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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: “Racism is economic.”

Featuring: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Democratic | U.S. House, New York, District 14

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Published | Video Starts at 09:51

But it's white people talking to other white people about race. And that, I think, is a lot of what we're going to need in addition to a whole lot of other work, because Racism is economic. and we need to. A lot of the long term work that we have to do on a lot of different issues is educational. (09:51–09:53)

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Asserts that racism has economic implications.

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