A Democracy at Risk
In The Thick
Futuro Media
4.9 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 11 August 2020
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Maria and Julio are joined by two ITT All-Stars — Tina Vasquez, senior reporter at Prism, and LaTosha Brown, co-founder of the organization, Black Voters Matter. They talk about the 2020 election, including presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden's vice presidential pick and the Black and POC candidates winning local primaries across the country. They also dive into the Voting Rights Act and the federal government's continued cruelty toward immigrants. ITT Staff Picks: - Tina Vasquez reports about Peter Schey, an immigration attorney responsible for representing migrant children, who pushed for protocol that triggered family separation in this piece for Prism. - Errin Haines interviews a dozen strategists, activists and voters — including LaTosha Brown — about the growing calls for a Black woman as vice presidential candidate in this piece for The 19th. - Maria Hinojosa and Miguel Macias report about the long term effects of the August 2019 immigration raids at seven chicken processing plants in central Mississippi via Latino USA. Photo Credit: AP Photo/Ted S. Warren Â
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Dear listener, a quick favor. We're conducting an audience survey and we'd be really |
| 0:06.5 | grateful if you could take just a few minutes and answer it. So please visit survey. |
| 0:12.1 | ERX.org slash futuro to take our survey today. |
| 0:17.0 | That's survey dot PRX.org slash futuro. |
| 0:23.0 | Grazias. |
| 0:26.0 | Hey in the thick family, it's Julio and we recorded this week's show on Monday afternoon before the news drop that Joe Biden finally |
| 0:39.1 | announced his VP pick and that's California Senator Kamala Harris. You know this breaking news |
| 0:45.6 | happening as we're dropping a podcast. It happens but listen we're going to get |
| 0:51.4 | into what this all means during our Friday sound off this week with Maria |
| 0:56.5 | Nohosa and me. We got takes, so stay tuned for that. But for now, sit back, relax, take a listen to this roundtable with two amazing all-star guests. |
| 1:10.0 | Part of structural racism in this country has been equally distributed in both the Republican and the Democratic Party. Hey, welcome to In The Thick. |
| 1:25.0 | This is a podcast about politics, race and culture from a POC perspective. |
| 1:30.0 | I'm Marianne Hosa. |
| 1:31.0 | And I'm Jureka Lober-E-L-E-L-Luella and today we have two ITT all-stars calling |
| 1:35.8 | from their homes in quarantine yes yes. From Winston-Salem North Carolina is Tina Vasquez |
| 1:41.3 | she's a senior reporter with PRISM and a 2020 Ida B Wells fellow with |
| 1:46.4 | Type Investigations. |
| 1:47.6 | Welcome back, Tina. |
| 1:48.6 | Hi, thank you for having me. |
| 1:50.6 | Hey, hey. |
| 1:51.6 | And joining us from Atlanta, Georgia is the fabulous Latasha Brown, co-founder of Black Voters Matter. |
| 1:57.0 | What's up, Latasha? |
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