Welcome to another episode of Lurie Breaks It Down, a podcast where we dig deeply to connect the dots on the issues that shape our world.

I'm Lurie Daniel Favors, author, activist, attorney, and the host of the Lurie Daniel Favors show on Sirius XM's Urban View, Channel 126. If you like what you're about to hear, go ahead and give us five stars and then tell everybody that you know. And if you don't like it, just, child, keep it to yourself and pray our strength. Okay, thank you so much. Also, don't forget to check out my YouTube page, Lurie Daniel Favor's Media, where you should subscribe, like, and share, because then you'll get notified when I post videos from my show, which I do just about every single day and when I go live with my YouTube audience. Every so often, we get reminded why people who benefit from white nationalism don't like

actual history. And I talk about this a lot. So it shouldn't be a surprise to anyone that this is

sort of my shtick. It's my thing. But thinking about the way that white nationalists and white

racist terrorists really work to hide history, to hide from history and to hide history from those who might be able

to use it to shift what's happening in their current reality, let alone change the direction

of their future. That's something that white nationalist races do really well. And when we're talking

about things that happen to black people in this country, a lot of times we frame those things

as, well, black history. But I've struggled

with this a little bit because I don't think black history, number one, black history doesn't start

on slave ships, right? Shout out to John Henry Clark, who reminded us that when your history

begins on a slave ship, everything that happens after the slave ship is an improvement. When your

history begins with the founding of humanity, millennia upon millennia beforehand,

well, then what happened on a slave ship is more a bump in the road.

It's a momentary, temporary, dark ages that we might find ourselves thrust into,

but it is certainly not our origin story, nor will it be our final destination.

But when it comes to thinking about history, some of the most awful components

of history in this country are shaped and framed as the history of the group that survived the awful

thing. And rarely do we talk about history from the frame of the people who are doing the awful thing.

In fact, the doers of the awful thing, especially when those doers are white people,

tend to, they almost take a secondary, dare I say, tertiary positioning in terms of who we pay attention to. And so I like to reframe a lot of what happened that is currently considered

black history as a moment in white history. Now, black history for me, that's all the amazing

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