Hey, welcome to in the thick of Friday edition.

I'm Maria Inu Hosa.

And I'm Juho Ricalo Varela,

and this is ITT Extra with a little special location for you, Maria.

I'm in a hotel, which is why it probably sounds like I'm in a hotel so

today we're gonna take on the issue of Dominican-born author Juno Diaz

and accusations that basically have come against him.

Yeah.

But before we get to that,

morning news broke that there was yet another school shooting

near Houston, Texas, Santa Fe, there are reports of multiple fatalities.

Don't have a lot of information.

I mean, what could we say except for the extraordinary heartbreak of young people killing each other in the United States of America.

Julio, I'm, I mean, I don't, what else can you say, but I am thinking, okay, what's going to happen with these students and the parkland students and

is there going to be something that ties them together from Florida to Texas

to kind of unexpected states in terms of young people and anti gun activity

potentially. I read a tweet. Here we go. We're listening. Here's another town

that we knew nothing about Santa Fe, Texas and now it's going to be part of the national and world

conversation. So my kids are in high school today and the first thing that came through my head was, are they safe?

The truth is that it could happen anywhere.

It could happen in terms of, you know, I'm a professor,

so I think about that when I'm teaching.

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