ITT EXTRA: Heroic Actions
In The Thick
Futuro Media
4.9 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 28 September 2018
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
During the nomination process for the next Supreme Court Justice, on Thursday we witnessed courage when Dr. Christine Blasey Ford gave her testimony against Brett Kavanaugh. Maria and Julio reflect on what this moment meant for women and all victims of sexual abuse in the country. ITT Staff Picks
- Check out this thread of tweets by sociologist Nicole Bedera on adolescent sexual violence.
- From Vox: the Kavanaugh hearing showed how little has changed since Anita Hill.
- The Kavanaugh hearing might mark American voters for decades, according to The Atlantic.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey In The Thic listeners, today's In The Thick is an emotional conversation about rape and sexual assault. |
| 0:06.5 | If these are your triggers, please be advised. |
| 0:09.5 | Hello everyone, welcome to In the Thicke, I'mieno Hossa. |
| 0:13.0 | And I'm Holy Orical Loberila, and this is I T-T-X-S. |
| 0:17.0 | So the voice of what many are considering is an American Patriot. |
| 0:22.0 | I am here today not because I want to be. |
| 0:25.0 | I am terrified. |
| 0:27.0 | I am here because I believe it is my civic duty |
| 0:30.0 | to tell you what happened to me |
| 0:32.0 | while Brett Kavanaugh and I were in high school. |
| 0:35.0 | I don't have all the answers and I don't remember as much as I would like to. |
| 0:40.0 | But the details about that night that bring me here today are the ones I will never forget. |
| 0:47.1 | They have been seared into my memory and have haunted me episodically as an adult. Those are the words of Dr. Christine Blasy Ford in her opening statement. |
| 0:57.0 | That quote, I'm not here because I want to be, I'm terrified was one of the things that I did put up on my Twitter because it's like the way we all feel. |
| 1:06.0 | Like we don't want to be having to discuss this. We're a little terrified, but you know, then Dr. Christine Blasy Ford just there was just no way that you you couldn't be moved |
| 1:18.0 | by what she was saying. No I mean I think that's the big thing of all this. |
| 1:22.6 | I mean, I've watched it with our In The Thick Producers all day. |
| 1:27.5 | And her testimony, I still feel it. And I think in the 24-hour news cycle you kind of have to remind yourself |
| 1:36.8 | that she started this hearing because I actually believe that that part of this hearing is almost becoming invisible again. |
| 1:46.6 | Like everything she was afraid of is actually playing out Maria. |
| 1:50.4 | It is because you know on Thursday night you know suddenly the whole tone |
| 1:55.9 | shifted and what I guess some of the things that I'm I wanted to continue to |
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