The Rational Ram

Who are the 5%? Who are the 95%? The late, great radio personality and motivational speaker Earl Nightingale explains: For those in my audience who decided not to view the video first, or just decided that just over 13 minutes of your time is too long to get to the point of this post, I […]

Life is all about the choices we make. First, two videos I want my audience to digest… Systemic racism explained: The myth of systemic racism, as told by black celebrities: I am not going to suggest that racism, systemic or otherwise, does not exist or is not a problem. As outlined in the first video, […]

As a native Texan who hails from the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex, I am very much a fan of Mark Cuban and his Dallas Mavericks NBA franchise. I follow him on both Facebook and Twitter. I not only admire his phenomenal business acumen, but his maverick attitude (no pun intended). All of the above said, I […]

I don’t often defend celebrities and professional athletes. Especially when they make stupid or controversial comments on political or racial matters. However, in this post, I make an exception. New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees made headlines and broke the Internet yesterday when his statement regarding his stance on NFL players kneeling during the playing […]

Rush Limbaugh’s interview yesterday on the black radio program The Breakfast Club was supposed to center on the George Floyd murder (by police), but in typical media fashion the interview degenerated into ideological rhetoric which, in my opinion, obfuscated the entire point of the segment. You can listen to the interview in its entirety below: […]

I’m tired… I’m tired of the same thing the late actor Michael Clarke Duncan’s character “John Coffey” in the film The Green Mile is tired of. People being ugly to each other because of tribalism. That’s right. Tribalism. Racism is borne from tribalism. Ideology (political or otherwise) promotes tribalism. Tribalism erodes decency. Yes, I said […]

Greetings to my readers. I want to make three points in this blog post for conscientious consideration. Before I make my points, I provide a definition of the term “qualified immunity” and a synopsis on how it works. Qualified immunity is a legal doctrine that “protects public officials from being sued for damages unless they […]

Greetings to my readers. Though I open this post with a photo of former Franklin Templeton employee Amy Cooper (and dog choker..er..I mean, walker), this post is not going summarize what she attempted to do to a bird watcher in New York City’s Central Park, one Christian Cooper (no relation to Amy Cooper), who is […]

The quote that open this blog post speaks a fundamental truth we human beings seldom stop to contemplate upon. Men tend to unconsciously seek admiration and women tend to unconsciously admire the real accomplishments of men, whether they are interested in a man romantically or not. The basic truth this quote articulates is that women […]

Greetings to my readers. I am not going to summarize the senseless murder (yes, murder) of George Floyd in this post. As I often say, unless you live under a rock or do not have access to the Internet or a television, you know the story. The links below are for those who may not […]