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, folks, here is today's latest and greatest breakdownable news. So you may

know that I feel a little way about the Supreme Court. And the way I feel about the Supreme Court

is basically enshrined in the words of one of my favorite Supreme Court justices, Thurgood Marshall,

the first black justice of the Supreme Court. I've talked about him recently in a few podcast episodes,

but his philosophy, his legal philosophy was that we must do what is right and let the law catch up.

Now, for a lot of attorneys trained in the traditions of jurisprudence and precedent and all sorts of other things that were taught in law school,

in addition to the rules of evidence and so on and so forth, you might be surprised to hear a jurist, particularly someone like a Thurgood Marshall, who had

such a lackadaisical-ish type of approach to the legal framework that most typified his ideology.

But when you consider his history as a black man in this country, using the law as

best he could in the days where segregation was legal and it was so perfectly legal that it was

inspiring to the Nazis who studied American segregation, both the enslavement version and the

post-inslavement version. It was inspiring to those who created apartheid in South Africa and

everywhere else where they have strived to the best of their white nationalist hearts to basically try to be as good at being racist as were the Americans.

When you are a black man in that reality, trying to think about how to use the law to make the lives of your people better, more equitable, and to

make this country actually live up to the words that it heirs to, well, then you can forgive someone

like a third good marshal for saying, do what is right and let the law catch up. Frankly,

Third good marshal should be forgiven the rest of you who don't seem to be in alignment

with that philosophy. But the reason I

mention this now is because a man like Thurgood Marshall or a person as amazing as Polly Murray or

Charles Hamilton Houston, these great legal jurists and brilliant minds who are thinking strategically

about the interplay between law and activism, they had to say, do what's right and let the law catch up.

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