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That's What She Said with Sarah Spain

Ibtihaj Muhammad

That's What She Said with Sarah Spain

ESPN Radio

Sports

3.93.1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2020

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Sarah talks to Olympic fencer Ibtihaj Muhammad about becoming the first female Muslim to win a medal and to wear a hijab while competing for the United States, how a Barbie was designed after her, and a harrowing story of being arresting amidst the protests in LA. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:04.4

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0:08.6

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0:24.0

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0:30.8

Well, that's what she said. Welcome to That's what she said. Conversations with interesting people

0:40.8

from the world of sports, music, comedy, and more. Talking about their lives, careers,

0:45.4

successes, and failures. My name is Ipsi has Mohammed. I'm an Olympic medalist, entrepreneur

0:51.0

and activist, and my big dilemma is racial inequality. Oh, but if I could fix this,

0:58.0

and I'll tell you my experiences on social media have made it all the more clear to me how

1:02.3

much of a problem is this. I mean, of course, you can watch the news at any given day, particularly

1:06.1

right now with the civil unrest in our country. But really, I had surrounded myself with these

1:11.6

smart and evolved and thoughtful people for so long that it wasn't until I started doing this

1:15.7

job and being on internet spaces so often with strangers and with trolls and awful people

1:21.1

that I realized truly how how pervasive and awful the issue of racial inequality and racism

1:27.3

is in our country and how many want it to remain that way. I think I thought it was the far

1:32.4

this outskirts, but the way some of the ideas that are more pervasive than flat out obvious racism

1:38.8

affect people of color in our country and the way people would like to keep it that way because

1:42.8

the way it benefits them has been really eye-opening. And ever since this latest civil unrest,

1:47.4

I've tasked myself with educating myself. So instead of being able to fix your dilemma,

1:52.4

I'm going to say that the only fix is for a large number of people, predominantly white people,

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