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Rational Black Thought
Michael
260 episodes
2 days ago
Send us a text 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 Bishop, the Missing Money, and the Machine That Protected It: Good News: When One Door Closes, We Build a Corridor: Strategies for Black Power: PowerNomics, Rewired: Reflections and Call to Action: Closing/Outro: Power Concedes Nothing without a Demand...
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Send us a text 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 Bishop, the Missing Money, and the Machine That Protected It: Good News: When One Door Closes, We Build a Corridor: Strategies for Black Power: PowerNomics, Rewired: Reflections and Call to Action: Closing/Outro: Power Concedes Nothing without a Demand...
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Rational Black Thought
Episode #255 – November 8, 2025 – “If you understand how money can work for and against you, you can make better decisions.”
Send us a text 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 Bishop, the Missing Money, and the Machine That Protected It: Good News: When One Door Closes, We Build a Corridor: Strategies for Black Power: PowerNomics, Rewired: Reflections and Call to Action: Closing/Outro: Power Concedes Nothing without a Demand...
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2 days ago
1 hour 28 minutes

Rational Black Thought
Episode #254 – November 1, 2025 – “The truth is a double-edged sword…”
Send us a text 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 Like a Plea Deal: Good News: When We Amplify Those Less Fortunate, We All Rise: Bible Study with an Atheist: When the Law Became a Sales Pitch Reflections and Call to Action: Closing/Outro: Sources: https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/trump-once-again-threatens-unlawful-third...
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1 week ago
1 hour 15 minutes

Rational Black Thought
Episode #253 – October 25, 2025 – “It is not unity that we must seek but collective consciousness.”
Send us a text 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 Themselves: When the War on Drugs Transitions from the “War on Soul Brothers” to Dear Leader’s War:The Rot Behind the Robes: Good News: Building Our Tomorrow: Black Entrepreneurship in Action: Strategies for Black Power: Afrocentricity + Pan-Africanism — The Synergy That Makes Liberation: Permanent ...
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2 weeks ago
1 hour 6 minutes

Rational Black Thought
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 a text 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 Blueprint for Black Futures: Bible Study with an Atheist: The Man-Made Evolution of Christianity: Reflections and Call to Action: Outro: Sources: https://apnews.com/article/poll-government-shutdown-blame-trump-republicans-democrats-12c01432bbb43746b6d8d32390c959f4http...
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3 weeks ago
1 hour 9 minutes

Rational Black Thought
Episode #251 – October 11, 2025 – "…see the through line…"
Send us a text 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 Collapse: How “Divine Calling” Becomes Cover for Grift: Good News: When Allies Show Up, Black Power Grows: Strategies for Black Power: From Abolition to Authoritarianism: Reflections and Call to Action: Closing/Outro: Sources: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0m_3uvFtxkQhttps://www.yahoo.com/...
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1 month ago
1 hour 26 minutes

Rational Black Thought
Episode #250 – October 4, 2025 – "What a fool believes, he sees. No wise man has, the power, To reason away"
Send us a text 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 News: Black Excellence, No Apologies: Bible Study with an Atheist: What Goes to Heaven: Reflections and Call to Action: Outro: Sources: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/01/anthony-kennedy-supreme-court-democracy?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4KLoPehdQchttps://abc13.com/post/mo...
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1 month ago
1 hour 12 minutes

Rational Black Thought
Episode #249 – September 27, 2025 – "If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor"
Send us a text 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: Strategies for Black Power: Fighting Laundered Extremism: Reflections and Call to Action: Outro: Sources: https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/trump-doj-fbi-director-james-comey-indictment/https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/sep/25/trump-rebrand-one-big-beautiful-bill-acthttp...
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1 month ago
1 hour 3 minutes

Rational Black Thought
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 a text Intro: Quote of the Week: Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches Unmasking the News: The Roots of Political Violence: Redistricting as a Weapon Against Black and Brown Power: The Moral Bankruptcy of Religious Excuses: Black Innovation Turning Waste into Power: Bible Study with an Atheist: Anti-Black Theology and a Post-Jesus Gospel: Reflections and Call to Action: Outro: Sources: https://rhinehartibenglish.weebly.com/uploads/2/2...
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1 month ago
1 hour 8 minutes

Rational Black Thought
Episode #247 – September 13, 2025 – “My People! My People!”
Send us a text 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 the Week: Zora Neale Hurston, “Dust Tracks on a Road” Unmasking the News: The Roberts Court as a Political Actor: The rot is inside the house: When the “sanctuary” is the crime scene: Building profit with purpose: Strategies for Black Power: Black Unity not Uniformity Reflections a...
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1 month ago
1 hour 12 minutes

Rational Black Thought
Episode #246 – September 6, 2025 – “The revolution will not be televised…” Gil Scott Heron
Send us a text 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 for Us: Who is winning the Game: All in the Family: Not a Sacrifice, a Strategy: Bible Study with an Atheist: Heaven Can Wait: Reflections and Call to Action: Outro: Sources: https://teachingamericanhistory.org/document/message-to-grassroots/https://ww...
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2 months ago
1 hour 51 minutes

Rational Black Thought
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
Send us a text 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 Washington: Poll Rage Isn’t the Story. The Story Is Personal Rule with a Soft Floor: Holy Rackets, SECULAR TRUTH: A 6-Year-Old’s Grind Meets Shaq-Sized Generosity: Bible Study with an Atheist: Two People, Six Days, and 6,000 Years?: Reflections and Call to Action: Ou...
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2 months ago
1 hour 20 minutes

Rational Black Thought
Episode #244 – August 23, 2025 – It’s bigger than black and white, It's a problem with the whole way of life...” Lil Baby
Send us a text 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 Finally Drop the High Road. Good: It’s Not Christian Hypocrisy. It’s the Bible: Black-Led Wellness as Power: Bible Study with an Atheist: One God, Many Gods, and a Three-Person Contradiction: Reflections and Call to Action: Outro: Sources: https://www.reuters....
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2 months ago
1 hour 53 minutes

Rational Black Thought
Episode #243 – August 16, 2025 – “American hypocrisy, oh, let me count the ways ...” J. Cole
Send us a text 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 they Balk: A Criminal, back in the Pulpit: Good News: Young, Gifted, and Black: Bible Study with an Atheist: Epicurus Reloaded: Reflections and Call to Action: Outro: Sources: https://jis.gov.jm/information/heroes/nanny-of-the-maroons/https://www.politico.com/ne...
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2 months ago
1 hour 18 minutes

Rational Black Thought
Episode #242 – August 9, 2025 – “N*****s Are Scared of Revolution” Last Poets
Send us a text 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 Playbook in Action: From Reagan to Ruin – The GOP's Fall into Authoritarianism: Another "Family-Values" Fraud Exposed: Good News: Operation HOPE: Bible Study with an Atheist: Resurrection: The Biblical Walking Dead: Reflections and Call to Action: Closing/Outr...
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3 months ago
1 hour 25 minutes

Rational Black Thought
Episode #241 – August 2, 2025 – “Racisim's still alive, they just be concealin' it”
Send us a text 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 Disguised as Justice: Good News: Seeds of Rebellion: Bible Study with an Atheist: The Problem of Evil Revisited: Reflections and Call to Action: Outro: Sources: https://newafrikan77.wordpress.com/2017/07/20/quotations-of-fanon-frantz-fanon-decolonize/https://critic...
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3 months ago
1 hour 19 minutes

Rational Black Thought
Episode #240 – July 26, 2025 – “How many leaders you said you needed then left 'em for dead?” Kendrick Lamar Mortal Man
Send us a text 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: Hunter Biden is mostly right: Twisted Logic: Good News: Redemption and Hope: Bible Study with an Atheist: Absence of Soul: Reflections and Call to Action: Outro: Sources: https://www.shsoutherner.net/blogs/73daysletters/2016/12/10/your-silence-will-not-protect-yo...
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3 months ago
1 hour 33 minutes

Rational Black Thought
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 Extinguish: Stacy Abrams is Right: The Moral Bankruptcy of Organized Faith: Good News: How to Support Black-Owned Business: Bible Study with an Atheist: The Fallacy of Faith: Reflections and Call to Action: Outro: Sources: https://learn.nrm.org/media/1249/malcolm-x-speech-to-pea...
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3 months ago
1 hour 20 minutes

Rational Black Thought
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 play book: Sacred Lies: Good News Story: Baking in Success: Bible Study with an Atheist: Idiotic Cosmology: Reflections and Call to Action: Outro: Sources: https://spectrumlocalnews.com/nys/buffalo/politics/2025/07/09/trump-brennan-comey-justice-department-investigations-cia-f...
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4 months ago
1 hour 27 minutes

Rational Black Thought
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 Death Bill: Déjà Vu All Over Again: Will it Ever End?: Good News Story: Ujima (Collective Work and Responsibility): Bible Study with an Atheist: Convoluted Chronology: Reflections and Call to Action: Outro: Sources: https://thetyee.ca/Culture/2025/01/24/Are-We-Headed-Ruin-Ano...
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4 months ago
1 hour 20 minutes

Rational Black Thought
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: Trump's Assault on Democracy: A Critical Analysis of Systemic Erosion: GOP Grift Exposed: The Christian Assassin: Good News Story: We Own Our Future: Bible Study with an Atheist: Contradictions and Immorality in the Bible: Reflections and Call to Action: Outro: Sources: h...
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4 months ago
1 hour 22 minutes

Rational Black Thought
Send us a text 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 Bishop, the Missing Money, and the Machine That Protected It: Good News: When One Door Closes, We Build a Corridor: Strategies for Black Power: PowerNomics, Rewired: Reflections and Call to Action: Closing/Outro: Power Concedes Nothing without a Demand...