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

2024-06-0148:39

What’s on my Mind: Virtue over Vulgarity:https://alumni.brandeis.edu/news/2024/commencement/transcripts/ken-burns-remarks.html News: Guilty AF: https://apnews.com/article/trump-conviction-what-to-know-a70941a7cd367f7b2aa3218ea91ad922A Better Pope?: https://time.com/6982651/pope-francis-reported-homophobic-slur-gay-priests-seminaries/The limited value of Black lives:https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/texas-pardons-board-process-daniel-perry/Conversations with an Ath...

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

2024-05-2558:17

What’s on my Mind: The most pressing problem in America:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3922050/ News: Heil Hitler…Trump: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/23/trumps-unified-reich-video-was-a-message-not-a-mistakeThe opposite of Just: https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-flag-stop-steal-alito-trump-1842c40b833637c981c59c3f39bc4669Church Tactics:https://www.christianpost.com/news/pastor-charged-with-obstructing-doj-investigation-of-...

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

2024-05-1852:34

What’s on my Mind: Poisoning of the Mind:https://huridocs.org/2023/12/the-harmful-effects-of-disinformation-and-how-to-combat-them/ News: “…except as a punishment for crime…” https://apnews.com/article/prison-to-plate-inmate-labor-investigation-injuries-deaths-0ff52ff1735d7e9f858248177a2a60c3“Patriot” Sent to Prison: https://www.politico.com/news/2024/05/17/conservative-activist-son-sentenced-capitol-attack-leo-brent-bozell-iv-00158750“…bleach blond bad built butch body…”:...

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

2024-05-1101:06:39

What’s on my Mind: One Party, One Cult:https://twitter.com/NormOrnstein/status/1786864512718475633 https://dk.usembassy.gov/usa-i-skolen/presidential-elections-and-the-american-political-system/#:~:text=The%20Two%2DParty%20System%20and%20the%20Two%20Major%20Parties,Party%20and%20the%20Democratic%20Party.https://www.npr.org/2024/05/01/1248249250/election-poll-trump-biden-votersNews: Just-Fucking-Us: https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/09/us/roger-forston-florida-airman-shot/index....

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

2024-05-0401:02:15

What’s on my Mind: Going with the Flow:https://positivepsychology.com/mihaly-csikszentmihalyi-father-of-flow/#:~:text=In%20Csikszentmihalyi%27s%20words%2C%20flow%20is,doing%20it%E2%80%9D%20(1990). https://iaap.org/jung-analytical-psychology/short-articles-on-analytical-psychology/synchronicity-an-acausal-connecting-principle/https://www.healthguidance.org/entry/18556/1/what-is-serendipity-and-why-is-it-so-important.htmlNews: How I became Antisemitic: https://www.cbsnews.c...

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

2024-04-2701:12:53

What’s on my Mind: Uninformed Citizenry: https://aeon.co/ideas/the-right-to-vote-should-be-restricted-to-those-with-knowledgehttps://www.sparknotes.com/us-government-and-politics/political-science/politics-and-political-science/summary/News:Democracy on Trial: https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2024/04/18/trump-hush-money-criminal-trial/gag-order-redux-00153015https://www.msnbc.com/deadline-white-house/deadline-legal-blog/trump-hush-money-trial-witness-testimony-takeaways-rcna149...

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

2024-04-2001:07:27

What’s on my Mind: Living Outside the Box:https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/chaotic-cognition/202006/the-truth-about-the-box-in-outside-the-box-thinking News: The Boy who Cried Wolf: https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2024/04/18/trump-hush-money-criminal-trial/gag-order-redux-00153015https://www.thedailybeast.com/details-of-how-trump-scored-dollar175m-bond-revealed-in-court-filingshttps://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/trump-hush-money-trial-04-18-24/h_765e8b1de153c160...

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

2024-04-1341:29

What’s on my Mind: How and Why We Lose:https://www.270towin.com/ News: Theirs is not to reason why, theirs is but to do and die: https://www.politico.com/news/2024/04/11/trump-tightens-stranglehold-on-congressional-gop-00151629https://www.friendlyatheist.com/p/arizona-gop-lawmaker-lashes-out-atConversations with an Atheist: thou shalt save alive nothing that breatheth:https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/trump-evangelical-supporters-political-violence-poll-rcna1220...

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

2024-04-0601:00:13

What’s on my Mind: By their fruits…:https://books.google.com/books/about/Be_You.html?id=my1GEAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=kp_read_button&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0#v=onepage&q&f=false News:There Aren’t Two Sides to the Facts: https://www.cleveland.com/news/2024/03/our-trump-reporting-upsets-some-readers-but-there-arent-two-sides-to-facts-letter-from-the-editor.htmlhttps://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/reidout-blog/trump-sick-immigrants-musk-pseudosci...

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

2024-03-3001:11:41

What’s on my Mind: Existence Beyond Time:https://www.space.com/time-how-it-works News: The Last Congress: https://www.ft.com/content/86ee5942-2ff5-47a6-a509-b74b854b0477https://www.marylandmatters.org/2024/03/20/a-deeply-divided-congress-took-no-major-action-on-civil-rights-in-2023-report-finds/https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2024/03/22/congress/gallagher-leaving-early-00148586https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/georgia-republican-official-and-outspoken-election-denie...

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

2024-03-2356:51

What’s on my Mind: The weaponization of colorblindness: News: Like Lemmings to the Sea: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/2/11/2222787/-A-tidal-wave-of-stupidhttps://thehill.com/homenews/house/4545008-parnas-calls-out-gop-rep-hearing-doing-bidding-russia/https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/20/us/california-pastor-arrested.htmlhttps://www.newsweek.com/its-time-label-no-labels-vote-trump-opinion-1881492Conversations with an Atheist: On the Road to Nowhere:https://www.learnreligio...

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

2024-03-1601:09:21

What’s on my Mind: Zombies vs. Humans:https://secularhumanism.org/what-is-secular-humanism/ https://cdn.centerforinquiry.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2002/10/22160056/p35.pdfNews: Round Two: Joe vs. The Shit Show – Democracy's 2nd Last Stand!https://www.politico.com/news/2024/03/13/never-trumpers-gop-2024-elections-00146726Conversations with an Atheist: Heaven and Hell Explorations of the Afterlife:https://www.encyclopedia.com/science/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-...

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

2024-03-0956:57

What’s on my Mind: Master Manipulator:https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/02/snl-donald-trump-republican-bootlickers/ News:They all float down here. You’ll float too: https://www.cbsnews.com/live-updates/super-tuesday-2024-coverage/https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/06/nikki-haley-drops-outhttps://apnews.com/article/state-of-union-biden-gaza-ukraine-israel-1a42ff9d4ef3e0f2753e43ac8d39fc18https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/08/katie-britt-sotu-reactionConvers...

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

2024-03-0201:10:16

What’s on my Mind: Project Autocracy:https://globalextremism.org/project-2025-the-far-right-playbook-for-american-authoritarianism/?gad_source=1&gclid=CjwKCAiAivGuBhBEEiwAWiFmYfquX2cMaOcVIwikRLPkQqTvRx31J8eJEXxMq0ZDHWI8UpsIxqtDEBoC-PwQAvD_BwE News: Black Rats: https://apnews.com/article/trump-black-conservative-south-carolina-primary-aa1155c31bfc3b397a32b33eff04ada8https://thehill.com/opinion/columnists/juan-williams/4337579-dont-be-duped-by-trumps-claims-to-black-support/h...

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

2024-02-2401:02:53

What’s on my Mind: America without democracy:https://www.dw.com/en/as-autocrats-ascend-gloomy-data-on-democracies-decline/a-62674756 https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/opinion/columnists/iowa-view/2022/01/09/what-authoritarianism-would-look-like-america/9088584002/News: Rats f*cking Suckers: https://www.factcheck.org/2019/03/dossier-not-what-started-all-of-this/https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a46883184/fbi-informant-alexander-smirnov-biden-false-claims-russi...

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

2024-02-1751:59

What’s on my Mind: The end of evolution: News: It’s the culture stupid:https://thehill.com/opinion/4445662-for-maga-its-the-culture-stupid/ Conversations with an Atheist: Undeniable correlation:https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-secular-life/201411/why-education-corrodes-religious-faithClosing: Black pays: https://www.blackenterprise.com/hbcus-highest-financial-payoffs-for-black-graduates/Feedback: Marcia: I talk to people everywhere I go and ask them to vote bu...

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

2024-02-1001:00:13

What’s on my Mind: Identify your Life Center:https://blog.hubspot.com/sales/habits-of-highly-effective-people-summary News: What kind of people are we: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/the-ruin-that-a-trump-presidency-would-mean/ar-AA1n4HqHhttps://www.politico.com/newsletters/west-wing-playbook/2024/02/01/what-biden-really-says-about-trump-behind-closed-doors-00139178https://apnews.com/article/biden-hur-garland-classified-documents-836b99fe9cbef9ba7d32602f4928efechttps:/...

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

2024-02-0349:56

Philosophy: Philosophy is Life - Esthetics:http://www.importanceofphilosophy.com/FiveBranchesMain.html News: All I do is win, win, win no matter what…: https://thehill.com/opinion/4330273-donald-trump-is-the-biggest-loser-in-american-politics/https://www.axios.com/2023/04/07/trump-gop-epic-losing-streakhttps://www.forbes.com/sites/saradorn/2023/11/08/how-tuesdays-election-was-a-rebuke-of-trump-extending-his-losing-streak/?sh=385e46f5501ehttps://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/23/us/col...

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

2024-01-2756:53

Philosophy: Philosophy is Life - Politics:http://www.importanceofphilosophy.com/FiveBranchesMain.html News: Normal Abnormality: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/5050/2024-us-presidential-election-donald-trump-nikki-haley-new-hampshire-republican-primaries-normal/https://www.thedailybeast.com/listen-closely-trump-wants-to-be-a-messiah-figure-for-evangelicals?ref=scrollConversations with an Atheist: Stay in your lane:https://www.freedomforum.org/the-establishment-clause/Clo...

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

2024-01-2001:05:38

Philosophy: Philosophy is Life - Ethics:http://www.importanceofphilosophy.com/FiveBranchesMain.html News: We just hit rock bottom: https://www.politico.com/news/2024/01/10/michigan-florida-nevada-gop-chairs-00134756https://www.adirondackdailyenterprise.com/opinion/guest-commentary/2024/01/trump-is-destroying-the-gop-will-he-destroy-america/Conversations with an Atheist: Is god evil:https://alevelphilosophyandreligion.com/ocr-religious-studies/ocr-philosophy/the-problem-of...

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