#43: Back to the Future
In The Thick
Futuro Media
4.9 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 4 January 2017
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
It’s a new year! And what’s the first week of January all about? RESOLUTIONS. And as you tell your friends how you’re going to starting drinking more water and going to bed earlier, we’re declaring our new years resolution right here and right now: to continue to have those tough and necessary conversations (in addition to taking the stairs more). So hosts Maria Hinojosa and Julio Ricardo Varela kick this year off by talking with Jamil Smith, Senior National Correspondent at MTV News, about how to be better POC: being loud and proud, and practicing what we preach.
We also touch on major stories we’ll be following this year with a conversation about politicians using race to fuel paranoia of immigrants, the declining prison population, and what Hollywood might look like under a Trump administration.
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| 0:00.0 | Is it going to look like tanks, you know, attacking protesters in North Dakota? |
| 0:04.5 | That's what we got under Obama. |
| 0:06.5 | God knows what we're going to see under Trump. |
| 0:08.8 | Hey, welcome to In The Thick in 2017. This is a podcast about politics, race, and |
| 0:17.4 | culture from a POC perspective. I'm Maria Inohossar. And I'm Julio Loberila. |
| 0:22.4 | And joining us is one of our favorite in the thick guest |
| 0:25.0 | Jamil Smith senior national correspondent at MTV News. |
| 0:28.8 | Welcome back to the show, Jamil. |
| 0:30.4 | Thank you and happy new year. |
| 0:31.3 | Happy new year. Happy new year. Happy new year. |
| 0:34.0 | We all took some time off. |
| 0:36.0 | Bravo. We love getting disconnected. |
| 0:40.0 | But today we're going to have a conversation about the new year and looking forward to the new year, right Julio? |
| 0:47.0 | I mean, Maria, 2016 was a really tough year. |
| 0:50.0 | We know that in a lot of ways for a lot of communities of color. |
| 0:53.0 | But we're still curious. |
| 0:54.6 | I mean, how should we be talking about race in 2017? |
| 0:59.0 | And how can we be better POCs? |
| 1:02.6 | Ah, well, I think, you know, POCs are stereotyped as loud and boisterous. |
| 1:08.4 | I think that, uh, I think that's actually not a bad stereotype you know in this in this coming |
| 1:13.2 | we gotta be louder we gotta be louder and we gotta be more boisterous I think that |
| 1:17.2 | this entire election was centered around identity we have to continue to |
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