From 2019: Hyper Visible and Invisible

In The Thick

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🗓️ 21 March 2023

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Our Best of ITT series continues with this roundtable from 2019. Maria and Julio are joined by Shamira Ibrahim, culture writer on race, identity and politics, and Margari Hill, co-founder and executive director of the Muslim Anti-Racism Collaborative, to discuss how the intersecting identities of being a Black Muslim woman lead to anti-Blackness both within the Muslim community and in the United States at large.

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0:00.0	Hello, in the thick family, it's Julio Ricallo-Arela here.
0:13.4	So we're continuing our best of in the thick series to celebrate seven amazing years
0:19.9	of our show with an episode that is still super relevant today.
0:25.9	To conversation with writers and organizers Shamira Ibrahim and Margari Hill about the multi-layered
0:34.1	racism faced by black Muslim women in the United States.
0:38.4	This episode that you're about to hear originally aired in 2019, shortly after Representative
0:44.5	Ilhan Omar was elected to Congress, and we talked about the consistent attacks that
0:50.8	Representative Omar was facing from Republicans and then President Donald Trump.
0:56.4	We also get into the anti-black racism that black Muslim women are faced with, both within
1:01.8	the Muslim community and more broadly in the United States.
1:05.8	So our team wanted to reshare this conversation because we're seeing now, right here in 2023,
1:12.2	how Ilhan Omar, who still remains the only black Muslim woman in Congress, is still facing
1:18.8	attacks from her colleagues.
1:21.0	Just last month, Republican lawmakers voted to remove Representative Omar, who came to this
1:26.4	country as a refugee from Somalia from the House Foreign Affairs Committee.
1:31.0	They voted to remove her from that.
1:33.6	Republicans said that it was due to past comments that she made about Israel that they deemed
1:38.4	to be anti-Semitic.
1:40.3	House Democrats, who all voted against the resolution, argued that the decision was essentially
1:45.6	political revenge, and the powerful speeches on the House floor from Representatives Alexandria
1:51.8	Ocasio-Cortez and Cory Bush specifically called out the targeting of black Muslim women.
1:59.5	So needless to say, this all speaks to today's political climate with Kevin McCarthy and
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