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 let's get into today's topic. Y'all know that phrase that we use all skinfolk ain't kinfolk.

And for those of you who are not familiar with the phrase, audience. All right, so let's get into today's topic. Y'all know that phrase that we use

all skinfolk and kinfolk. And for those of you who are not familiar with the phrase, one,

hi, welcome to the culture. Basically, the skin folk versus kinfolk paradigm is one that says,

even though we might have something in common, something really, really, really important

in common, like our skin color. And skin color here is

sort of a fill in for culture, heritage, identity that are shaped in a racialized society. The idea is that

skin folk, people who share racial affinity, aren't necessarily kinfolk, which means that they

would move beyond just a surface level

acknowledgement of what we all have in common in terms of racial identity, heritage,

and so forth, and actually operate in a way that sought to provide benefits to people

as a result of this shared affinity. This notion that there can sometimes be a distinction

between skin folk and kinfolk speaks to this idea that for many of us,

we sort of move through the world in a way where we kind of by default, expect that if I see

you and you see me and we are part of the same culture, community, and racialized group, then we're

going to at least work together.

At the very least, we're not going to be ops to each other, as the kids say.

Now the challenge with that is there's a realization that that's simply not always the case.

There are some people with whom you share a racial affinity who, quite frankly, will stab you in a bag before anybody else.

And they would be the skin folk in skin only, not necessarily the kinfolk.

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