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Joseph P. Kennedy III: “COVID didn't create the racial disparities that we see today. It shined a bright light and exposed the underlying…”

On the recordJune 15, 2020
COVID didn't create the racial disparities that we see today. It shined a bright light and exposed the underlying inequities of our system that many have known to be true for a very long time.
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Joseph P. Kennedy III
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Kennedy discusses how COVID-19 highlighted existing racial disparities in society.

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