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. Y'all know how I really like San Kofa as like just a principal. It's so helpful. I talk

about San Kofa all the time. And as a principle, it's one that really helps us to understand

how it is we got to the conditions that we're in. And that matters a lot because when you don't

know how you got to the conditions that you're in, what is that, what is that phrase?

We know this phrase.

If you don't know your history or those who don't know their history are destined to repeat

it.

And that's something that we just don't want to do here on the Lurie Daniel Favor show, even

though there are other people who frankly benefit a lot from, from us repeating that history

and they're doing everything that they can in order

to make that happen again that history I mean make that history happen again the Sankofa principle

is really a part of a broader symbol of principles and those principles are all depicted with

what some people might call hieroglyphs but hieroglyphs is not appropriate because hieroglyphs are what we know as the symbol systems on the pyramids found throughout the Sudan, Nubia, Kemet, and those, Egypt, you know, what you think about in those spaces, that's what we tend to think about when we're thinking about hieroglyphs.

But the adinkras symbol systems of which the Sankofa bird is one of them,

this symbol or the system of principles, is basically a West African iteration of writing systems,

and it is a West African iteration that really uses powerful symbols and imagery to depict

various, very important principles, right? And so Sankofa, the principle for Sankofofa is one that basically says you have to go back to your past and fetch it. You don't go back to the past to get stuck there, but you have to go back to the past if you are going to do any of the work of ensuring that you understand where you are today and ensuring where you're going into the future. It's going to matter a lot because we're going to be talking about fugitive slave laws today. And the reason I

started with Sankofa is because everything that we are experiencing right now, when it comes

to the way that your president is attempting to basically flood black cities, predominantly

black cities, and flood them with military apparatus, with with with the national guard and and basically

taking over local policing functions similar to what we saw happen in dc it has ever since it

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