ITT Sound Off: The Hardest Hit
In The Thick
Futuro Media
4.9 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 10 April 2020
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Julio and guest co-host Jamilah King talk more about how the coronavirus pandemic is disproportionately affecting communities of color. They also discuss the latest with the 2020 Election including, Senator Bernie Sanders’s exiting the race. And, they breakdown the Wisconsin primary, which was held this week despite statewide stay-at-home orders. We want to keep hearing from you and how you’re COVID Coping. Tell us how you're finding joy and hope in these unprecedented times. Call us to leave a voicemail on the In The Thick hotline at (505) 226-8973 or send us a voice memo via email to inthethick@futuromediagroup.org. ITT Staff Picks: - All around the country, the coronavirus pandemic seems to be hitting people of color the hardest. Ibram X. Kendi shares his experience and analysis via The Atlantic. - Wisconsin held a primary election on Tuesday, but the Wisconsin State Journal is anticipating a “cascade” of lawsuits as voters faced an impossible choice: prioritizing health or their right to participate in democracy. - Research shows the coronavirus came to New York mainly from Europe, not Asia, and had begun to circulate by mid-February, even though the first case wasn’t confirmed until weeks later via The New York Times.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Dear listener, a quick favor. We're conducting an audience survey and we'd be really |
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| 0:12.1 | ERX.org slash futuro to take our survey today. |
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| 0:23.0 | Grasias. |
| 0:25.0 | Hey welcome to In The Thick, I'm Julio Rico |
| 0:30.0 | Varela. |
| 0:31.0 | And I'm Jimmy Leking, and this is I T. Sound Up. Yeah, so Maria is still focusing on healing |
| 0:37.4 | but I know she's feeling better. You probably have seen her tweets. She's looking herself. She's |
| 0:41.9 | feeling herself. So she will very likely be back next week for the next set of ITTs. |
| 0:48.0 | But in the meantime, we get to have Jamila King again. |
| 0:52.7 | I love time with Jamila. |
| 0:53.8 | I'm always happy to hang out with the fans, |
| 0:56.4 | so always happy to be here. |
| 0:57.9 | So let's get to it with our first topic. |
| 1:00.4 | We're gonna start with an update on the coronavirus pandemic. |
| 1:06.0 | As of this recording, there are now over 1.6 million cases worldwide |
| 1:12.0 | and over 100,000 reported deaths in the United States, the |
| 1:16.6 | number of reported cases is still rising with over 460,000 infected and over 17,000 deaths. |
| 1:24.3 | New York City is also still the epicenter of the virus, |
| 1:27.8 | and on Wednesday, data released by state officials |
| 1:30.2 | showed that the death rate of Latinos and black New Yorkers is about twice that of. shows the Midwest and the South. Black Americans comprise the majority of cases and deaths. |
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