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. So yesterday, we left off with a part one of a two-part segment. And yesterday's segment

was really exploring the racist, which means anti-black in this context, and the anti-white

poor roots of fiscal conservatism. If you miss that episode, I highly recommend you pause here

and go back and take a listen because we really do a deep dive into how

fiscal conservatism, this idea that we shouldn't be spending any money for social services,

how it came to be. And basically in summation, for those of you who are not patient enough to

listen to two podcast episodes back to back, what happened was after the Civil War, black people,

black men in particular because you had to be a man and have a penis in order to actually vote. But black people were more readily represented electorally because black people were finally able to vote. Again, when I say black people here, I mean black men, because until the 19th Amendment was passed, which gave white women the right to vote, and then the 1965 Voting Rights Act,

which gave black women the right to vote.

One had to have a penis in order to actually vote.

But having a black penis was prohibited to voting until, for most of the country, until after

the Civil War.

What ended up happening was once they were able to vote and get themselves into office,

which they were able to do largely because the into office, which they were able to do largely

because the traitors, the Confederates, had no longer any rights to vote at all because they were

no longer considered citizens because when the states who became parts of the Confederacy

left the Union when they seceded, they gave up their citizenship so that they could become

citizens of the Confederate

states. And so when they came back into the union's good graces, it was mainly the black people

who were able to vote. And what did black people do when they got a right to vote? Well, they

decided to use the vote to benefit everybody. And formerly enslaved Africans and free blacks basically use their electoral power to collaborate

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