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. Just a quick programming note, too, I'm traveling, which is why my audio probably sounds

a little funky yesterday and today. Just bear with me. I'm out in them social justice streets and

we got work to do. So apologies for the sound, but let's get into the content. A few weeks ago,

we introduced a phrase that I got from somewhere on the internet about Green Book rules. And I sort of flipped

the phrase and put a little spin on it and said, it's not just that Green Book's rule,

but we have to operate by Green Book rules. So for those of you who may recall, or who I guess I

should say may not recall, the green book was essentially a book that informed

black people during the Jim Crow era, which communities, which hotels were safe for them

to be in if they had to travel. So if you were going from, say, Mississippi to Georgia, there

are certain towns that if you were to navigate through, you could very well find that you

were in a sundown town

right before the sun goes down.

And so the green book was essentially a guidebook,

an Atlas, if you will, a roadmap,

letting black people know which communities were safe,

which hotels were safe, where they could go

if they wanted to stay for overnight,

lodging where they absolutely should not go wanted to stay for overnight, lodging, where they absolutely

should not go. It was basically a physical embodiment of the mantra, stay woke, this notion that

we have to keep each other safe by being aware of our surroundings and aware of what time it is.

Well, we are bringing back, I guess I shouldn't say bringing back. We are returning or remembering to

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