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Rational Black Thought — 286 episodes

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Episode 281, May 9, 2026 - “Never looking back or too far in front of me-The present is a gift, and I just wanna be”

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Episode 280, May 2, 2026 - “The same people who control the school system - Control the prison system”

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Episode 279, April 25, 2026 - “Until the philosophy which hold one race Superior and another Inferior Is… Abandoned Everywhere is war”

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Episode 278, April 18, 2026 -- “Was all that money I made last year For whitey on the moon?”

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Episode 277, April 11, 2026 -- “Black is not divisive, they been lyin', and I hate the shit-Black has never been a competition, we all make this shit”

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Episode 276, April 4, 2026 -- “Make America great again the middle just love it / When he wanna talk, walk y’all straight to them ovens”

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Episode #275 | Is the Total Story Told or Is It They Hide You From?

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Rational Black Thought Ep. 274 | Trump, Iran, Empire and the Politics of Devouring People

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Episode #273 – March 14, 2026 – “You need to get up, get out, and get something”

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Episode #272 – March 7, 2026 – “Living under my greatness / What don’t kill me is motivation.” Anderson Paak

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Episode #271 – February 28, 2026 – “Crawling through a systematic maze…And it pains to demise…Pain in our eyes…”

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Episode #270 – February 21, 2026 – “Our culture beautiful, battle-tested and tough, we had enough-So you either come with some change or it's gon' be rough-Period"

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Episode #269 – February 14, 2026 – “Drug dealer buy Jordans, crackhead buy crack / And a white man get paid off of all of that”

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Episode #268 – February 6, 2026 -- We're gonna move on up-Two by two-And this whole world-Is gonna be brand-new-Am I black enough for you?

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Episode #267 – January 31, 2026 -- “ Y'all think it's bougie, I'm like, it's fine But I'm tryin' to give you a million dollars worth of game for $9.99.”

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Episode #266 – January 24, 2026 -- “We are the winners if we unclose our eyes.”

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Episode #265 – January 17, 2026 – “The Constitution, a noble piece of paper Would free society. It struggled but then died in vain”

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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”

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Episode #263 – January 3, 2026 – “The Year-End Audit: Receipts, Forecasts, and the God-Argument Hustle”

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Episode #262 – December 27, 2025 – “Each generation must, out of relative obscurity, discover its mission, fulfill it, or betray it.”

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Episode #261 – December 20, 2025 – Power Without Conscience

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Episode #260 – December 13, 2025 – “Random Musing” by Neo Griot

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Episode #259 – December 6, 2025

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Episode #258 – November 29, 2025

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Episode #257 – November 22, 2025 – “In a land of liars, an honest man is always at a disadvantage …”

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Episode #256 – November 15, 2025

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Episode #255 – November 8, 2025 – “If you understand how money can work for and against you, you can make better decisions.”

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Episode #254 – November 1, 2025 – “The truth is a double-edged sword…”

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Episode #253 – October 25, 2025 – “It is not unity that we must seek but collective consciousness.”

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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.”

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Episode #251 – October 11, 2025 – "…see the through line…"

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Episode #250 – October 4, 2025 – "What a fool believes, he sees. No wise man has, the power, To reason away"

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Episode #249 – September 27, 2025 – "If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor"

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Episode #248 – September 20, 2025 – “We are powerful because we have survived, and that is what it is all about—survival and growth.”

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Episode #247 – September 13, 2025 – “My People! My People!”

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Episode #246 – September 6, 2025 – “The revolution will not be televised…” Gil Scott Heron

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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

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Episode #244 – August 23, 2025 – It’s bigger than black and white, It's a problem with the whole way of life...” Lil Baby

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Episode #243 – August 16, 2025 – “American hypocrisy, oh, let me count the ways ...” J. Cole

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Episode #242 – August 9, 2025 – “N*****s Are Scared of Revolution” Last Poets

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Episode #241 – August 2, 2025 – “Racisim's still alive, they just be concealin' it”

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Episode #240 – July 26, 2025 – “How many leaders you said you needed then left 'em for dead?” Kendrick Lamar Mortal Man

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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

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Episode #238 – July 12, 2025 - Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now

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Episode #237 – July 5, 2025 - Humans will never be able to inhabit a shared reality without three integral things: facts, truth, and trust

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Episode #236 – June 28, 2025 - Faith, Fraud, and Financial Firepower: Black Liberation by Any Means Necessary

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Episode #235 – June 21, 2025 – Digital Dominion vs Divine Delusion

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Episode #234 – June 14, 2025 – From Resistance to Revolution

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Episode #233 – June 7, 2025 - From Survival to Supremacy: The Blueprint for Black Power

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Episode #232 – May 29, 2025 - "If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else." – Booker T. Washington

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Episode #231 – May 22, 2025 – "America loves the myth of a meritocracy more than anything else…" — Mikki Kendall

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RBT Episode 230 May 15, 2025 - "The most marvelous, unbelievable thing about Black people in America is that they exist." — Ibram X. Kendi

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RBT Episode 229 May 08, 2025 - “There can be no black-white unity until there is first some black unity...” – Malcolm X

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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

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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

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RBT Episode 226 April 12, 2025 - “People should either be caressed or crushed.” – Niccolo Machiavelli

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RBT Episode 225 April 5, 2025 - “The most powerful people don’t play the game—they control it” – Chase Huges

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RBT Episode 224 March 22, 2025 - “The essential element of…mental bondage is self-doubt…” – Kwame Agyei

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RBT Episode 223 March 15, 2025 - “ Financial freedom my only hope, Fuck livin' rich and dyin' broke” Jay Z

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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)

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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

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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

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RBT Episode 219 February 15, 2025 - “The election of Blacks to high office, even to the highest office…will do relatively little to enhance the power of the Afrikan American Community…” – Amos Wilson

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RBT Episode 218 February 8, 2025 - The ruling White male corporate elite utilizes a variety of processes to maintain the sociopolitical-socioeconomic system from which it benefits munificently…” – Amos Wilson

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RBT Episode 217 February 1, 2025 Corrected Audio - “The Black Church has not only underdeveloped the power potential of the Black Community, but has actually squandered its potential…” – Amos Wilson

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RBT Episode 216 January 25, 2025 - “As I often tell people, the most practical thing you can have, is a good theory, a good concept to guide your behavior” – Amos Wilson

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RBT Episode Special 215 January 18, 2025 - The Return

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RBT Episode Special 214 November 9, 2024 - “A functioning… democracy requires…an educated, morally grounded leadership.” - Chinua Achebe

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RBT Episode Special 2024 Election Episode November 6, 2024 - “We are all Fucked” – Neo Grio

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RBT Episode #213 November 2, 2024 - “… A struggle without casualties is no struggle.” – Steve Biko

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RBT Episode #212 October 26, 2024 - “We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated.” - Maya Angelou

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RBT Episode #211 October 19, 2024 - “People like to say that the conflict is between good and evil. The real conflict is between truth and lies.” — Don Miguel Ruiz

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RBT Episode #210 October 12, 2024 - Ours is not the struggle of one day, one week, or one year… Ours is the struggle of a lifetime…” — John Lewis

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RBT Episode #209 October 5, 2024 - “Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing themselves.” ― Leo Tolstoy

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RBT Episode #208 September 28, 2024 - "Truth does not change, only our awareness of it." — Malcolm X

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RBT Episode #207 September 21, 2024 - "We are the change that we seek.” —Barack Obama

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RBT Episode #206 September 14, 2024 - "If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters." - Colin Powell

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RBT Episode #205 September 7, 2024 - “I am trying to become the strongest person I can become to live the life I have been given…” — Audre Lorde

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RBT Episode #204 August 31, 2024 - "A loaded brain is more powerful than a loaded gun." — Ernest William Chambers

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RBT Episode #203 August 24, 2024 - "All too often, when we see injustices, both great and small…we do nothing. We remain silent... When we say nothing, when we do nothing, we are consenting to these trespasses against us." — Roxane Gay, Bad Feminist

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RBT Episode #202 August 17, 2024 - “Unless we…defeat the enemies in our own country, poverty and racism, we are exposed in the eyes of the world as hypocrites…” —Shirley Chisholm

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Rational Black Thought Episode 201 – August 10, 2024 – “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” ― Maya Angelou

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Rational Black Thought Episode 200 – August 3, 2024 – “whether you grab hold of an inflection point and leverage it for all it’s worth or just let it carry you along – is as important as the event itself.”— Eric C. Sinoway

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Rational Black Thought Episode 199 – July 27, 2024 – “We should… protest openly everything... that smacks of discrimination or slander."- Mary McLeod Bethune

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Rational Black Thought Episode 198 – July 20, 2024 – “Choice is an illusion created between those with power and those without” The Matrix Reloaded

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Rational Black Thought Episode #197 July 13, 2024 - “If you don't know where you want to go, then it doesn't matter which path you take.” ― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

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Rational Black Thought Episode 196 – July 6, 2024 – “…over here We measure success by how many people successful next to you…” Jay Z

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Rational Black Thought Episode #195 June 29, 2024 - "They smilin' in your face. All the time, they want to take your place, The back stabbers" – O’ Jays

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Rational Black Thought Episode #194 June 22, 2024 - “A mistake repeated more than once is a decision.” - Paulo Coelho

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Rational Black Thought Episode #193 June 15, 2024 - “If I were my own role-playing game character, I would never just stay in town, be idle and do nothing” – Yu-kai Chou

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Rational Black Thought Episode #192 June 8, 2024 - “It is easier to defend what we call reality than to question it.” – Marcia Reynolds

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Rational Black Thought Episode #191 August 1, 2024 - “Choose...virtue over vulgarity...” — Ken Burns

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Rational Black Thought Episode #190 May 25, 2024 - “They are bad with the conviction that they are good.” — Heather O'Neill

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Rational Black Thought Episode #189 May 18, 2024 - “Please don't die over the neighborhood…That your mama renting” Jay-Z

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Rational Black Thought Episode #188 May 4, 2024 - “We can't operate with one party and a cult." - Norm Ornstein

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Rational Black Thought Episode #187 May 4, 2024 - “As we receive, we give; as we give, we receive.” – Laurie E. Smith

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Rational Black Thought Episode #186 April 27, 2024 - “There can be no perfect democracy curtailed by color, race, or poverty. But with all we accomplish all, even Peace.” - W. E. B. Du Bois

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Rational Black Thought Episode #185 April 20, 2024 - “The way to right wrongs is to shine the light of truth on them.” — Ida B. Wells

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Rational Black Thought Episode #184 April 13, 2024 - "We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated."- Maya Angelou

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Rational Black Thought Episode #183 April 06, 2024 - “Who you are speaks so loudly I can't hear what you're saying.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Rational Black Thought Episode #182 March 30, 2024 - ““Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” MLK Jr.

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Rational Black Thought Episode #181 March 23, 2024 - “Slavery was not merely an unfortunate thing that happened to black people. It was an American innovation…” ― Isabel Wilkerson

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Rational Black Thought Episode #180 March 16, 2024 -“Humanism is a philosophy that centers on the needs, interests, and abilities of human beings… — Anne Klaeysen

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Rational Black Thought Episode #179 March 9, 2024 - “For this is your home, my friend, do not be driven from it…” James Baldwin

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Rational Black Thought Episode #178 March 02, 2024 - “I am America. I am the part you won’t recognize. But get used to me.” —Muhammad Ali

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Rational Black Thought Episode #177 February 24, 2024 - “People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction…” ― James Baldwin

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Rational Black Thought Episode #176 February 17, 2024 - "Ours is the struggle of a lifetime, or maybe even many lifetimes, and each one of us in every generation must do our part.” - John Lewis

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Rational Black Thought Episode #175 February 10, 2024 - Being black is not a matter of pigmentation - being black is a reflection of a mental attitude." Steve Biko

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Rational Black Thought Episode #174 February 03, 2024 - “Your life is already artful- waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.” — Toni Morrison

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Rational Black Thought Episode #173 January 27, 2024 - – “I’ve had enough of someone else’s propaganda… I’m for truth, no matter who tells it…” ― Malcolm X

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Rational Black Thought Episode #172 January 20, 2024 - “The colonialists care nothing for Africa for her own sake.” Patrice Lumumba

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Rational Black Thought Episode #171 January 13, 2024 - “The storytelling mind is allergic to uncertainty, randomness, and coincidence…” — Jonathan Gottschall

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Rational Black Thought Episode #170 January 06, 2024 - “Reason begins where speculation ends. Facts begin where assumptions end. Truth begins where ignorance ends. Wisdom begins where knowledge ends" - Matshona Dhliwayo

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Rational Black Thought Episode #169 December 30, 2023 - ““The only protection against injustice…is power—physical, financial and scientific” Marcus Garvey

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Rational Black Thought Episode #168 December 23, 2023 - “Everyone wants a strong [Black] woman until she actually stands up, flexes her muscles, projects her voice…” ― Ari Eastman

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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

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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

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Rational Black Thought Episode #165 December 2, 2023 - “Negative media reinforcements… affect how young blacks view themselves.” ― Tom Burrell

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Rational Black Thought Episode #164 November 25, 2023 - "Perseverance is in our DNA"...Elle McKinney

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Rational Black Thought Episode #163 November 18, 2023 - "You can either be right or you can be in a relationship"

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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

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Rational Black Thought Episode #161 November 04, 2023 - "You never change things by fighting the existing reality" – R. Buckminster Fuller

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Rational Black Thought Episode #160 October 28, 2023 - "He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life." - Muhammad Ali

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Rational Black Thought Episode #159 October 21, 2023 - “Love is hate, War is peace, No is yes, And we're all free.” – Tracy Chapman

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Rational Black Thought Episode #154 September 16, 2023 - Our problem is the disintegration of a sense of peoplehood…Asa Hilliard

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Rational Black Thought Episode #153 September 9, 2023 - We Are Not Born Revolutionary. Revolutionaries are forged through constant struggle"…James Forman

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Rational Black Thought Episode #152 September 2, 2023 - “…our beautiful youth...”

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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

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Rational Black Thought Episode #150 - August 19, 2023 - We the people that are darker than blue…Curtis Mayfield

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Rational Black Thought Episode #149 August 12, 2023 - Fly like an Eagle… Steve Miller Band

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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

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Rational Black Thought Episode #147 July 29, 2023 - I think with [AI] we’ll augment our intelligence.”

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Rational Black Thought Episode #146 July 22, 2023 - Occupy all Spaces…Kevin Richardson

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Rational Black Thought Episode #145 July 15, 2023 - Truth is powerful, and it prevails." —Sojourner Truth

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Rational Black Thought Episode #144 Jully 8, 2023 - To Kill a Mockingbird

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Rational Black Thought Episode #143 July 1, 2023 - Beyond the Event Horizon

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Rational Black Thought Episode #142 June 24, 2023 - Until we break the monopoly the oppressor has on our minds, liberation is not only impossible it is unthinkable… Maulana Karenga

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Rational Black Thought Episode #141 June 17, 2023 - The devolution of humanity

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Rational Black Thought Episode #140 June 10, 2023 - We must prove our predictions about the future with action…George Jackson

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Rational Black Thought Episode #139 June 3, 2023 - The motivating power of a thorough ass whipping

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Rational Black Thought Episode #138 May 27, 2023 - "...ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have."— James Baldwin

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Rational Black Thought Episode #137 May 20, 2023 - “If those who know why and how neglect to act, those who do not know will act, and the world will continue to flounder.” ― Alfred Korzybski

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Rational Black Thought Episode #136 May 13, 2023 - "It Just Looks Like We’re Not Hurting"…Terrie M. Williams

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Rational Black Thought Episode #135 May 6, 2023 - I really don’t think life is about the I-could-have-beens. Life is only about the I-tried-to-do…Nikki Giovanni

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Rational Black Thought Episode #134 April 29, 2023 - All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better…Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Rational Black Thought Episode #133 April 22, 2023 - Life is tragic simply because…one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.…James Baldwin

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Rational Black Thought Episode #132 April 15, 2023 - Won't you help to sing, These songs of freedom? Bob Marley

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Rational Black Thought Episode #131 April 8, 2023 - Live like you’re dying

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Rational Black Thought Episode #130 April 1, 2023 - We are the creators of the universe

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Rational Black Thought Episode #129 March 25, 2023 - The illusion of shades of gray.

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Rational Black Thought Episode #128 March 17, 2023 - So life is just a game, And there is many ways to play, And all you do is choose …Stanley Clarke

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Rational Black Thought Episode #127 March 11, 2023 - Actions speak louder than words

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Rational Black Thought Episode #126 March 4, 2023 - The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place…George Bernard Shaw

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Rational Black Thought Episode #125 – February 25, 2023 – Just a little bit of love to make it right…Curtis Mayfield

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Rational Black Thought Episode #124 February 18, 2023 - Survival is not enough, survival has never been enough…Black Cake

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Rational Black Thought Episode #123 February 11, 2023 - I have marched until my feet have bled, And I have rioted until they called the feds, What's left, My conscience said…Revolution…Arrested Development

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Rational Black Thought Episode #122 February 04, 2023 - They don’t know their language, they don’t know they’re god, They take what their given, Even when it seems odd…Erykah Badu Twinkle

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Rational Black Thought Episode #121 January 28, 2023 - Do you see me or do you see what you what to see?

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Rational Black Thought Episode #120 January 21, 2023 - To be human is like being a weed

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Rational Black Thought Episode #119 January 14, 2023 - It's a dangerous thing to mistake speaking without thought for speaking the truth...Glass Onion

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Rational Black Thought Episode #118 January 7, 2023 - Don't Shit in the Well you Drink from...African proverb

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Rational Black Thought Episode #117 December 31, 2022 - Happy New Year!

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Rational Black Thought Episode #116 December 24, 2022 - Now or Never...The Roots

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Rational Black Thought Episode #115 December 17, 2022 - The cuckoo caucus doesn’t care!

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Rational Black Thought Episode #114 December 10, 2022 - “…there are too many idiots on the earth…"Frantz Fanon

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Rational Black Thought Episode #113 December 03, 2022 - Come with me…Song by Nneka

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Rational Black Thought Episode #112 November 26, 2022 - Pushin’ Against a Stone…Song by Valerie June

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Rational Black Thought Episode #111 November 19, 2022 -Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them — Assata Shakur

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Rational Black Thought Episode #110 November 12, 2022 - Never be limited by other people’s limited imaginations.—Dr. Mae Jemison

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Rational Black Thought Episode #109 November 05, 2022 - If we accept and acquiesce in the face of discrimination, we accept the responsibility ourselves - Mary McLeod Bethune

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Rational Black Thought Episode #108 October 29, 2022 -Be an asshole when the shit hits the fan…The Roots Undun

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Rational Black Thought Episode #107 October 22, 2022 - I Must Live in a Parallel Universe

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Rational Black Thought Episode #106 October 15, 2022 - She lives a life she didn't choose, and it hurts like brand new shoes

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Rational Black Thought Episode #105 October 08, 2022 - The Giving Tree Gave too F'n Much

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Rational Black Thought Episode #104 October 01, 2022 - Tainted by Trump

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Rational Black Thought Episode #103 September 24, 2022 - In a failing democracy, justice is the first to go

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Rational Black Thought Episode #102 September 17, 2022 - The State of Black Nonbelief

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Rational Black Thought Episode #101 September 10, 2021 - Worst comes to worst, my peoples come first…Dilated Peoples

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Rational Black Thought Episode #100 September 3, 2022 - Ya’ll been warned…Wu-Tang

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Rational Black Thought Episode #99 August 27, 2022 - Defining myself, as opposed to being defined by others, is one of the most difficult challenges I face…Carol Moseley-Braun

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Rational Black Thought Episode #98 August 20, 2022 - When I rolled with the punches, I got knocked on the ground, With all this bullshit going down… The Isley Brothers

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Rational Black Thought Episode #97 August 13, 2022 - Even in dark times, we not only dream, we do…” Kamala Harris

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Rational Black Thought Episode #96 August 6, 2022 - Reset: Quiet Victories and Celebrated Defeats… Ambrose Akinmusire

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Rational Black Thought Episode #95 July 30, 2022 – How many of you wish you had taken the “blue” pill?

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Rational Black Thought Episode #94 July 23, 2022 - We want the full works of citizenship with no reservations…A. Philip Randolph

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Rational Black Thought Episode #93 July 26, 2021 - “You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world” …Angela Davis

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Rational Black Thought Episode #92 July 9, 2022 - “Frightened by Hope”

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Rational Black Thought Episode #91 July 2, 2022 - Sacred Cows…And Other Edibles…Nikki Giovanni

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Rational Black Thought Episode #90 June 25, 2022 - It is time we Negroes learn that you can’t get something for nothing…Zora Neal Hurston

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Rational Black Thought Episode #89 June 18, 2022 - Better be unborn than untaught, for ignorance is the root of misfortune…Plato

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Rational Black Thought Episode #88 June 11, 2022 - How long ye simple ones...Proverbs 1:22

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Rational Black Thought Episode #87 June 04, 2022 - Unbought, Unbossed, Unbothered…

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Rational Black Thought Episode #86 May 28, 2022 -Take back your existence or die like a punk…Big Rube (Outkast)

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Rational Black Thought Episode #85 May 21, 2022 - It’s a new world order, a brand new day, a change of mind for the human race…Curtis Mayfield

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Rational Black Thought Episode #84 May 14, 2022 - To understand their strategy, you have to know their endgame

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Rational Black Thought Episode #83 May 7, 2022 - I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take it anymore…

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Rational Black Thought Episode #82 APR 30, 2022 - If I can’t do great things, I can do small things in a great way…MLK

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Rational Black Thought Episode # 81 April 23, 2022 - There are no alternative facts

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Rational Black Thought Episode #80 April 16, 2022 - Deeds Not Words...Max Roach

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Rational Black Thought Episode #79 APR 09, 2022 - “…we are not nonviolent with anyone who is violent with us.” – Malcom X

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Rational Black Thought Episode #78 April 02, 2021 - If you don't change language, you can't change the way people think

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Rational Black Thought Episode #77 March 26, 2022 - "My dear, when people show you who they are, why don’t you believe them?” — Maya Angelou to Oprah Winfrey

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Rational Black Thought Episode #76 March 19, 2022 - The Centre Cannot Hold...Yeats

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Rational Black Thought Episode #75 March 12, 2022 - Don't push me cause I'm close to the edge...Grandmaster Flash

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Rational Black Thought Episode #74 March 5, 2022 - Everyone has a plan, until they get punched in the mouth…Mike Tyson

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Rational Black Thought Episode #73 Feb 26, 2022 - Ain’t No Half Steppin…Heatwave

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Rational Black Thought Episode #72 February 19, 2022 - Pet Negroes and other oddities

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Rational Black Thought Episode #71 Feb 12, 2022 - You need to git up, git out and git something…Outkast

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Rational Black Thought Episode #70 Feb 05, 2022 - No justice, no peace, no hugging racist ass police…BLM protest slogan

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Rational Black Thought Episode #69 Jan 29, 2022 - No matter how hard they try they can't stop us now...Nas

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Rational Black Thought Episode #68 Jan 22, 2022 - You don’t know the Negro…Zora Neale Hurston

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Rational Black Thought Episode #67 Jan 15, 2022: We are the winners, if we unclose our eyes…Zap Mama

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Rational Black Thought Episode #66 January 8, 2022 - You can kill the revolutionary but, you cannot kill the revolution…Fred Hampton

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Rational Black Thought Episode #65 JAN 01, 2021 - Give your life and invariably they leave you with nothing

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Rational Black Thought Episode #64 December 25, 2021 - How it all ends

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Rational Black Thought Episode #63 December 18, 2021 - Unless Black people change their thinking, we will be phased out of existence

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Rational Black Thought Episode #62 DEC, 11, 2021 - The Future Ain't What it Used to Be!

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Rational Black Thought Episode #61 December 4, 2021 - Nobody ever said life would be fair…but goddamn does it have to be this unfair?

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Rational Black Thought Episode #60 November 27, 2021 - Good Things Might Come to Those Who Wait, but not to Those Who Wait Too Late

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Rational Black Thought Episode #59 November 20, 2021 - I'm Woke as Fuck! and coming to Cancel your racist ass!

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Rational Black Thought Episode #58 November 13, 2021 - Can we pull victory from the jaws of defeat?

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Rational Black Thought Episode #57 November 6, 2021 - Three generations of imbeciles are enough!

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Rational Black Thought Episode #56 October 30, 2021 - Reality exist, whether you like it or not!

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Rational Black Thought Episode #55 October 23, 2021 - How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity?

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Rational Black Thought Episode #54 October 16, 2021 - Life is but a Game

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One Year of Rational Black Thought

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Rational Black Thought Episode #53 October 9, 2021 - Life is Real

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Rational Black Thought Episode #52 October 02, 2021 - A Change is Gonna Come

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Rational Black Thought Episode #51 September 25, 2021 - The Inmates are Running the Asylum

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Rational Black Thought Episode #50 September 18, 2021 – Everybody know what dis song's about

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Rational Black Thought Episode #49 September 11, 2021 - 9/11/2001 - No Lessons Learned

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Rational Black Thought Episode #48 September 04, 2021 - I'd Like to Save the World, but can you get Someone Else?

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Rational Black Thought Episode #47 Aug 28, 2021 - Maybe I'm Crazy

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Rational Black Thought Episode #46 August 21, 2021 - What's Going On?

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Rational Black Thought Episode #45 August 14, 2021 - The World is a Dangerous Place for Black People

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Rational Black Thought Episode #44 August 7, 2021 - What is the end game?

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Rational Black Thought Episode #43 July 31, 2021 - Are the Republicans Fascist?

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Rational Black Thought Episode #42 July 24, 2021 - The Lines of Demarcation (there are only two sides))

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Rational Black Thought Episode #41 July 17, 2021 - Burn this bitch down!

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Rational Black Thought Episode #40 July 10, 2021 - The Rules of Engagement (How to Fight and Win)

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Rational Black Thought Episode #39 July 3, 2021 - Cautious Optimism (We might just win)

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Rational Black Thought Episode #38 June 26, 2021 - The Slight Edge Phenomenon (small changes lead to huge results)

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Rational Black Thought Episode #37 June 19, 2021 - I'm tired of rolling with the goddamn punches

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Rational Black Thought Episode Episode #36 - June 12, 2021 – Why the Democrats will always lose to the Republicans

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The Zig Zag Project (six steps to alignment) updated for Black People

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Rational Black Thought Episode #34 May 29, 2021: The Art of War in the Fight for Justice

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Rational Black Thought Episode #33 May 22, 2021 - When our freedom is under attack, what do we do? Stand up, fight back!

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Rational Black Thought Episode #32 May 15, 2021 - The 2022 Midterms: We are all F&$ked

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Rational Black Thought Episode #31 May 8, 2021 - Why misinformation is so prolific in America

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Rational Black Thought Episode #30 May 1, 2021 - How it all ends, the end of civilization as we know it

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Rational Black Thought Episode #29 Apr 24, 2021 - Is there always two sides to a story?

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Rational Black Thought Episode #28 APR 17, 2021 - Inherent bias in law enforcement, does it exist?

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Rational Black Thought Episode #27 April 10, 2021 - What defines success in America?

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Rational Black Thought Episode #26 03-APR-2021 - The history of White Supremacy

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Rational Black Thought Episode #25 Mar 27, 2021 - The 2022 Midterms, what to expect

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Rational Black Thought Episode #24 Mar 20, 2021 - What do I Stand for?

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Rational Black Thought Episode #23 Mar 6, 2021 - What does Christianity Stand for?

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Rational Black Thought Episode #21 Mar 6, 2021 - Why optimism is bad for Black folks

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Rational Black Thought Episode #21 Feb 27, 2021 - Why do the dumbest people think they're smart?

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Rational Black Thought Episode #20 Feb 20, 2021 - What does the Republican Party stand for?

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Rational Black Thought Episode #19 Feb 13, 2021 - How Religion Diminishes Good and Amplifies Evil

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Rational Black Thought Episode #18 Feb 06, 2021 - Weaponized Lies

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Rational Black Thought Episode #17 Jan 30, 2021 - The Big Lie, Part II

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Rational Black Thought Episode # -16 The Big Lie

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Rational Black Thought Episode # 15 16-JAN-2021 We are at an inflection point

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Rational Black Thought Episode # 14 10-JAN-2021: We are living in the fucking Twilight Zone

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Rational Black Thought Episode # 13 2-JAN-2021: If we don't change, nothing changes

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Rational Black Thought Episode # 12 26-DEC-2020 - Past is prologue, what I learned in 2020

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Rational Black Thought Episode # 11 19-DEC-2020: Republicans are trying to overthrow democracy, what do we do?

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Rational Black Thought Episode # 10 12-DEC-2020 If it wasn't so dangerous, it would be funny

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Rational Black Thought Episode # -9 05-DEC-2020: Are you crazy or am I?...it's you

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Rational Black Thought Episode # - 8: 28-NOV-2020: Definitive proof there is/are no god(s)

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Rational Black Thought Episode # 7 21-NOV-2020 Time to get a gun

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Rational Black Thought Episode # 6 14-NOV-2020: 67 Days until we throw the bums out

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Rational Black Thought - Episode #5 07-NOV-2020 The Election is over, now what?

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Rational Black Thought Special Election Episode 04-NOV-2020

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Rational Black Thought Episode # 4 31-OCT-2020 The election, prepare for war

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Rational Black Thought Episode # 3 Take 2: 24-OCT-2020 To hell in a hand basket

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Rational Black Thought Episode # 2 17-OCT-2020: The Systematic Dismantling of Democracy, should Blacks care?

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Rational Black Thought Pre-Episode # -1 Why?

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Rational Black Thought Episode # 1 10-OCT-2020 Trump is a Super-Spreader

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Rational Black Thought Pre-Episode # 0 What?