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Bobby Rush: “I must be quite frank, I sit here as an angry, black American male.”

On the recordMarch 25, 2015
I must be quite frank, I sit here as an angry, black American male.
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Bobby Rush
Democratic · Illinois

Editor's note · Context

Rush expresses frustration over the inequities in spectrum auctions affecting minority businesses.

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