Michael

Rational Black Thought

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A discussion of all topics as seen through the eyes of a Black Atheist, Skeptic, Humanist, Existentialist

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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 30.04.2022 1:37:41

Send us Fan Mail What’s on my mind: The normalization of hate: https://www.counterextremism.com/content/extreme-left-groups-united-states , https://verdict.justia.com/2019/04/04/if-these-ideas-are-too-far-left-why-are-they-so-popular News: Internal memo reveals the GOPs insidious tactics: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/21/us/jim-jordan-republicans-memo-immigration.html The politics of COVID: ...

Rational Black Thought Episode # 81 April 23, 2022 - There are no alternative facts 23.04.2022 1:26:05

Send us Fan Mail What’s on my mind: The universal death of rational thought: News: Book Banning Efforts Surged in 2021: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/04/books/banned-books-libraries.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage&section=Education A Christian ‘health insurance’ ministry left families with millions in unpaid bills: https://onlysky.media/hemant-mehta/a-christian-health...

Rational Black Thought Episode #80 April 16, 2022 - Deeds Not Words...Max Roach 16.04.2022 1:19:07

Send us Fan Mail What’s on my mind: Democrats can’t fuck this up: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/08/us/politics/ketanji-brown-jackson-black-voters.html News: Text from Trump son is said to plan overturning election: https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/08/politics/donald-trump-jr-meadows-text/index.html This is Justice in America: https://www.npr.org/2022/04/08/1091769554/2-found-not-guilty-in-michigan...

Rational Black Thought Episode #79 APR 09, 2022 - “…we are not nonviolent with anyone who is violent with us.” – Malcom X 09.04.2022 1:13:59

Send us Fan Mail Feedback: What’s on my mind: Who’s my audience for RBT and what do I want them to do? News: Jackson Confirmed: https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/04/07/us/ketanji-brown-jackson-vote-scotus No justice for Amir Locke: https://www.thecut.com/2022/04/a-no-knock-warrant-led-to-the-police-shooting-of-amir-locke.html If you are white, you are presumed innocent, even after you are prove...

Rational Black Thought Episode #78 April 02, 2021 - If you don't change language, you can't change the way people think 02.04.2022 1:32:12

Send us Fan Mail Feedback: What’s on my mind: A Systems Analytic Explanation for the Shitshow we Live in: https://www.agile42.com/en/blog/cynefin-framework#:~:text=The%203%20basic%20types%20of,%3B%20ordered%2C%20complex%20and%20chaotic. , https://www.agile42.com/en/blog/cynefin-framework#:~:text=The%203%20basic%20types%20of,%3B%20ordered%2C%20complex%20and%20chaotic. News: Gini Thomas’ push to...

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 26.03.2022 1:17:50

Send us Fan Mail Feedback: What’s on my mind: Allow me to Retort…: https://www.amazon.com/Allow-Me-Retort-Black-Constitution/dp/1620976811 News: The GOP Staged a Racist Shit Show at Ketanji Brown Jackson’s SCOTUS Hearings: https://www.thedailybeast.com/gops-racist-clown-show-at-supreme-court-nominee-ketanji-brown-jacksons-confirmation-hearings Here’s what you get when racism and religion fuck a...

Rational Black Thought Episode #76 March 19, 2022 - The Centre Cannot Hold...Yeats 19.03.2022 1:21:28

Send us Fan Mail Feedback: What’s on my mind: The Centre cannot hold …: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43290/the-second-coming News: Is God causing the war in Ukraine: https://www.bradenton.com/news/nation-world/national/article259276904.html If evolution is real, why we still got Herschel Walker: https://onlysky.media/hemant-mehta/herschel-walker-denies-evolution-why-are-there-still-a...

Rational Black Thought Episode #75 March 12, 2022 - Don't push me cause I'm close to the edge...Grandmaster Flash 12.03.2022 1:29:44

Send us Fan Mail What’s on my mind: Don’t push me cause I’ close to the edge…: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5d824da4727dfb5bd9e59d0c/t/615c7ae7c1b58c7f92fb2ce1/1633450730356/Black+Nonreligious+Americans+-+A+Brief+from+the+U.S.+Secular+Survey.pdf News: The Ukraine Crisis and Anti-Blackness In Immigration: https://newsone.com/4301129/ukrainian-refugee-crisis-spotlights-anti-blackness-im...

Rational Black Thought Episode #74 March 5, 2022 - Everyone has a plan, until they get punched in the mouth…Mike Tyson 05.03.2022 1:22:51

Send us Fan Mail Feedback: What’s on my mind: Everyone has a plan, until they get punched in the mouth: News: MTG spoke at a white supremist conference, but claims she didn’t know where she was: https://newsone.com/4297890/marjorie-taylor-greene-gop-problem/ Capitol rioter awaiting sentencing dies by suicide…good riddance: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/capitol-rioter-awaiting-sentencing-...

Rational Black Thought Episode #73 Feb 26, 2022 - Ain’t No Half Steppin…Heatwave 26.02.2022 1:16:52

Send us Fan Mail What’s on my mind: A Black atheist prophecy: News: A jury finds Ahmaud Arbery's 3 killers guilty of federal hate crimes: https://www.npr.org/2022/02/22/1082225480/ahmaud-arbery-hate-crimes The Republicans are Racist, and If You Still Support them, So Are You: https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-is-a-racist-if-you-still-support-him-so-are-you Pastor arrested for raping kids...

Rational Black Thought Episode #72 February 19, 2022 - Pet Negroes and other oddities 19.02.2022 1:07:25

Send us Fan Mail What’s on my mind: In plain sight, the quite part out loud: https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/04/republicans-america-first-caucus News: Racist slurs, violent messages: How Arbery’s killers talked about Black people: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/racist-slurs-violent-messages-how-arbery-s-killers-talked-about-black-people/ar-AATWzb9?ocid=msedgntp Dear Democrats: Start treati...

Rational Black Thought Episode #71 Feb 12, 2022 - You need to git up, git out and git something…Outkast 12.02.2022 1:21:50

Send us Fan Mail What’s on my mind: This shit is not sustainable: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/04/us/politics/republicans-jan-6-cheney-censure.html and https://www.thenation.com/article/society/supreme-court-alabama-voting/ News: Kentucky pastor charged with sex crimes involving minor: https://www.whas11.com/article/news/kentucky/kentucky-pastor-thomas-wall-child-sex-crimes/417-646bed51-0a7e...

Rational Black Thought Episode #70 Feb 05, 2022 - No justice, no peace, no hugging racist ass police…BLM protest slogan 05.02.2022 1:14:20

Send us Fan Mail What’s on my mind: I t’s worse than I thought: https://orientalreview.org/2022/01/29/the-1994-rwandan-genocide-and-the-united-states-i/ News: Trump Really, Really Wanted the Government to Seize Voting Machines: https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-pushed-government-seize-voting-machines-1293232/ Cops suspended over mishandling of the deaths of two Black wome...

Rational Black Thought Episode #69 Jan 29, 2022 - No matter how hard they try they can't stop us now...Nas 29.01.2022 1:25:33

Send us Fan Mail What’s on my mind: Motivated Blindness, an answer to the question, why are people so dumb: https://www.stevebizblog.com/the-truth-about-how-motivated-blindness-affects-business-decisions/#:~:text=Motivated%20blindness%20is%20a%20type%20of%20confirmation%20bias,blindness%20for%20a%20small%20business%20involves%20money-related%20issues. , https://www.apa.org/monitor/2012/12/elc-pi...

Rational Black Thought Episode #68 Jan 22, 2022 - You don’t know the Negro…Zora Neale Hurston 22.01.2022 1:19:09

Send us Fan Mail What’s on my mind: How to stop the Dem’s plan to lose the House and the Senate this year: https://nypost.com/2022/01/19/joe-biden-gets-f-grade-from-37-of-americans-poll-shows/ , https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/meet-the-press/poll-numbers-are-pointing-midterm-shellacking-democrats-n1287624 News: The prayer timeline for Jan 6: https://religionnews.com/2022/01/06/jan-6-a-timeline...

Rational Black Thought Episode #67 Jan 15, 2022: We are the winners, if we unclose our eyes…Zap Mama 15.01.2022 2:06:10

Send us Fan Mail Sorry for the long episode this week, I had a lot to say. In the future, if I have too much content in a given week, I will cut out content and save it for a subsequent week. If you have comments, that my podcast is too long, that my points are incoherent or wrong, please send a message to Feedback@RationalBlackThought.com What’s on my mind: How to get shit done: https://gettingth...

Rational Black Thought Episode #66 January 8, 2022 - You can kill the revolutionary but, you cannot kill the revolution…Fred Hampton 08.01.2022 1:35:41

Send us Fan Mail Feedback: Conversation with Kenneth: https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/science.abb7498 What’s on my mind: When our democracy falls, who will be to blame? https://www.ft.com/content/85ff09bc-eb08-4d99-b7d5-57e07b191dd1 News: Breaking News: New wave of Jan. 6 conspiracy theories: https://www.axios.com/january-6-capitol-conspiracy-theories-conservative-social-media-f216bf07-6f...

Rational Black Thought Episode #65 JAN 01, 2021 - Give your life and invariably they leave you with nothing 01.01.2022 1:24:37

Send us Fan Mail What’s on my mind: People have crossed over to the Twilight Zone: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/09/technology/birds-arent-real-gen-z-misinformation.html News: Court rules New York Times can temporarily keep Project Veritas documents: https://www.politico.com/news/2021/12/28/appeals-court-says-new-york-times-can-temporarily-keep-project-veritas-documents-526229 Florida Youth Pa...

Rational Black Thought Episode #64 December 25, 2021 - How it all ends 25.12.2021 1:33:39

Send us Fan Mail What’s on my mind: How it all ends: https://www.ucsusa.org/nuclear-weapons/worldwide , https://www.cgdev.org/blog/the-next-pandemic-could-come-soon-and-be-deadlier , https://www.nature.org/en-us/what-we-do/our-priorities/tackle-climate-change/climate-change-stories/climate-change-frequently-asked-questions/ News: Joe Manchin goes on Fox News to tell the Democrats to go Fuck the...

Rational Black Thought Episode #63 December 18, 2021 - Unless Black people change their thinking, we will be phased out of existence 18.12.2021 1:36:18

Send us Fan Mail What’s on my mind: Increasing our Return on Failure: https://www.luxoft-training.com/news/agile-life-planning-managing-personal-goals-with-agile/ , https://www.collectivecampus.io/blog/how-to-optimise-your-return-on-failure-rof News: Meadows and the Band of Loyalists: How They Fought to Keep Trump in Power: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/15/us/politics/trump-meadows-republican...

Rational Black Thought Episode #62 DEC, 11, 2021 - The Future Ain't What it Used to Be! 11.12.2021 1:30:52

Send us Fan Mail What’s on my mind: How to Correct Cognitive Distortions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_distortion , https://positivepsychology.com/cbt-cognitive-restructuring-cognitive-distortions/ News: Biden treated worse than Trump by the media: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/12/03/biden-media-coverage-worse-trump-favorable/ Democrats shoot themselves in their own dick:...

Rational Black Thought Episode #61 December 4, 2021 - Nobody ever said life would be fair…but goddamn does it have to be this unfair? 04.12.2021 1:21:21

Send us Fan Mail What’s on my mind: Modern Monetary Theory and Build Back Better: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/f/fiatmoney.asp , https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-economist-who-believes-the-government-should-just-print-more-money News: Supreme Court Appears Poised to Overturn Roe v. Wade: https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/12/01/us/abortion-mississippi-supreme-court Trump Tested...

Rational Black Thought Episode #60 November 27, 2021 - Good Things Might Come to Those Who Wait, but not to Those Who Wait Too Late 27.11.2021 1:20:35

Send us Fan Mail What’s on my mind: The Bad Guys are winning: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/12/the-autocrats-are-winning/620526/ News: All three defendants found guilty of the murder of Ahmaud Abery: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/jury-reaches-verdict-in-ahmaud-arbery-death-case-all-found-guilty-of-murder/ar-AAR5IpG?ocid=msedgntp Convicted sex offender working as Birmin...

Rational Black Thought Episode #59 November 20, 2021 - I'm Woke as Fuck! and coming to Cancel your racist ass! 20.11.2021 1:16:19

Send us Fan Mail What’s on my mind: The war on Blackness: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/11/08/wake-up-these-woke-distortions/ , https://www.epi.org/blog/the-racist-campaign-against-critical-race-theory-threatens-democracy-and-economic-transformation/ News: Build ‘BLACK’ Better Agenda: https://aframnews.com/build-black-better-agenda/ McCarthy isn't the only Republican who&apo...

Rational Black Thought Episode #58 November 13, 2021 - Can we pull victory from the jaws of defeat? 13.11.2021 1:05:08

Send us Fan Mail What’s on my mind: I’m sorry, I lied, we have already lost: News: After talking about Dr. Suess, and Mr. Potato Head the GOP is now attacking Big Bird: https://www.npr.org/2021/11/08/1053548074/big-bird-covid-19-vaccine-conservative-backlash-ted-cruz Photos of Mike Pence in Hiding on Jan. 6: https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/journalist-describes-wild-unpublished-photos-1541491...