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Jamie Raskin: “Until just the last 50 years ago or so, our laws and institutions were explicitly racist, explicitly discriminatory.”

On the recordJuly 27, 2020
Until just the last 50 years ago or so, our laws and institutions were explicitly racist, explicitly discriminatory.
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Jamie Raskin
Democratic · Maryland

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Raskin reflects on the historical racism in U.S. laws and institutions.

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