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Summer Lee: “I urge Congress to account for and repair systemic racism rather than to ignore it and embody it.”

On the recordFebruary 16, 2021
I urge Congress to account for and repair systemic racism rather than to ignore it and embody it.
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Summer Lee
Democratic · Pennsylvania

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Calls for Congress to address systemic racism and pursue reparative justice.

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