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On the recordJune 16, 2020
We have not only failed lower income and Black and Brown communities with regards to this virus, we failed them long before anybody uttered the word coronavirus or COVID-19 or knew what social distancing was.
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Joseph P. Kennedy III
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Kennedy discusses systemic failures affecting marginalized communities before and during the pandemic.

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