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. So the thing about racism is that it's really expensive. And it's not just

expensive because it causes harm and it undermines our capacity to engage in actual competition

where we get to see who the best actually really is. Racism is an artificial system of

hierarchy that basically distributes resources based on

race, which frankly is a concept that didn't really exist outside of the past five to six hundred

years. This concept that human beings can be categorized based on a racial hierarchy,

a racial hierarchy that doesn't actually exist in

nature or in science. It's really just about the ideas we have about who has value and who doesn't.

Well, that idea, that concept is really expensive. One of the reasons why I'm so grateful for

the racists in this era is that their willingness to be

explicitly and openly and hostilely racist at all times when it comes to their actions,

with their policies and how they want the world to be designed.

Well, they have been really honest recently.

They've been so honest that it allows the rest of us the

capacity to have really honest dialogue and conversation about the nature of racism and the

costs of racism. People like Heather McGee have studied this extensively. And in her book,

which came out a few years ago, The Sum of Us, Heather really describes not just the

ridiculousness of racism, but she describes how it costs everyone. Now, sure, it costs some of us a little

more than others. Some of us bear the pain of racism and the burden of racism in ways that

others don't. But ultimately, we all pay a cost, even the people,

as in the white people, who technically derive some benefit from racism and racist policies.

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