The Roots of American Racism
In The Thick
Futuro Media
4.9 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 23 April 2019
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
The Mueller report dropped last week and left everyone wondering what's next? Maria and Julio are joined by Tanya Ballard Brown, 2019 Nieman fellow at Harvard University, and Adam Serwer, staff writer at The Atlantic, to unpack the reactions to the report. They also delve into the deep roots of white supremacy in the U.S., and the arrest of the leader of an armed right-wing militia group that’s accused of detaining migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border.
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| 0:26.0 | If you think that the president has committed crimes, |
| 0:29.0 | then you are obligated to impeach him. |
| 0:32.0 | But... And Congress... obligated to impeach him. But in Congress the majority of both parties are incapable |
| 0:37.2 | of fulfilling their oaths to the Constitution. |
| 0:40.3 | Hey what's up welcome to in Thick. This is a podcast about politics, race, and culture |
| 0:45.6 | from a POC perspective and I would say I don't know kind of a Boston perspective since |
| 0:51.2 | we're recording in Boston. |
| 0:53.0 | So you even say what your name was? |
| 0:55.0 | Oh, my name is Maria Inahosa. |
| 0:56.0 | What's your name? |
| 0:57.0 | My name is Juho Barela. |
| 0:59.0 | And yeah, we're in Boston. |
| 1:00.0 | And we have two debut guests. |
| 1:02.0 | Oh my God, we're so excited. |
| 1:04.0 | Right here in Boston is Tanya Ballard Brown. |
| 1:06.0 | She's a 2019 Neiman fellow at Harvard. |
| 1:09.0 | She's an artist and a writer. |
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