ITT Sound Off: Blind Spots
In The Thick
Futuro Media
4.9 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 20 September 2019
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Julio and guest co-host Jamilah King sound off over the week's news about abusive men in power. They talk about the multiple instances of brown/blackface by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau (and his ridiculous apology), the charges against wealthy Democrat donor Ed Buck for operating a drug house, administering methamphetamine, and battery; and the sexual assault and rape allegations against NFL player Antonio Brown. ITT Staff Picks:
- Wealthy Democratic donor Ed Buck finally arrested after third man ODs in his home, via The Root
- The Time's piece exposing Justin Trudeau for wearing brownface at 2001 "Arabian Nights" party while he taught at a private school
- From Steubenville to Antonio Brown, from Dave Zirin's Edge of Sports podcast
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| 0:24.0 | Hey I T. F. |
| 0:27.0 | This is producer North Saudi. |
| 0:29.0 | So in today's episode, Julio and Jamila talk about the National Football League and the sexual abuse allegations |
| 0:34.6 | against Antonio Brown. |
| 0:36.7 | So the latest news is that Brown was actually caught from the New England Patriots, which |
| 0:41.2 | we didn't know at the time that we recorded this. |
| 0:43.7 | Welcome to In The Think, I'm Julio Riccalo Barella. |
| 0:47.7 | And I'm Jamila King, and this is ITT Soundoff. |
| 0:51.7 | And guess what? I am actually looking at you because we are in the Harlem studio |
| 0:57.4 | media together in real time. |
| 1:00.4 | So good to see Julio. |
| 1:01.6 | Oh, it's always good to see you. So let's get to it with our first topic. |
| 1:07.0 | So on Wednesday, Time magazine published a photo of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at a |
| 1:16.7 | Arabian Nights theme party. Arabian Nights theme like no, just start there. |
| 1:24.2 | And so the photo shows him dressed in an offensive costume. |
| 1:29.6 | There's no other way to describe it. |
| 1:31.2 | That included brown face. You can see him with a white turban and his |
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