ITT Sound Off: The Backlash
In The Thick
Futuro Media
4.9 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 15 October 2021
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Julio and guest co-host Jamilah King, deputy inequality editor at Buzzfeed News, give an immigration update, including Maria Hinojosa’s reporting in Mississippi for Latino USA which followed up on the massive ICE workplace raid in 2019. They also talk about NFL coach Jon Gruden’s resignation in light of emails revealing misogynistic, racist and homophobic comments. And, they debrief the controversy around Dave Chappelle’s recent comedy special on Netflix. ITT Staff Picks: - Be sure to listen to Latino USA’s recent episode, where Maria Hinojosa and producer Reynaldo Leaños Jr. traveled back to Mississippi this year to follow up on their reporting about the massive immigration raid that took place in 2019. - On the controversy surrounding former Las Vegas Raiders head coach Jon Gruden, Jemele Hill writes that the NFL “will never fix its own corrosive, institutionalized racism without more fundamental change,” for The Atlantic. - For GQ, poet and author Saeed Jones writes about the hurt and betrayal he felt on watching Dave Chappelle make transphobic and homophobic comments in his new Netflix special, “The Closer.” Photo credit: Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP
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| 0:00.0 | Hey dear listener, a quick favor. |
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| 0:22.8 | Thank you. |
| 0:25.8 | Hey, welcome to NEC, I'm Julio Ricardo Varela. |
| 0:37.2 | And I'm Jamila King and this is ITT Sound off. |
| 0:40.5 | Yes, it's Friday and Jamila is here guest co-hosting Maria's still doing the professional |
| 0:47.1 | Hispanic tour. |
| 0:48.9 | NEC Heritage Month is over as a Friday, but Maria still has professional Hispanic appearances. |
| 0:54.6 | So hey Jamila. |
| 0:55.6 | Hey Julio, always happy to be here. |
| 0:57.8 | All right, so let's get to it with our first topic, which is an immigration update. |
| 1:02.1 | So on Tuesday, the Department of Homeland Security issued a memo to essentially end workplace |
| 1:08.7 | raids and mass arrests of immigrant workers. |
| 1:12.4 | So the Biden administration has said they want to focus on businesses and employers that |
| 1:16.8 | violate labor laws and exploit undocumented workers rather than targeting workers themselves. |
| 1:22.6 | Well, that would make sense, thank you. |
| 1:25.9 | But it's important to know that under the former Trump administration, we actually saw |
| 1:30.8 | mass raids in workplaces ramp up, including in 2019, where immigration and customs enforcement |
| 1:39.2 | also known as ICE arrested around 680 people at seven food processing and poultry plants |
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