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Rick Larsen: “I acknowledge that I, myself, have more work to do to understand and address these barriers, such as systemic racism…”

On the recordJuly 19, 2021
I acknowledge that I, myself, have more work to do to understand and address these barriers, such as systemic racism, that enables inequity and injustice to persist in the United States.
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Rick Larsen
Democratic · Washington

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Rick Larsen admits the need for personal growth in addressing systemic racism in aviation.

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