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Hakeem Jeffries: “The Congressional Black Caucus strongly and uniformly…”

Featuring: Hakeem Jeffries, Democratic | U.S. House New York, 8th Congressional District

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And we believe that the silence of these institutions is. Is complicity and we will not stand for it. At the same period of time, The Congressional Black Caucus strongly and uniformly opposed the so called SCORE act, resulting in Republicans having to pull the SCORE act from the floor. And we will continue to. To oppose it. We will continue to stand with the NAACP in encouraging athletes in our community to look elsewhere until these racially gerrymandered maps in the south are reversed, buried in the ground, never to rise again. (11:07–11:24)

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Asserts that the Congressional Black Caucus opposed the SCORE act, leading to its withdrawal from the floor.

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