Ayanna Pressley actually said...

"Banking deserts and the implicit and explicit exclusionary practices of financial institutions are widening the racial wealth gap."

"I think it has everything to do with divestment, under-investment, policy violence."

"It is no coincidence that the urban heat island effect is more pronounced in the same neighborhoods that have been historically redlined."

"Absolutely, I would call it racism, segregation, environmental degradation, demonization, dehumanization, leading to sacrifice zones and disparate environmental effects to people of color in particula..."