#6: The Sanders Swing Vote—Young People of Color
In The Thick
Futuro Media
4.9 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 30 March 2016
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
Bernie Sanders is riding a wave of momentum after sweeping three contests. Is there an unspoken swing vote —young people of color— behind Sanders' success? Futuro Media Group’s Julio Ricardo Varela leads a lively discussion with Boston Globe editorial writer Marcela García and Basil Smikle, Executive Director of the New York State Democratic Party.
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| 0:00.0 | Black folk been angry for a long time, but you called us winners and people who leech off of government. |
| 0:05.6 | But now, because the white community is talking in the same way, all of a sudden it's legitimate issue. |
| 0:13.0 | Welcome to In the Thick, a podcast about politics and the race to the White House in 2016. |
| 0:18.0 | We're the show with different perspectives and conversations about this week's political coverage. |
| 0:23.6 | I'm your host, Julio Ricalo-Barela, filling in this week for Maria Inohosa, who's on vacation. |
| 0:28.8 | Today joining us from Boston is Marcella Garcia, |
| 0:31.7 | editorial writer and columnist for the Boston Globe. |
| 0:34.6 | Hello Marcella. |
| 0:35.7 | Hi Julio, thank you for having me. |
| 0:37.6 | Always. |
| 0:38.6 | And in our Harlem studio we have Basil Schmichael, executive director of the New York State Democratic Party. |
| 0:44.8 | Hey Basil? |
| 0:45.8 | Hey, it's good to be here. |
| 0:47.2 | And I'm Julio Ricalo-Barela political editor for Futuro Media Group. |
| 0:51.8 | This weekend after Sanders won his three states, many media outlets |
| 0:55.4 | claimed he won them only because the states were all white. You know, Washington State, |
| 0:59.6 | Alaska, and Hawaii, but they just aren't. |
| 1:03.0 | They're diverse states. |
| 1:04.0 | Leslie Lee, a black writer living in Japan, |
| 1:06.0 | created the hashtag, |
| 1:08.0 | Bernie made me white, tweeting things like, |
| 1:11.0 | I knew it. |
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