If you are a kid from a working class or poor background, or comes from poverty like I have, and if you get messages over and over and over again that you cannot exist in this society, that you cannot make it, that this society is racist and is sexist and is xenophobic and is homophobic and all of these different things, then you--if you take in those messages, you will not be motivated to succeed.
Tlaib discusses the negative societal messages affecting poor and working-class youth.
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