#107: Fighting the Silent Battles (With James McDaniel)

In The Thick

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News, Politics

4.9 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2018

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Maria calls up all-star guest, Christina Greer, professor at Fordham University and fellow at NYU's McSilver Institute for Poverty Policy and Research, to get an In The Thick take on the latest news. Then, Maria and Julio sit down with actor and artist, James McDaniel, who is best known for his role as Lieutenant Arthur Fancy in the groundbreaking series, NYPD Blue, and has also recently starred in The Deuce and The Night Shift. They chat about all the silent battles he fought from being one of the only black competitive horseback riders as a kid to help set the stage for future actors of color in the entertainment industry. He also explains why Marvel got his first and last $30 with the release of Black Panther. Plus, he offers one idea for our country to overcome its political divisions... hint: it's not by tweeting!

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0:00.0	This episode of In Thethick is brought to you by Away.
0:03.0	Hey, welcome to In The Thick, a podcast about politics, race, and culture from a POC perspective.
0:08.2	I'm Maria Inahosa and I'm Marilla Inahosa.
0:10.7	Because my co-host, Julio Ricardo Are Arella is traveling and I'm in the studio.
0:16.6	He's off in Miami getting an award from his Spanish eyes.
0:19.6	But there is so much news happening that we just had to give an in-the-thick take on this all with
0:25.1	one of our all-stars, Chrissy Greer, she's associate professor of political
0:28.8	science at Fordham University, and a what scholar at NYU? I'm the 2018 Mac Silver Institute fellow at
0:35.8	NYU. Okay Chrissy so I called you because I was like we have to talk the James
0:39.7	Comi memoir to me one of the things that stuck out and there was so much, he did say
0:45.4	that this president was morally unfit to be president because of the fact that
0:49.8	he is essentially citing with white supremacist.
0:53.7	But for you, what's your takeaway right now
0:56.0	with the James Comey thing?
0:57.3	Nowadays when people are just like, wow,
0:59.3	he's really unfit, he's really unqualified,
1:01.1	and he is clearly sympathetic to white supremacist
1:04.0	it's like well is this brand new I mean were you all just not paying attention I
1:08.8	called up my mom who is right now in Mexico she She's a US citizen.
1:13.2	And I said, mom, what did you think?
1:14.4	And she goes, let me tell you, I thought James Comi
1:17.4	is a whim and a Cimperguense in Spanish,
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