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. Have you guys ever heard that story? It's called The Spook Who Sat By the Door. It was a film and a book,

but it's basically a story about a black man who is pretending to be like an Uncle Tom character.

And he's doing that for a very intentional reason, not because he doesn't actually believe in

black people or he wants to actually sell black people out. No, he's playing like he's an Uncle

Tom because he wants to get access to the CIA

training program. And he successfully does that. He gets access to the CIA training program and then

he uses the information that he gets from the CIA training program to basically spark off the

next American Revolution, wherein black people are empowered to do whatever it is that black people

are empowered to do. Now, the book ends at a part where you're sort of given access to imagining what would it be like

if we had people within our community who got access to ultra-secret high-powered spy and defense mechanism

information and then shared it with all of us in a very covert way so that

those of us who have been victimized by white nationalism for centuries would be able to not

just have a chance at fighting back, but would be able to win.

It's a very important concept.

And this idea of being the spook is one that says there are some black people who get access to access points

if you will doorways of power and when they get access to those access points or those doorways

of power they use that access not so that they can get a new call or buy a new house or you know

get some furs or go on a trip or something. No, they use that access to that power intentionally and explicitly to benefit their own community.

And that notion, you know, are you going to be in these spaces with high places just to get by for yourself?

Or are you going to use that information that you get to go back and help your own?

That is a very important question.

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