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Maxine Waters: “Let me just say to the panel, if you are wondering about our frustration, it is because this issue has plagued us for so…”

On the recordNovember 19, 2019
Let me just say to the panel, if you are wondering about our frustration, it is because this issue has plagued us for so long, and we are watching the Black banks, in particular, that are literally going out of business to the point where--I said 18, but the other day, I heard 16.
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Maxine Waters
Democratic · California

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Waters expresses frustration over the decline of Black banks.

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