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Cherelle Parker: “My grandparents raised me. Mommy, a domestic worker from…”

Featuring: Cherelle Parker, Democratic | Mayor of Philadelphia | Pennsylvania

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Cherelle Parker delivers inaugural address as Philadelphia mayor

Published | Video Starts at 19:21

What do you mean? I mean, I want to say it out loud that I was born to a single teenage mother without my biological father present in my life. My grandparents raised me. Mommy, a domestic worker from Manning, South Carolina. Daddy, a disabled Navy veteran from Accomac County, Virginia, who received public assistance. You heard me on the trail talk about that colored money in books. Some people whisper to me, well, what does she mean when she says the public money? (19:21–19:39)

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Asserts that Cherelle Parker was raised by her grandparents, with her grandmother being a domestic worker and her grandfather a disabled Navy veteran on public assistance.

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