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, folks, let's get into it. Today is Monday, October the 13th. Happy Indigenous

People's Day. I think this is something we should acknowledge because truthfully, we're all

indigenous to somewhere. Today, we are just acknowledging the indigenous people who were in

this particular slice of the planet, Turtle Island. And we do so because y'all's president

is trying to bring back Columbus Day, which is entirely asinine to me.

But that's a conversation for another day.

I just want to begin by acknowledging that this is a pretty significant moment.

And frankly, as I explained in our moment of gratitude today, which all of you in the podcast land will hear tomorrow,

it is so important that we remember that we too have an indigenity to our heritage.

I'm talking specifically those of us who are members of the global majority.

And it is so important that we are engaging in practices and rituals and songs and cultural

expressions that are designed to keep the sacredness of our African indigeneity alive. And so I'm just hoping that all of you are taking some time to do that today, because I think it's a pretty important thing to do.

And often it is easy to do these sorts of acknowledgments on behalf of other people.

And I think we should do that.

But I also think we would be remiss to not remember the importance of remembering our own connection to the land and history

that has at our heart and at the center of our culture and indigenity that some have tried to

dominate and apparently aren't doing very well, although that ain't stopping them from trying.

And so this is a very sacred time. And I just pray that you're able to give some acknowledgement

to those who are the original inhabitants

of this land, as well as acknowledging those who were the inhabitants of our ancestral homes

and remembering the connections there.

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