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Lurie Breaks It Down

Moment of Gratitude: Self Determination Isn't Always Easy

Lurie Breaks It Down

Women's Empowerment Network

Culture, News, History, Society & Culture, Politics

5.0617 Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2025

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Lurie talks about the Kwanzaa principle, Kujichagulia - self determination - and how the path to self determination can be difficult sometimes.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Look, we break it down, down, down, down, down.

0:05.0

She breaking down, down, down, down, down, down.

0:11.7

She got to message for the people, a brilliant mind and a clean soul.

0:17.3

She's standing up to the evil in making sure that we all grow strong enough

0:22.5

To break these change we're in

0:24.2

They keep us in this painful condition

0:26.8

She gave us truth and division

0:29.5

That's why we listen

0:31.3

She break it down, down, down, down, down, down.

0:36.4

She break it down, down, down, down. She break it down, down, down, down, down.

0:41.7

We also, before we get to any of these items, have a ritual on this show that we incorporate every day.

0:47.6

Because, frankly, this is not the easiest of shows to grapple with.

0:51.1

We do a lot of heavy news analysis, and it can be heavy and weighty on the

0:55.3

spirit. And so we began at the very beginning of this show a ritual called a moment of gratitude

0:59.9

because, you know, I don't want people being depressed when we talk about this stuff. I need

1:03.6

you all to listen. That's why I be using voices and songs and tropes and skits. Y'all see I have a

1:10.1

whole bag of tricks that I'd be trying to pull stuff out

1:12.3

to make challenging news palatable. And that's by design. And so one of the other things that's

1:18.6

by design is making sure that energetically we are in the right frame of mind before we start talking

1:22.4

about any of these things, right? Before we delve into the details. And so this ritual that we

1:26.7

created is called a moment of gratitude and it serves a very important purpose. It allows us, before we grapple

1:31.8

with the difficult, to make sure that we are proactively tapping into something that's going

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