#41: Undercover With White Supremacists
In The Thick
Futuro Media
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šļø 5 December 2016
ā±ļø 40 minutes
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Summary
With all theĀ media attention about white supremacy and the alt-right, one former FBI undercover agent who infiltrated the white supremacistĀ movement wants to tell this country that we have it all wrong.
In this extended In The Thick, co-hosts Maria Hinojosa and Julio Ricardo Varela talk with Mike German about his experiences undercover, and how the media is missing the real story.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, this is No, I'm producer here at Emmethick. |
| 0:03.0 | On Saturday, August 12th, a white nationalist protest against the removal of a Confederate monument in Charlottesville, Virginia turned violent, |
| 0:10.0 | leaving one protester dead and 34 others injured. |
| 0:14.4 | 20-year-old James Alex Fields Jr. |
| 0:16.8 | who had written a report aligned with the neo-Nazi movement |
| 0:20.0 | has been charged with second-degree murder. He's accused of ramming his car into a group of people who gathered to counter protest the white |
| 0:26.8 | nationalists, killing Heather Hire, a 32-year-old woman. |
| 0:30.8 | In a statement after Hire was killed, President Trump initially condemned violence from, quote, many sides. |
| 0:37.0 | On Monday, Trump issued a second statement explicitly condemning, quote, |
| 0:41.0 | the K K K K K K, Neun Nazis, white supremacist, and other hate groups, but after |
| 0:45.6 | Trump's initial equivocating it's becoming harder and harder to disavow the link between |
| 0:50.3 | white nationalism and the White House. |
| 0:52.6 | So this week we wanted to take a look back at an episode we aired late last year. |
| 0:57.4 | It's a conversation our hosts Maria and Julio had with Mike German, a former FBI agent who went |
| 1:02.4 | undercover in a white supremacist community. |
| 1:05.4 | In the wake of Charlottesville, there's a sense that this sort of explicit in your face white |
| 1:09.7 | supremacy is something that was lying dormant until Trump took office. |
| 1:14.0 | But in this episode of In The Thick, Mike German reminds us, that's just not true. |
| 1:18.0 | White supremacy has always been part of our governing culture. |
| 1:22.0 | None of this is new. |
| 1:24.0 | Hey, welcome to In The Thick. |
| 1:29.0 | This is a podcast about politics, race and culture from a POC perspective. I'm Maria Inocosa and I'm |
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