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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Episode #240 – July 26, 2025 – “How many leaders you said you needed then left 'em for dead?” Kendrick Lamar Mortal Man 26.07.2025 1:33:24

Send 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 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.shsout...

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 19.07.2025 1:20:42

Send 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 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 a...

Episode #238 – July 12, 2025 - Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now 12.07.2025 1:27:12

Send 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 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...

Episode #237 – July 5, 2025 - Humans will never be able to inhabit a shared reality without three integral things: facts, truth, and trust 05.07.2025 1:20:03

Send us Fan Mail 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 t...

Episode #236 – June 28, 2025 - Faith, Fraud, and Financial Firepower: Black Liberation by Any Means Necessary 28.06.2025 1:22:59

Send us Fan Mail 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 : Co...

Episode #235 – June 21, 2025 – Digital Dominion vs Divine Delusion 21.06.2025 1:16:43

Send us Fan Mail Intro : Feedback : Quote of the Week: Marcus Garvey Strategies for Black Power: The Digital Dominion: Unmasking the News : Update on Democracy: What a Fucking Fool: Pimps and Preachers: Good News Story: Black Tech Triumph: Bible Study with an Atheist : Revelation’s Riddles: Reflections and Call to Action: Outro: Sources: https://www.yesmagazine.org/social-justice/2020/01/2...

Episode #234 – June 14, 2025 – From Resistance to Revolution 14.06.2025 1:34:30

Send us Fan Mail Intro : Feedback : Quote of the Week: Malcolm X Strategies for Black Power: From Resistance to Revolution: Unmasking the News : ICE Out of L.A. & The Latino Trump Paradox: SCOTUS vs. Black Votes: Faith without accountability kills: Good News Story: Black Founder Raises $100M for Online College: Bible Study with an Atheist : A Message to Slaves: Reflections and Call to A...

Episode #233 – June 7, 2025 - From Survival to Supremacy: The Blueprint for Black Power 07.06.2025 1:10:19

Send us Fan Mail Intro : Feedback : Quote of the Week: Malcolm X Strategies for Black Power: Consistent Themes: Unmasking the News : Trump is Dumb as Fuck: Mississippi’s Jim Crow 2.0: Gateway to Hell: Good News Story: Black Entrepreneur Wins $13.4B Contract: Bible Study with an Atheist : This Explains Gaza: Reflections and Call to Action: Closing: Sources: https://www.blackfuturewa....

Episode #232 – May 29, 2025 - "If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else." – Booker T. Washington 30.05.2025 1:43:59

Send us Fan Mail Feedback : Quote of the Week: Booker T. Washington Strategies for Black Power: What we can Learn from Black Philosophy: Unmasking the News : Trump Targets Black Leadership in Military: DOJ Investigates Chicago Hiring Practices: Texas Mandates Ten Commandments in Classrooms: Good News Story: Morehouse Honors Lynched Student: Bible Study with an Atheist : There Will Be Blood...

Episode #231 – May 22, 2025 – "America loves the myth of a meritocracy more than anything else…" — Mikki Kendall 22.05.2025 1:39:16

Send us Fan Mail Quote of the Week: Mikki Kendall Become Strategic or Die: Learn from Everything Part II: Demystifying the Nonsense, they call the News : Racist to the Core: They Not Like Us: The Murder of the First Amendment: Good News: You Don’t Need Millions to Start—Just the Mindset and a Strategy: Bible Study with an Atheist : A Genocidal Myth Dressed in Nonsense: Closing: Sources: ht...

RBT Episode 230 May 15, 2025 - "The most marvelous, unbelievable thing about Black people in America is that they exist." — Ibram X. Kendi 18.05.2025 1:44:56

Send us Fan Mail Become Strategic or Die: Learn from Everything Part I: Demystifying the Nonsense, they call the News : The Cycle, Black Progress, White Backlash: Too Much Like Right: Predators in the Pulpit: Good News: Unleashing Black Genius: Bible Study with an Atheist : The Virgin Birth: A Sacred Lie Dressed in Ancient Superstition: Closing: Power Concedes Nothing Without a Demand......

RBT Episode 229 May 08, 2025 - “There can be no black-white unity until there is first some black unity...” – Malcolm X 08.05.2025 1:44:19

Send us Fan Mail Become Strategic or Die: We Have Always Been at War Part II: Demystifying the Nonsense, they call the News : The Willfully Ignorant: Destruction of a People (Genocide in Gaza): Men Choose God’s Spokesman: Good News: A Rose Growing in a Pile of Shit: Bible Study with an Atheist : Divine Injustice: Closing: Sources: https://www.clereviewofbooks.com/writing/elizabeth-hinton-...

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 03.05.2025 1:24:35

Send us Fan Mail Intro : Become Strategic or Die: We Have Always Been at War: Demystifying the Nonsense, they call the News : To Democrats: Don’t start jerking off before you’re hard: Good News: Still I Rise: Bible Study with an Atheist : How Atheists are Created: Closing: Sources: https://www.blackpast.org/global-african-history/queen-nzinga-1583-1663/#:~:text=In%201626%20Nzinga%20became%2...

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 21.04.2025 1:24:33

Send us Fan Mail Sorry, this is a few days late: Become Strategic or Die: Give Them the Hell They Deserve: Demystifying the Nonsense, they call the News : An Accelerated Collapse of Competence, Character, and Country: Cowards in the Cloakroom: No Redemption: Good News: The Mustard Seed Vision: Bible Study with an Atheist : When I was an idiot, I acted like one: Closing: Power Concedes Noth...

RBT Episode 226 April 12, 2025 - “People should either be caressed or crushed.” – Niccolo Machiavelli 12.04.2025 1:22:00

Send us Fan Mail Become Strategic or Die: Time to Go Machiavellian on they Ass: Demystifying the Nonsense, they call the News : The Destruction of America Project; Status “On Track”: Trump Doesn’t Give AF: Aiding and Abetting: Bible Study with an Atheist : A Guide to Moral Bankruptcy: Closing: White backlash Against Black Success: Sources: https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/p/the-prince/...

RBT Episode 225 April 5, 2025 - “The most powerful people don’t play the game—they control it” – Chase Huges 05.04.2025 1:37:09

Send us Fan Mail Become Strategic or Die: Authoring the Story of Life: Demystifying the Nonsense, they call the News : White House Follies: How Trump's Blunders Are Undermining America: Make American “Whites Only” Again: Too Many Victims to do Anything: Bible Study with an Atheist : Deconstructing Belief: Closing: Building Black Futures, One Campfire at a Time: Sources: https://go.nci.u...

RBT Episode 224 March 22, 2025 - “The essential element of…mental bondage is self-doubt…” – Kwame Agyei 22.03.2025 1:10:58

Send us Fan Mail Become Strategic or Die: The Reality of War: Demystifying the Nonsense, they call the News : MAGA Maggots, Fucking Losers: Chuck’s Folly: Religion, Corruption and Poverty: Bible Study with an Atheist : Myth-Based Non-Reality: Closing: Natural Magic: Sources: Become Strategic: https://www.sankofa.com/blank-2/the-sankofa-movement News: MAGA: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/pol...

RBT Episode 223 March 15, 2025 - “ Financial freedom my only hope, Fuck livin' rich and dyin' broke” Jay Z 15.03.2025 1:11:04

Send us Fan Mail Become Strategic or Die: Political Power in 2026: Demystifying the Nonsense, they call the News : The Circus: Buying America: Irredeemably Corrupt: Bible Study with an Atheist : How to Know you are Saved: Closing: Go Where Your Path Leads You: Sources: https://ballotpedia.org/Main_Page https://www.cbsnews.com/news/transcript-slotkin-democratic-response-trump-2025/ https://apn...

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) 08.03.2025 1:41:57

Send us Fan Mail Become Strategic or Die: Everything is Strategy: Demystifying the Nonsense, they call the News : The Cheapening: Not Held to Account: Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics: Bible Study with an Atheist : Except for Religion: Closing: …Pay me what you Owe Me…: Sources: http://classicinfluence.com/list-of-master-strategists/ https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/what-u-s-lawmakers-a...

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 01.03.2025 1:46:25

Send us Fan Mail Become Strategic or Die: Blueprint for Black Power, an antifragile framework for success Final Release: Demystifying the Nonsense, they call the News : How’s That Working for You?: The rise and fall of Black voices: Repeat Offender: Bible Study with an Atheist : If this is God, I Pass: Closing: Superheroes: Sources: https://www.dallasjustice.org/dr-amos-wilson/part-2/decodin...

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 22.02.2025 1:39:46

Send us Fan Mail Become Strategic or Die: Blueprint for Black Power, an antifragile framework for success Release 5: Demystifying the Nonsense, they call the News : It's Not the Thought that Counts, it’s What the Thought Makes You Do: No Pushback from the Spineless: “_____”, Drugs and Rock and Roll, What is the Missing Word?: Bible Study with an Atheist : They Who Created God: Closing: P...

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 15.02.2025 1:30:32

Send us Fan Mail Become Strategic or Die: Blueprint for Black Power, an antifragile framework for success Release 4: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/211874.Blueprint_for_Black_Power Demystifying the Nonsense, they call the News : Fugue State of Mind: https://sfreporter.com/columns/authoritarian-moves-beg-questions-of-trump-voters/ Elon Musk the Con’s Con: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/...

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 08.02.2025 1:32:39

Send us Fan Mail Become Strategic or Die: Blueprint for Black Power, an antifragile framework for success Release 3: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/211874.Blueprint_for_Black_Power Demystifying the Nonsense, they call News : Are they getting what they deserve?: https://apnews.com/article/israel-hamas-war-gaza-trump-netanyahu-db2c407baf803291a4acf6edfd708c48 Defund the Police – Revisited: ...

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 01.02.2025 1:13:40

Send us Fan Mail Strategy Moment: Blueprint for Black Power, an antifragile framework for success Release 2: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/211874.Blueprint_for_Black_Power News : Chaos is the Point: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/fear-chaos-grip-federal-workers-trump-remakes-government-rcna189746 When They go Low…: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jan/17/figh...

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 25.01.2025 1:04:06

Send us Fan Mail Strategy Moment: Blueprint for Black Power, an antifragile framework for success: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/211874.Blueprint_for_Black_Power News : Promises Kept: https://www.axios.com/2025/01/23/trump-revenge-tour-biden-january6 Fuck Snoop: https://www.whatimreading.net/p/rappers-maga-trump-perform-inauguration-events Co-Conspirators: Bible Study with an Atheist : ...