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Rational Black Thought
Episodes — page 3
Episode #257 – November 22, 2025 – “In a land of liars, an honest man is always at a disadvantage …”Send us Fan Mail 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…
Episode #256 – November 15, 2025Send us Fan Mail Intro: Quote of the Week: “…equality must be won — by every generation — because it will never be freely granted.” -- Charles M. Blow Unmasking the News: The Cos…
Episode #255 – November 8, 2025 – “If you understand how money can work for and against you, you can make better decisions.”Send us Fan Mail 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…
Episode #254 – November 1, 2025 – “The truth is a double-edged sword…”Send us Fan Mail 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 Lik…
Episode #253 – October 25, 2025 – “It is not unity that we must seek but collective consciousness.”Send us Fan Mail 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 T…
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.”Send us Fan Mail 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:Good News: A…
Episode #251 – October 11, 2025 – "…see the through line…"Send us Fan Mail 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 Coll…
Episode #250 – October 4, 2025 – "What a fool believes, he sees. No wise man has, the power, To reason away"Send us Fan Mail 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…
Episode #249 – September 27, 2025 – "If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor"Send us Fan Mail 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 Future: Strate…
Episode #248 – September 20, 2025 – “We are powerful because we have survived, and that is what it is all about—survival and growth.”Send us Fan Mail Intro: Quote of the Week: Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches Unmasking the News: The Roots of Political Violence: Redistricting as a Weapon Agains…
Episode #247 – September 13, 2025 – “My People! My People!”Send us Fan Mail 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 t…
Episode #246 – September 6, 2025 – “The revolution will not be televised…” Gil Scott HeronSend us Fan Mail Intro: Feedback: Quote of the Week: Malcolm X, “Message to the Grassroots.” Strategies for Black Power: Nation-Building the Nation Within a Nation Unmasking th…
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 WilsonSend us Fan Mail Intro: Quote of the Week: Dr. Amos Wilson Strategies for Black Power: Designing the Afrocentric Individual Operating System: Unmasking the News: Democracy Watc…
Episode #244 – August 23, 2025 – It’s bigger than black and white, It's a problem with the whole way of life...” Lil BabySend us Fan Mail Intro: Quote of the Week: Angela Davis Strategies for Black Power: Designing Our Own Operating System: Unmasking the News: Democracy Watch: “Democracy” with an…
Episode #243 – August 16, 2025 – “American hypocrisy, oh, let me count the ways ...” J. ColeSend us Fan Mail 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 Ha…
Episode #242 – August 9, 2025 – “N*****s Are Scared of Revolution” Last PoetsSend us Fan Mail Intro: Quote of the Week: Frantz Fanon Strategies for Black Power: The Rebel’s Clinic: Strategic Prescription for Black Power: Unmasking the News: Democracy Wa…
Episode #241 – August 2, 2025 – “Racisim's still alive, they just be concealin' it”Send us Fan Mail Intro: Quote of the Week: Frantz Fanon Strategies for Black Power: Phenomenal Blackness: Unmasking the News: Democracy Watch: Texas Cartographic Coup: Genocide…
Episode #240 – July 26, 2025 – “How many leaders you said you needed then left 'em for dead?” Kendrick Lamar Mortal ManSend us Fan Mail 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…
Episode #239 – July 19, 2025 -“F**k silence, speak up b**ch, this s**t ill…f**k cardboard signs, we in the field” YGSend us Fan Mail Intro: Feedback: Quote of the Week: Malcolm X Strategies for Black Power: Lessons from Black Organized Crime: Unmasking the News: Democracy Watch: A Wildfire…
Episode #238 – July 12, 2025 - Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the nowSend us Fan Mail Intro: Feedback: Quote of the Week: Audre Lorde Strategies for Black Power: America Under Siege: Unmasking the News: Update on Democracy: Trump’s Authoritaria…
