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Summer Lee: we are all speaking now to the have's because the have-not's are not in the room.

On the recordSeptember 9, 2020
we are all speaking now to the have's because the have-not's are not in the room.
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Summer Lee
Democratic · Pennsylvania

Editor's note · Context

Emphasizing the absence of marginalized voices in discussions.

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