#18: “So, You Call Yourself an American?”
In The Thick
Futuro Media
4.9 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 22 June 2016
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
This election renews the question of what it means to be an American. How should we define fundamental American values in light of the Orlando murders, the debate over gun rights, and politicians stoking our worst fears? Maria Hinojosa leads a discussion with Wajahat Ali, attorney, playwright and commentator, Verónica Bayetti Flores, freelance writer, and co-host of Radio Menea, and Julio Ricardo Varela, Political Editor for the Futuro Media Group.
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| 0:00.0 | Our job is to push and stretch the boundaries of what it means to be American, |
| 0:06.2 | to continually write a chapter in the evolving messy rough draft of America, |
| 0:11.6 | and to bum- rush the show. |
| 0:13.0 | Yo! |
| 0:14.0 | Yo! |
| 0:15.0 | Fuck back the girl! |
| 0:17.0 | Yoo |
| 0:18.0 | You know |
| 0:19.0 | O' |
| 0:17.0 | Hey welcome to In the Thick |
| 0:22.0 | This is a podcast about politics and the race to the White House in 2016. |
| 0:27.0 | We are the show that examines this week's political coverage through a diverse lens with different perspectives and with super cool people. |
| 0:34.6 | I'm your host, Maria Niro Hossa. |
| 0:36.0 | In Washington, D.C., we're joined by Wajahat Ali, he's an attorney, a playwright, |
| 0:40.0 | a commentator, just an all-American renaissance man. |
| 0:42.6 | Welcome back to the show. |
| 0:43.6 | I represent the super cool contingency of America today. |
| 0:47.3 | And with us in our Harlem studio studio is Julio Ricardo Barella. |
| 0:50.1 | He's a political editor for the Futuro media group. |
| 0:52.4 | Julio, it's good to see you in the studio. |
| 0:53.6 | Always great to be here. |
| 0:54.6 | And for the second week in a row, |
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