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 it occurs to me that we are in a bit of a new Jim Crow era. We are in a new

Jim Crow era. And I'm going to tell you why I would say that. And you all remember what Jim

Crow was. It was the statement of a bunch of really restrictive laws that black folks had to live

under starting in kind of late 1800s, let's say starting around late the late 1870s.

All of these laws started to come into place that restricted black people's movement.

They basically criminalized being black.

I mean, you could be arrested for not having a job.

You could be arrested for being in a place that you shouldn't be.

And this is mostly through the South.

There are plenty of places in the North that had Jim Crow laws too. But this was a really,

really difficult time in our country's history lasted from like the late 1800s through

really when the civil rights movement first began maybe in the late 40s, early 50s.

So I feel like we're entering a new era that I would say would be reflective of that time, that Jim Crow era.

And it's not just for black people, really.

We're at least the first wave of this we're seeing is mostly affecting brown people.

We are now in an era where a certain contingency of people in the country who see their job as taking the country

in this very specific direction that is extremely restrictive for a very specific group of people,

where those people are now being allowed to go about their business unabated. There are very few

laws, very few restrictions that now exist that can prevent them from doing things the way that they want to do them.

And they are determined to restrict the movements and the rights of certain groups of people.

Now that they have unlimited funding, we don't know how bad this is going to get.

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