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In The Thick

Not Just a Georgia Thing

In The Thick

Futuro Media

News, Politics

4.91.9K Ratings

🗓️ 14 December 2022

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Julio is joined by Anjali Enjeti, author and co-founder of the Georgia chapter of They See Blue, and Anoa Changa, journalist and editor at NewsOne, to unpack the results of the Georgia Senate runoff election, and what it signals about party dynamics in the state and across the country. They get into voting issues in Georgia, including barriers to voting, the impact of organizing and voter outreach, and what we can expect in the next Senate session.

ITT Staff Picks:

  • Anoa Changa writes about her experience trying to vote in the Georgia runoff election and how a new state law, SB 202, has impacted the voting process in this piece for NewsOne.

  • “Thus, not only do Southern voters face serious barriers to voting, but GOP gerrymandered congressional and state legislative districts have reduced the value of their votes,” writes Anjali Enjeti about the barriers that Southern voters, especially Black and brown voters, face at the polls in this op-ed for the Los Angeles Times.

  • Matthew Brown writes about the racist history of the Georgia runoff election system, and how it was created to “dilute Black voting power,” in this piece for The Washington Post.

Photo credit: AP Photo/Brynn Anderson, File

Transcript

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up the iron by these lies.

0:44.9

From futuro media and PRX, it's in the thick podcast about politics, race and culture.

0:50.6

I'm Julio Ricardo Varela and I'm solo hosting today as Mariano Rosa is a way reporting.

0:57.8

And I'm joined by two fabulous guests to get into everything Georgia.

1:03.6

So from the wonderful city of Atlanta, is Anjali and Jedi, co-founder of AC Blues Georgia

1:10.8

chapter, which is a grassroots organization for South Asian Democrats, great to have you

1:16.9

back, Anjali.

1:17.9

Thank you Julio.

1:18.9

I'm excited to be here.

1:20.9

Yeah.

1:21.9

Also, from the fabulous city of Atlanta, is Anoa Chunga, journalist and editor at News

1:27.9

One.

1:28.9

Welcome back Anoa.

1:29.9

Thank you for having me and I'm here with my favorite people Julio, Anjali.

1:34.0

This is exciting.

1:35.0

Oh wow.

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