All Episodes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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