Welcome to Lurie Breaks It Down, a podcast where we dig deeply to connect the dots on the

controversial issues that are shaping our world.

I'm Lurie Daniel Favors,

author, activist, and host of the Lurie Daniel Favors show on Sirius XM's Urban View,

Channel 126. I've only been doing these podcasts for a little while now. And one of the things

I've realized is that it can be a challenge to take the concepts

that we regularly discuss on my live show and incorporate them here in this space. I never want

to assume that people in the podcast side of my universe are also active listeners on the radio

side of my universe, although I'm always happy when they are, but the podcast

is by nature designed to reach a broader audience in a variety of ways. And that means that I owe

you some explanations when it comes to some of the terms that we use, particularly when we're

using terms that right now in our broader society are kind of controversial.

And with that, I'm really talking about terms like white supremacy.

And I'm going to explain white supremacy in this podcast episode because I think it's important that we have shared language and shared understanding of what some of these terms mean

so that we can use them more freely in future episodes in a way that

brings us together and doesn't cause as much confusion. Now, Neely Fuller Jr., who is now an ancestor

as of just a few weeks ago, a brilliant scholar who said the following, if you don't understand

white supremacy, what it is and how it operates, everything that you think you understand will only confuse you.

Now, in some iterations, he said if you don't understand white supremacy or racism, because those words can be used interchangeably.

The ultimate point is, however, if you don't understand racism or white supremacy, how it looks, how it functions,

its role in society, then what you think you understand about any topic is going to be a little

confusing for you. And this is a quote that I use a lot because quite frankly, I have heard

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