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On the recordJune 26, 2024
When we see institutions of power, and that is reflected in almost any institutional organization of power, and when we even just try to have the basic acknowledgement that it would be good to encourage not an unreflective body, not unreflective workforce, but a workforce that barely even reaches the proportion of representation of what every day Americans look like, that somehow anti-White discrimination, anti-male discrimination, anti-straight discrimination, anti-cisgender discrimination.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Democratic · New York

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Ocasio-Cortez critiques the lack of diversity in Congress and its implications.

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