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Cori Bush: “I just wish I would have heard it be this loud and this big push for it when we were talking about mostly Black and…”

On the recordJanuary 20, 2022
I just wish I would have heard it be this loud and this big push for it when we were talking about mostly Black and Brown people.
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Cori Bush
Democratic · Missouri

Editor's note · Context

Bush highlights the lack of advocacy for marginalized communities in incarceration discussions.

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