Census Suppression
In The Thick
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4.9 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 30 April 2019
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Last week, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments for whether the Trump administration should add a question about citizenship to the 2020 Census, effectively changing the way people in the United States would be counted. Maria and Julio are joined by Dorian Warren, president of the Center for Community Change, and Hansi Lo Wang, NPR national correspondent, to discuss the Supreme Court case and how this question would impact POC and immigrant communities.
ITT Staff Picks:
- Hansi Lo Wang gives you everything you need to know about the 2020 Census, from NPR.
- Check out this timeline following how the census citizenship question ended up at the Supreme Court, via NPR.
- This New York Times op-ed on why allowing the census question goes against our democracy. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
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| 0:28.0 | Being counted is one low risk way of standing up and pushing back and saying no. We will stand for democracy and |
| 0:36.6 | freedom and belonging for everybody. |
| 0:40.3 | Hey, Kepaso, welcome to In The Thick. This is a podcast about politics, race and culture from a POC perspective. |
| 0:48.0 | I'm Maria Inu Rosa. And I'm Holly O'Barela. |
| 0:51.0 | And joining us? First time ever from Washington, D.C. is Dorian Warren, |
| 0:55.2 | president of the Center for Community Change. Hey Dorian, welcome to the show. |
| 0:59.2 | Thanks for having me. Great to be with you in this in this format Maria. |
| 1:03.0 | Love it and joining us for the first time on in the big is Hansi Lo Wang |
| 1:07.9 | National Correspondent for NPR. Welcome to the show Hansi. Thank you for having |
| 1:12.0 | me. all right so |
| 1:14.0 | first we're gonna take a moment |
| 1:18.0 | to just take a pause to think about |
| 1:22.0 | how much suffering there's going on right now in terms of hate crimes. |
| 1:25.0 | You know, we were, all of us were in different places over the weekend when we saw the news that there was yet another hate crime in our country this time an attack |
| 1:33.9 | by white supremacist on a synagogue in San Diego the last day of Passover. |
| 1:39.2 | So just before we jump in to talk about the census, Dorian, what's kind of going on for you today? |
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