Welcome to Lurie Breaks It Down, a podcast where we dig deeply to connect the dots on the issues that are currently shaping our world.

I'm Lurie Daniel Favors, author, activist, and host of

the Lurie Daniel Favors show on Sirius XM's Urban View, Channel 126. Now, in our previous episode,

we provided a definition of the phrase white supremacy, both how it shows up in the individual

context, and that's easy to see. It's when individual groups of people

march around with a tiki torch, for example, in mobs where they are shouting things like Jews will

not replace us or yelling white power or giving Nazi salutes from central stages. That is an easy way of identifying individual

white supremacists. But in our previous episode, we spent more time talking about how white

supremacy shapes society with a particular emphasis as to how it shapes the white American

experience, or I really should say the European American experience,

something that you'll find out about as it pertains to the nuances there in that last episode.

But for today, I want to pick up that conversation again and talk about how white supremacy

doesn't just impact white Americans' view of themselves.

It also has a real powerful impact on the view that

Black Americans hold of ourselves and of broader society. And I know this might trouble some

of you, but when I say Black in any meaningful context, whether it's Black American or what have

you, I'm not being very specific or particular to just the experience of

black people in America. I'm using it more as a catch-all phrase to describe what's happening

across the Pan-African diaspora. It just so happens. I am an American and have been socialized

here. And so these concepts show up very powerfully in the American experience. But as we discussed in the

previous episode, it's important to know that these concepts are universal and they're worldwide

because colonialism was a global enterprise, as was enslavement. And so with those caveats,

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