10/21/2019
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"Today I am here to discuss an issue I care very deeply about, that has been ignored for far too long."
"This pandemic has made clear that the ongoing discrimination of the Freedmen descendants can literally mean the difference between life and death."
"We will stand by the rights promised to Freedmen and the treaties that guaranteed those rights over a century ago."
"The Freedmen were Black individuals who were enslaved by five formerly slave holding tribal nations."