ITT Sound Off: This Is the Moment
In The Thick
Futuro Media
4.9 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 12 February 2021
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Maria is back to join Julio in her first ITT Sound Off in 2021! They break down the latest with the Senate impeachment trial for former president Donald Trump and process just how horrifying the attack at the Capitol on Jan. 6th was. Maria and Julio also discuss the devastating reaches of white supremacy in the country from the Biden administration's deportation of Haitian immigrants to the recent wave of hate incidents and violence against the Asian-American community. ITT Staff Picks: - One of the breakout stars of the Senate Impeachment trial was Rep. Stacey Plaskett of the U.S. Virgin Islands. She opened her presentation by saying: “I’ve learned throughout my life that preparation and truth can carry you far, can allow you to speak truth to power. I’ve learned that as a young Black girl growing up in the projects in Brooklyn, a housing community on St. Croix, sent to the most unlikeliest of settings, and now as an adult woman representing an island territory speaking to the U.S. Senate.” - “Anti-Blackness is baked into the immigration system and ICE has merely operationalized it. In fact, the federal agency has spent Black History Month deporting Black immigrants," writes Tina Vasquez for Prism, "Since Feb. 1, over 500 Haitians have been deported in an effort to deport 1,800 to Haiti by mid-February.” - Michelle Kim writes about the Anti-Asian Hate Crimes in the Medium Awaken Blog: “White supremacy wants us to remember the unhealed wounds we inflicted on each other, historical and ongoing anti-Blackness in the Asian community and anti-Asian incidents perpetrated by Black individuals, but not the stories of solidarity that have existed in equal measure, but are somehow left out of our history books and media coverage.” Photo credit: AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite
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| 0:27.8 | Hey, what's up? |
| 0:35.8 | Welcome to In the Big. |
| 0:36.8 | I'm Maria Ynojosa. |
| 0:38.8 | And I'm Julio Riccalo-Varela and this is ITT Sound off and oh wow, you're back on Friday. |
| 0:46.8 | And back on Fridays. |
| 0:48.8 | Yay. |
| 0:49.8 | Back to to be back. |
| 0:50.8 | But you know, before we do our first serious topic, you know, I think we just should do a little |
| 0:54.6 | check in because because it's been a while since I've done an ITT Sound off. |
| 0:58.7 | I mean, last year. |
| 1:01.1 | So we've been recording our weekly round tables, but it's, you know, I love doing our Friday |
| 1:04.9 | shows and just, you know, being able to drop even more F-bombs. |
| 1:08.9 | So how are you doing? |
| 1:10.2 | What's your temperature check, Julio? |
| 1:11.8 | First of all, I want to shout out to me looking. |
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