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On the recordApril 2, 2008
The fact that you try to say that I should be supporting Barack Obama simply because, you know, we share the same ethnicity, I wouldn't say to someone else who happens to be the same ethnicities as Hillary Clinton where she the one there that should make -- should change just because of their color.
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Gregory Meeks
Democratic · New York

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Gregory Meeks discusses the unfairness of being pressured to support Barack Obama based on ethnicity.

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