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Summer Lee: “How can Americans be growing up in a country with such abundance and grow up with such fear of each other and of its own…”

On the recordSeptember 5, 2019
How can Americans be growing up in a country with such abundance and grow up with such fear of each other and of its own government?
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Summer Lee
Democratic · Pennsylvania

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Discussing the fear and anxiety in communities due to government actions.

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