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 one of the questions that we have to ask in a week like this week is where are we

actually going in this country? And the reason I'm saying that is because you may be aware that

this is the week that we celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act. Now, the Voting Rights Act

was one of three pieces of legislation, three federal laws that basically said,

listen, America, you've been racist as hell since you don't start it, since even before you started,

before you was a twinkling in your colonial mother's eye, you've been racist as hell. But because of

that racism, the nation has had to make some decisions, like whether or not we still going to be

racist or not. And in the

civil rights movement, it culminated after decades of advocacy, which quite frankly really began

in the immediacy following the Civil War. The civil rights advocacy culminated in three pieces of

legislation that were basically designed to say, while America had been as racist as it possibly could be,

it was now going to move in a direction where racism was going to be functionally illegal,

where racism was not going to be the goal to which the country was aspiring,

but was instead, in fact, going to be the opposite of where the country was trying to go,

because that's where we were trying to do integration, right?

After segregation came integration. And integration is this idea that there should not be

a legal framework that allows for racial discrimination or other types of discrimination. We

just talk about racism right now because the racists are back. And the question we have to ask

on this week where we are acknowledging the 60th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act, the question we have to ask is, number one, are they going to kill the Voting

Rights Act? And number two, how much power do these white nationalists actually want? Because

frankly, as somebody who studies this and I have been a student of this work for a very long

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