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. So today is Tuesday the 22nd, And yesterday was the one year anniversary of the day that

Kamala Harris formally entered the 2024 presidential race. One, I couldn't believe that had already

been a year. But two, I also could not believe that it felt so late in the summer for me to get

that reminder. And by the end of July, it really is, and I've always told my audience, I think

July is the greatest month in the year, but the end of July is my husband's birthday. And so for me,

the end of July also sort of begins to signal the second half of summer going into the end of summer.

And when I was reminded on my show yesterday, because my amazing production team sent me a note

while I was live on air,

and then I was thinking about the fact that, my God, it feels so late into the summer for

this announcement to have been made one year ago yesterday. And then it wasn't just that. After I

got off the show and I went to the Law Center and I finished up there, a friend of mine sent

me a screenshot of a text thread that we were on.

And it was a screenshot that contained my reaction when I found out.

This was the text group that basically told me last year what had happened and that it was

official that Kamala Harris was now in the race.

And my one word response to the news was simply, fuck. I said the word

fuck, not because I often use the word fuck, but I said the word fuck, not because I worried about her

platform. I said it because I was really clear about the uphill battle we were about to face

in order to combat the disinformation campaigns that were already doing the devil's work. And let me be clear about who I mean by we, because some of y'all like to say that I, who have never once been paid, not one red, black, nor green sent by the Democratic Party, some folks like to say, I'm a shill for the party whenever I point out some ways in which we could do better electorally as a community. So let me be clear.

Now when I say we were going to have an uphill battle, by that I meant we, the people who

...