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On the recordMarch 10, 2021
How dare you say the black lives matter black people do not understand old-fashioned families? Despite some of the issues, some of the things that you have put forward that I have heard out of your mouth in the Oversight Committee, in your own district, we have been able to keep our families alive for over 400 years and the assault on our families to not have black lives or not even have black families.
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Stacey Plaskett
Democratic · Virgin Islands
Source
msnbc.com

Editor's note · Context

Plaskett responds to Grothman's comments about Black Lives Matter and families in the Black community.

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