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Cori Bush: “It causes harm to people, especially people of color, and so to call it out as if it does not matter, it does, because…”

On the recordMarch 17, 2021
It causes harm to people, especially people of color, and so to call it out as if it does not matter, it does, because we're talking about lives at stake.
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Cori Bush
Democratic · Missouri

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Bush stresses the real harm caused by dismissing harmful rhetoric.

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