Charlottesville: One Year Later
In The Thick
Futuro Media
4.9 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 21 August 2018
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
A year after the tragedy of Charlottesville and just days after the Unite The Right 2 Rally, Julio talks with returning ITT guest Mike German, a former FBI agent who once infiltrated white supremacy groups undercover. ITT Staff Picks
The Atlantic on how white nationalists are winning.
Unite The Right 2 could be called a failure, but it's not time to claim victory, according to a former NYPD officer.
Pop Culture Collab puts the focus on white nationalism, rather than white supremacists, in this essay.
Wired's 2011 report on the FBI's racial profiling mapping tool.
Check out last year's rebroadcast of Mike's original interview with ITT following the Unite The Right 2017 rally.
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| 0:00.0 | These skin heads and other violent white supremacist can kill dozens of people a year, |
| 0:05.7 | but when government has these policies, they end up killing and harming much more populations than individual terrorists can harm. |
| 0:15.0 | Hey, welcome to the in the thick of podcast about politics, race and culture from a POC perspective. |
| 0:24.0 | I'm Juhu Rhella here hosting on my own today, |
| 0:27.9 | as my amazing co-host Mariano Hosa is out reporting in Texas. |
| 0:33.2 | Joining us from our Harlem studio is Mike German, |
| 0:37.2 | retired FBI agent and fellow |
| 0:39.2 | with the Brennan Center for Justice, Liberty, |
| 0:41.5 | and National Security Program. |
| 0:43.8 | Welcome back, Michael. |
| 0:45.7 | How are you? |
| 0:46.3 | Very good. |
| 0:47.3 | Thanks for having me back. |
| 0:48.3 | So Mike, the first time you were on In The Thick in 2016, we had this amazing conversation. Maria and I got so |
| 0:57.3 | intrigued about the rise of the white supremacist movement and at that time you told |
| 1:01.8 | us your experience as an undercover FBI agent |
| 1:05.4 | amongst all these white supremacist. Now two years later I wanted to talk to you about |
| 1:10.4 | what has changed within the movement because it's totally up your alley right? |
| 1:14.8 | That sounds great, right? |
| 1:16.8 | But before we get into the weeds, let's break down the terms that are being used. |
| 1:21.0 | So the first time you're on in the thick, you mentioned that the white supremacist |
| 1:24.8 | movement is like an onion with so many layers of different groups, including Christian identity groups, |
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