Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I rise today because, despite our best efforts, racial redlining is still alive and well today. I come to this Chamber because racial redlining has once again reared its ugly, evil head across our Nation. Mr. Speaker, on April 21, Bloomberg published an analysis entitled ``Amazon Doesn't Consider the Race of Its Customers. Should It?'' Bloomberg explains how amazon.com discriminates against mostly African American communities nationwide by shutting them out, shutting them off from receiving its Prime free same-day delivery service. Mr. Speaker, it must be understood that mostly predominantly African American ZIP Codes in this Nation have been excluded from receiving Amazon's Prime free same-day delivery service. It must be understood, Mr. Speaker, that this is absolutely unacceptable. Amazon's vice president for global communications, Mr. Craig Berman, feebly attempted to justify this by saying that ``demographics play no role'' in the determination by which neighborhoods have access to Prime free same-day service. {time} 1630 He goes on to state that distance matters and that in terms of determining factors, close proximity to a warehouse is certainly one of the factors that they consider. Well, Mr. Speaker, on the face of it, that seemingly appears to be both logical and understandable. However, when viewed through a sharper lens, there are some glaring, flagrant inconsistencies.…”