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On the recordJune 13, 2024
He is a conservative, but he happened to adopt a 2-year-old Ethiopian. He is not a fan of Trump, so people started turning on him in his own church and his own community. He said: ``The racism was grotesque. One church member asked my wife why we couldn't adopt from Norway rather than Ethiopia.'' Shout-out to the former President for that one. ``A teacher at the school asked my son if we had purchased his sister for a `loaf of bread.' We later learned that there were coaches and teachers who used racial slurs to describe the few Black students at the school. There were terrible incidents of peer racism, including a student telling my daughter that slavery was good''---- The Acting CHAIR. The time of the gentleman has expired. Ms. McCLELLAN. Mr. Chair, I yield an additional 15 seconds to the gentleman from Washington.
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