A Fourth of July Message
In The Thick
Futuro Media
4.9 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 2 July 2021
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
While Futuro Media is off for the Fourth of July, Maria and Julio check in with our dearest ITT listeners. They reflect on this past year and what celebrating democracy in this country looks like following the movement for racial justice, the coronavirus pandemic and the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol earlier this year. Photo credit: AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, file
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| 0:00.0 | Hey dear listener, a quick favor. |
| 0:03.5 | We're conducting an audience survey and we'd be really grateful if you could take just |
| 0:07.8 | a few minutes and answer it. |
| 0:09.8 | So please visit survey.prx.org slash futuro. |
| 0:15.6 | To take our survey today, that's survey.prx.org slash futuro. |
| 0:22.8 | Thank you. |
| 0:40.8 | Hey ITT fam, it's Maria Inohosa here. |
| 0:45.8 | So a quick little update that futuro and the in the thick team were taking the day off |
| 0:52.3 | because of the July 4th holiday weekend. |
| 0:55.3 | And so we're not going to have a sound off for you today, but we did want to do a little |
| 0:58.4 | check in. |
| 0:59.4 | See how the voice went up there? |
| 1:00.9 | Because as we approach the holiday, we've been thinking a lot about how we celebrate democracy |
| 1:06.8 | in this country. |
| 1:07.8 | Right. |
| 1:08.8 | And let's just take a moment to talk about where we are right now. |
| 1:12.9 | So last year during the 4th of July, the country was still reeling from the pandemic with |
| 1:19.3 | COVID-19 cases and deaths increasing daily. |
| 1:23.2 | Most of the country was still shut down. |
| 1:24.9 | And at the same time, we were seeing massive daily protest on the streets calling for racial |
| 1:31.0 | justice, following the police murder of George Floyd. |
| 1:34.0 | And so much has happened. |
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