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, y'all, there's just so much to get to. As you may recall on Friday, I'd said that, well, actually on Thursday, I had said that on Friday, we were going to talk economy. There were all these numbers coming out, the jobs numbers, blah, blah, blah, but then once Friday got here, I was like, you know what, my spirit just couldn't take it. And so we had a completely different topic on Friday. I needed something a little lighter, a little less heavy in the news to go into the weekend. And so I hope that all worked out

for you. But today, that means that we now have to deal with the mess that is Trumponomics, right? And so

Trumponomics, I really like to think of them as W-E-I-Nomics, white entitled and incompetent nomics, because when we're talking about a Trump economy, whether you want to call it the Trump slump, Trumpflation, or Trumponomics, it's all terrible. And it is exactly what you would expect from a W.E.I presidency. Now, some of you may be wondering, what the hell is W.EI? Well, for those of you who are new to me to this experience, I coined the term W.E.I, which stands for white, entitled, and incompetent after the 2024 election. And I coined this phrase because we all needed some phrase, some phrase, some language that was going to allow us to push back on the way that white nationalists were making

the phrase DEI, diversity, equity, and inclusion into a slur. Or at least they were trying to.

And you may recall that they were renaming DEI as didn't earn it. And they said that if you're a

diversity hire, you were not qualified. You didn't have any merit. And so before I get into the awfulness

that is Trumponomics right now in terms of the national economy, let's sit in this space of

WEI for just a little bit. I've now started to see memes and images with the acronym W.E.I.

White entitled and incompetent with a bunch of white men's faces on it. I love it. I think it's

taking off wonderfully just as I intended. However, we got to make sure we are clear on the nature of the

WEI reality, the white entitled and incompetent reality. So we can employ this analysis whenever we're

looking at what's happening here in this nation or across the globe. So keep in mind, the only reason

that we needed programs that

fell under the label of diversity, equity, and inclusion was because there was, we just needed

something that was going to break this multi-decade white American racist project to exclude

black people from participating in anything, right? So once segregation became illegal, white people who were racist

refused to stop being racist. Now, some of them decided to give up the ghosts, but most of them,

largely speaking, refused to actually stop being racist. In fact, they were so committed to racism

that it didn't matter how qualified you were. Your non-white skin was going to be a barrier that

your excellence was simply not going to be able to overcome.

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