#25: It's Not Racist to Report on Race
In The Thick
Futuro Media
4.9 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 10 August 2016
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Building a wall to stop immigration. Police killing black men. A politician banning Muslims. As America erupts over race and ethnicity, many reporters of color feel it’s their obligation to lead the conversation dividing the country. Maria Hinojosa leads a discussion with New York Times reporter Yamiche Alcindor, Washington Post reporter Wesley Lowery, and Julio Ricardo Varela, Political Editor at the Futuro Media Group.
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| 0:00.0 | Are you sure you want to be a race reporter because you're already black and you're already |
| 0:04.0 | have an afro like you sure you want to do this and I'm like yeah yeah I do. |
| 0:07.7 | Bring it on. |
| 0:09.7 | O'Connell Hey welcome to In The Thick. This is the podcast about politics bringing you |
| 0:14.9 | diverse perspectives from our dynamic and changing America. I'm your host |
| 0:19.0 | Marlagno Hosa. With me in our Harlem studio this week, Yamish Alsindor. |
| 0:23.8 | She's a reporter for the New York Times. |
| 0:25.8 | And joining me from Washington, D.C. |
| 0:27.5 | is Wesley Lowry. |
| 0:28.9 | He's a national reporter for the Washington Post. |
| 0:31.1 | And also with me in Harlem is Julio Ricardo |
| 0:34.0 | Barella he's a political editor here at the Futura media group so it's great to |
| 0:38.0 | have all of you on the show. So before we get to our main focus this week, we just can't ignore what Donald Trump said on Tuesday of this week. |
| 0:48.0 | Yes, he actually said this at an event. |
| 0:51.0 | If she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do folks. |
| 0:57.5 | Although the Second Amendment people, maybe there is, I don't know. |
| 1:00.3 | Should we absolutely interpret this as Donald Trump telling his supporters that they should consider an option of shooting candidate Clinton? |
| 1:10.4 | What do you think, Amish? The Clinton campaign, if you X them them would say yes you should |
| 1:14.0 | interpret it that way they put out statements basically saying that this was a |
| 1:17.6 | dangerous thing for him to do and we're kind of casting him as is almost |
| 1:21.0 | making a threat however a Donald Trump kind of really he really |
| 1:25.8 | defended these comments. He said you know in the Second Amendment what I meant |
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