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. All right, so let's get into it. Today is Friday, September the 19th, and we got a lot

to cover, but not necessarily by way of news in terms of news you can use facts and things that

are related to what's happening right now. I really want to talk today about consequences,

right? Consequences, the notion of cause and effect and consequences, and I know it seems weird to have a title like what do Jay-Z, Beyonce, Bad Bunny, Candice Owens, and Maladoma So May have in common. And what they have in common is consequences. And I want to start by sharing four short stories about consequences and community. Now, before I do, however, I just want to sort of make sure that we are on the same page

about concepts that are going to really be central to this conversation.

And the main concept we're going to talk about today is cause and effect.

All right, cause and effect.

So cause and effect is basically a relationship, which we all should generally know.

I just want to provide a definition.

But it's a relationship between events where a cause or an action creates a result and effect and in

many cases your effects or your results can happen from many causes sometimes

the nature of the relationship between the actions that preceded it and the

effects that happened as a result of those actions can be exact and you can see it clearly.

Sometimes it's a little more elusive, but for any healthy community, we really have to have a powerful understanding of the connections between causes or actions or decisions and the resulting impact on the community.

So, for example, if you are sitting on a chair and that chair is made of a really weak material and the chair breaks, the reason the chair broke isn't because you sat on it. It's because, well, I mean, I guess you could say the chair might not have broken had you not sat on it, but the direct cause between what happened when you sat down in the chair breaking was that the material

was too weak. That chair was not made correctly. Now, that's if we were looking at a material

cause. We could also see an action-based cause. Let's say you take that same chair and you jump on it.

You jump on it up and down. The chair breaks. Now, the chair might break because it didn't have

the strength in its materials to sustain you jumping on it.

It might have broken because a chair is not designed to be jumped on. The events, however, that resulted from that decision to jump on the chair is that the chair has now broken. It might be that you decide to sit on a chair, you think it looks strong, and maybe the chair is strong, but you have overestimated the strength of the chair. And the chair was really only designed for somebody who was maybe two years old.

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