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On the recordSeptember 9, 2019
I just want to say I'm very disturbed as we perpetuate the fiction that we live in a meritocracy.
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Ayanna Pressley
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Pressley criticizes the notion of meritocracy amidst systemic inequalities.

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