Hope in Hopeless Times
In The Thick
Futuro Media
4.9 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 22 February 2022
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Maria and Julio are joined by ITT All-Star Wajahat Ali, columnist for The Daily Beast, to discuss his new book, “Go Back to Where You Came From: And Other Helpful Recommendations on How to Become American.” They get into disparities in reactions to white violence versus nonwhite violence, the upcoming midterms, and reflect on who is seen as American in this country.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey dear listener, a quick favor. |
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| 0:22.8 | Gracias. |
| 0:23.8 | Hey, hey, hey, it's Maria here and it's Julio. |
| 0:35.3 | So for today's episode, we're going to share an interview that we recorded last month |
| 0:39.0 | in January with our very dear ITT All Star Wajahat Ali. |
| 0:43.9 | Yeah, he is just great conversation. |
| 0:46.6 | Yeah, it was such a great conversation. |
| 0:49.2 | We get deep, we really break it down with his new book and the things we're always |
| 0:55.6 | talking about on in the thick from identity, belonging, a little white supremacy because |
| 1:01.0 | you can't have an in the thick conversation with that white supremacy and the hope we |
| 1:05.0 | have, right? |
| 1:06.0 | All of us, we still have hope in American democracy, which is still a thing for me. |
| 1:11.9 | We were hopeful. |
| 1:12.9 | I think when we recorded this in January because it was kind of the beginning of the year, |
| 1:17.1 | the thing is is that the failure of bipartisanship is kind of still very present and we talked |
| 1:22.5 | about that and of course, the threat of this democracy surviving. |
| 1:27.8 | So everything we talked about with Waj, you know, was right on time. |
| 1:32.4 | Right. |
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