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. So today is Monday, September the 22nd, 2025. Lots to get into, as always.

And today's umbrella topic, if you will, under which every single one of the stories we're

going to discuss this morning, or I guess by the time y'all they're hearing it this afternoon,

is basically an umbrella that reads how whiteness culture is destroying the American economy.

I think that's

basically what we're going to be talking about and that's essentially what's happening right now.

A hallmark of whiteness culture includes ignoring the warning signs, especially when those

warning signs indicate that the choices that are being made might be a problem. Now,

traditionally, if you see that the choices you're making are going to be

problematic, wise people would decide to no longer make those choices. The challenges, oftentimes,

these are choices that are being made to preserve whiteness, to preserve the integrity, if you

will, of the white supremacist racial hierarchy. And if you as someone who promotes whiteness culture make a series of

choices that are designed to advance your understanding of what whiteness culture is, chances are you're

going to ignore the signs, you're going to ignore the data, and willfully bury your heads in the stand

to avoid the reality that those very ignorant decisions are making. According to polling USA,

when they asked a number of Americans whether or not they would say things in the country are heading in the right direction versus wrong direction, we got some pretty clear data, some very clear data about that.

And the data includes the following.

If you believe that the country is going in the wrong direction, you were in the 75% of people polled who agreed with you. That was an increase of 13% over the last time that this

question was asked by polling USA back in June. If you believe the country is headed in the right

direction, you are unfortunately a part of a small and shrinking group of only 24% of the population.

That includes a drop of 13 points from, again, the last time this question was asked in June.

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