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Cori Bush: “Racialized violence is a policy choice. We can choose to subsidize it, or we can choose to stop it.”

On the recordOctober 20, 2021
Racialized violence is a policy choice. We can choose to subsidize it, or we can choose to stop it.
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Cori Bush
Democratic · Missouri

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Bush argues that systemic violence against Black lives is a deliberate policy decision.

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