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Rashida Tlaib: “None of this discrimination that we are talking about today is explicitly spelled out in some sort of company handbook…”

On the recordFebruary 23, 2021
None of this discrimination that we are talking about today is explicitly spelled out in some sort of company handbook, but it is all implicit and cloaked in, like, proxies and codewords and misguided assumptions.
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Rashida Tlaib
Democratic · Michigan

Editor's note · Context

Tlaib highlights implicit discrimination in housing practices affecting Black and Brown communities.

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