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Gregory Meeks: “The United States was the last country to join to sanction…”

Featuring: Gregory Meeks, Democratic | U.S. House New York, 5th Congressional District

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This apartheid government who looked at black South Africans having no rights, no ability to vote, no ability to free movement. Yet The United States was the last country to join to sanction South Africa. After the rest of the world had done it. The last one, Nelson Mandela, became president of South Africa in 1994. (43:08–43:15)

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