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 we got a lot to get into. And I have to start with an apology. I have to correct the record.

Now, for those of you who are part of the YouTube community, one of the things that you

may or may not know is that I really pride myself on having a very honest relationship with my audience.

My relationship with my Urban View audience was forged and burst in the fires of the Karen

Hunter show. So from 2017 to the end of

2020, I was basically on every week providing legal analysis. And I believe very much in

integrity. My audience knows this. And I pride myself on having an honest relationship. And that

relationship requires us to have integrity with each other. You all trust me to give you quality, accurate information, and I trust you to share that

information and to distribute it with the rest of our community.

Now, that relationship and the nature thereof also requires me to acknowledge when I get

my information wrong.

Frankly, my mama raised us to be able to provide a definition of

integrity before we knew how to spell the word. And she would say something like, guys,

what does it mean to have integrity? And we would say, do what is right even when no one is

looking, because that's what integrity is. So there would be no way for me to sit behind this microphone without acknowledging that I will at times get my facts wrong. And when that happens, it requires me to correct the record. So there are some corrections of the record I need to make because when it occurred to me, then I realized, I was like, oh, my God, I had to make sure that I came back and let you all know. So I want to say something really quick about acknowledging mistakes.

I think a lot of times in American society, we identify mistakes or acknowledging that

you made a mistake as a sign of weakness.

I think that's flawed.

I think when you make a mistake, you have an obligation to rectify the mistake, either by saying sorry, either by correcting the record, which I'm about to do today, or by just acknowledging, my bad. Like, maybe your mistake wasn't driven by a mistake. Maybe the mistake that you made was driven because you was mean and you was disrespectful. Whatever it was, we have to be in a position if we're going to be creating

a better world, certainly one that's better than the trash ass mess we living in right now.

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