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 X-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. Here is today's latest and greatest breakdownable news. Now, if you have been watching my

YouTube channel over the course of the past several days, you know I've been talking a lot about the

lessons we can learn from the New York City primary. This was a very interesting primary election

where basically black voters largely went with the Democratic establishment candidate and all

the other members of

IPOC, as in, you know, BIPOC, black, indigenous people of color.

And BIPAC is sort of a phrase that allows black people to have identity, indigenous people

to have identity, and then sort of lumps people of color altogether.

Well, the B, the blacks in BIPC largely went in one direction of voting for Andrew Cuomo, who was the Democratic candidate,

the establishment candidate, I guess if you will. And the IPOC, everybody else, the poor people,

everybody else went for Zoran Mamdani, who was a very progressive candidate, who essentially is

claiming victory after a powerful showing in the New York City primary.

This has caused all sorts of hand-wringing, of course,

because this very progressive younger candidate who was not black

was able to eke out this win with only the black youth vote.

Largely black middle age and older voters went for the establishment candidate.

We had elder statesmen like Jim Clyburn,

who weighed in and endorsed Andrew Cuomo, the establishment candidate. We had almost an infinity

ring gathering of black elected officials in New York City who decided to throw their support

behind Andrew Cuomo, even though many of them had criticized Andrew Cuomo and called for him to

resign when he had been credibly accused of sexually assaulting multiple women who worked for him.

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