Rational Black Thought

✓

ادعا کنید

Send us Fan Mail Killing a Child is Wrong, even if Commanded by God! We killin' them for freedom 'cause they tortured us for boredom. Killer Mike said that, on the Run the Jewels song "Close Your Eyes (And Count to Fuck)." It is a hard line. And it is a specific one. They tortur…

Send us Fan Mail For too long, Black political progress has been measured by access. How many Black politicians hold office. How many Black executives sit in boardrooms. How often our concerns show up on the national agenda. Here is the problem with that measure. Access without leverage is particip…

Send us Fan Mail Intro"And you think your country is a great democracyWell they just killed your priest for helping folks like me And reality will cause your fantasy to die." Black Merda, "Reality"Pause and reflect on that. A country that calls itself a great democracy killed me…

Send us Fan Mail As El-P said on the Killer Mike song, "Walking in the Snow." "You helped to fuel the death machine that down the line will kill you too" And he's not talking about some hidden conspiracy. He's naming something we can verify with our own eyes. Every ins…

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Rational Black Thought, the podcast where we examine politics, religion, culture, and power from a Black, secular, skeptical, and uncompromising perspective. I am your host, the Neo Griot. This week's episode is titled "Racism Is Still Alive, Yellow Tape and Co…

Send us Fan Mail That's Nas. "Black Zombie."He wasn't talking about horror movies. He was talking about us.Walking talking dead. Breathing, but on autopilot. Alive, but not living. Bodies moving through days somebody else designed. And that middle line — "though we think we…

Send us Fan Mail That's BLK ODYSSY — "BLK Revolution." And before we go anywhere else, I want to sit in those two lines, because they name this whole episode. "No longer complacent with surviving." Read that slow. Complacent — with surviving. We got comfortable just making …

Send us Fan Mail Crawling through a systematic maze.And it pains to demise.Pain in our eyes.Strain of drownin', wading into your lies.Degradation so loud that you can't hear the sound of our cries. That's D'Angelo. "The Charade." And it's the title of this episode…

Send us Fan Mail dead prez opens this episode with a line about being imprisoned without necessarily being locked behind bars, and that idea ended up providing the structure for almost everything we're talking about this week because confinement, at its most sophisticated, is not always physic…