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Ayanna Pressley: “Whether you're talking about the GI Bill where black…”

Featuring: Ayanna Pressley, Democratic | U.S. House Massachusetts, 7th Congressional District

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Pressley, Advocates Call Congress to Advance Transformative Reparative Justice Agenda

Published | Video Starts at 03:54

This is a movement to demand redress, to right wrongs, to compensate, to compensate for the harm and loss that we have experienced. And there is actually there are evidence of this government already having done this. Whether you're talking about the GI Bill where black veterans, however, were, 1 million of black veterans were denied access to that. whether you're talking about Americans that were victimized in the building of the nuclear bomb, whether you're talking about coal miners and black lung, we have done work as a government in redress and repair. (03:54–04:05)

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