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Rational Black Thought
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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”Send us Fan Mail Our title today comes from Ay-Shay (an African musician) from her song “The Way I Feel” whose words really struck me this week, some of the other lines from this s…
Episode #263 – January 3, 2026 – “The Year-End Audit: Receipts, Forecasts, and the God-Argument Hustle”Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Rational Black Thought. I’m your host, Neo Griot—secular humanist, skeptic, atheist, Afrocentric, Pan-African… and morally allergic to propaganda. This…
Episode #262 – December 27, 2025 – “Each generation must, out of relative obscurity, discover its mission, fulfill it, or betray it.”Send us Fan Mail Intro: Quote of the Week: Frantz Fanon Unmasking the News: Democracy Watch: When Reality Collapses at the Top: Foreign Policy Watch: “Quarantine” as Empire-Spea…
Episode #261 – December 20, 2025 – Power Without ConscienceSend us Fan Mail Intro: Quote of the Week: James Baldwin Unmasking the News: Democracy Watch: The Chief of Staff as Confessor: When the Mask Slips: When Empathy Dies, Fascism Sm…
Episode #260 – December 13, 2025 – “Random Musing” by Neo GriotSend us Fan Mail The Irrational Resolution of Cognitive Dissonance (Case Study) Brief SetupWhat Was SaidCognitive Dissonance 101How the Somali Republican’s Mind Is Likely WorkingId…
Episode #259 – December 6, 2025Send us Fan Mail Intro: Quote of the Week: Maya Angelou “For Africa to me... is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he…
Episode #258 – November 29, 2025Send us Fan Mail Intro: Quote of the Week: Bell Hooks “...“white supremacy” is a much more useful term for understanding the complicity of people of color in upholding and maintai…
Episode #257 – November 22, 2025 – “In a land of liars, an honest man is always at a disadvantage …”Send us Fan Mail Intro: Quote of the Week: Neo Griot Unmasking the News: When You Pay the Ransom, You Get More Hostages: White supremacy never retired: When Churches Say “No” To…
Episode #256 – November 15, 2025Send us Fan Mail Intro: Quote of the Week: “…equality must be won — by every generation — because it will never be freely granted.” -- Charles M. Blow Unmasking the News: The Cos…
Episode #255 – November 8, 2025 – “If you understand how money can work for and against you, you can make better decisions.”Send us Fan Mail 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…
Episode #254 – November 1, 2025 – “The truth is a double-edged sword…”Send us Fan Mail 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 Lik…
Episode #253 – October 25, 2025 – “It is not unity that we must seek but collective consciousness.”Send us Fan Mail 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 T…
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 Fan Mail 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…
Episode #251 – October 11, 2025 – "…see the through line…"Send us Fan Mail 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 Coll…
Episode #250 – October 4, 2025 – "What a fool believes, he sees. No wise man has, the power, To reason away"Send us Fan Mail 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…
Episode #249 – September 27, 2025 – "If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor"Send us Fan Mail 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: Strate…
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 Fan Mail Intro: Quote of the Week: Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches Unmasking the News: The Roots of Political Violence: Redistricting as a Weapon Agains…
Episode #247 – September 13, 2025 – “My People! My People!”Send us Fan Mail 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 t…
Episode #246 – September 6, 2025 – “The revolution will not be televised…” Gil Scott HeronSend us Fan Mail Intro: Feedback: Quote of the Week: Malcolm X, “Message to the Grassroots.” Strategies for Black Power: Nation-Building the Nation Within a Nation Unmasking th…
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 WilsonSend us Fan Mail Intro: Quote of the Week: Dr. Amos Wilson Strategies for Black Power: Designing the Afrocentric Individual Operating System: Unmasking the News: Democracy Watc…
