ITT Sound Off: Capitol Coup
In The Thick
Futuro Media
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🗓️ 8 January 2021
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
We are back with the first Sound Off of 2021! Julio is joined by guest co-host Jamilah King, reporter at Mother Jones and host of The Mother Jones Podcast. They process this week's events, including the mob attack by Trump supporters at the U.S. Capitol and the Georgia runoff elections. ITT Staff Picks: - In his latest for The Atlantic, ITT All-Star Adam Serwer writes, "But in fact, multiracial democracy in America is young and fragile, just a few generations old, and the insistence by a largely white political party that the victories of its multiracial counterpart are illegitimate is deeply familiar." - Derecka Purnell writes that this week's events in Washington D.C. reveal "how power works in the United States, and for whom" in this piece for The Guardian. - Astead Herndon and Rick Rojas write about how much President-elect Joe Biden owes Black voters "who have long been the backbone of the Democratic Party" in this piece for The New York Times. Photo credit: AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana
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| 0:25.0 | Welcome to In The Thick, I'm Julio Nicaragua, |
| 0:30.0 | and I'm Jamila King and this is I T sound off. |
| 0:35.0 | That's right. Wow. I'm so excited to have you. |
| 0:39.0 | Jemila, guest co-hosting with me during the month of all the Fridays all the January Fridays and I'm so |
| 0:45.6 | excited hoolio if the first week of January is any indication we're gonna have a |
| 0:49.2 | lot to talk about every Friday I know and Maria for people who are wondering Maria is taking some time off she's |
| 0:55.0 | working on a special project so we're excited about that but welcome Jamila and let's get to it our first topic which is no surprise we're |
| 1:06.2 | going to be getting into the chaos or rather as I would like to call it a |
| 1:10.4 | violent attempted coup by white supremacist that happened on Capitol Hill on Wednesday, |
| 1:17.1 | as Congress was actually convening to certify President-elect Joe Biden's victory. |
| 1:21.9 | I was actually watching the C-SPAN |
| 1:23.2 | Jamila, you know, just covering it and then all of a sudden there was all this |
| 1:27.7 | confusion and I was like what's going on? So what started as a protest outside the Capitol actually became an insurrection, a mob attack, a siege. |
| 1:40.0 | There's so many words, you know, the hundreds of Trump supporters scale the walls and the barricades around the capital building. |
| 1:48.0 | They fought back against police, they stormed into the building, there's videos of windows being broken, people |
| 1:55.8 | carrying Trump banners and Confederate flags. Some people are shocked by that. |
| 2:00.4 | I'm kind of like, this is America. |
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