You are absolutely right, to denigrate, to provide false hoods or to provide stereotypes and to incite people to go against these groups, whether they're Irish or Italians or whether they're African-Americans or Latinx or LGBTQ or women or the sitting senator from California, Kamala Harris, getting in the gutter and promoting institutional racism.
Sheila Jackson Lee discusses the impact of discriminatory rhetoric and institutional racism in society, referencing Kamala Harris.
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