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-X-M'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. Today we're going to have a bit of a story time. And this is a story time that centers on two people, George and baby Liam.

And we're going to have a bit of a story time, and this is a story time that centers on two people, George and Baby Liam. And we're going to talk about this because I think there's some lessons that we need to consider. There's some things we need to be aware of. I just want to remind you all, please don't forget to like, subscribe, and share the videos. And for those of you who are not yet on my mailing list, don't forget that my online community Sancofa Connections is going to be opening in February on the fifth anniversary of my show.

If you are not on my mailing list. Don't forget that my online community, Sankofa, Connexions, is going to be opening in February on the fifth anniversary of my show. If you are not on my mailing list, however, you will not get the link to join. So you can go to Laudanielfavours.com, scroll to the bottom, get your name on the mailing list. We ain't trying to spam you at all. But we are going to be creating this online community because frankly I don't own any of these platforms and so I

want to have one that I do and we'll talk more about that as time

approaches before we get into our story time today just want to say shout out to

Hakeem Jeffrey something I have not said in years because it appears that he is

listening to the voices of the people he came out against he decided to come out

against the idea of funding ice and I think this is amazing because we had recently heard that he was for funding ICE or was not willing to resist funding ICE in this continuing resolution. And what this tells me is that he's listening to the voice of the people. Because if he had one position previously and as a result of you all calling your elected officials and letting them know how you really feel about the slave catchers who are opposing as ICE agents, it just feels like they're finally starting to listen. Don't take your foot off them next though. Don't take your foot. That's my congressman. I'm going to keep my foot on that neck as well. I just wanted to say that because I often criticize the Democrats. And so when I see something good, I want to make sure that we are referencing that as well. I want to share something with you all today that really disturbed my spirit.

But I'm going to share with you all something to the point that I felt a little weepy about what we're beginning to witness. And so today, instead of heavy, heavy news analysis, I have a story that I would like to read to you all. And this story is actually an excerpt from a book I've been working on for forever, but still haven't finished. And this story is an excerpt from a chapter called Self-Hating Presumptions,

how white nationalism shaped black thought. And this first story is about what happens to a young

teenager named George as seen and experienced through the eyes of his little brother Amos.

Okay, everybody with me? All right, here we go.

Shortly after Amos turned about six or seven years old,

his owner burst into the shack that he shared with his parents and siblings.

It was a Sunday morning, and this was usually one of the days that Amos's family and the other enslaved Africans,

it was the day that they used to recover from the previous six days

of hard labor working on Mr. Rogers' farm. Mr. Rogers, like many slave owners, believed himself

to be a kind slave owner. He was not, in fact, kind at all. Besides the fact that the entire idea

of being considered a kind person while owning another person is wholly ridiculous, Mr. Rogers was,

frankly speaking,

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