rational Black Thought Episode #148 August 5, 2023 - You may write me down in history, With your bitter, twisted lies, You may trod me in the very dirt, But still, like dust, I’ll rise. Maya Angelo
What’s on my mind: The futility of racism:
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- Felonious Record: