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Jasmine Crockett: “Thousands of black people were unjustly lynched.”

Featuring: Jasmine Crockett, Democratic | U.S. House, Texas, District 30

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Published | Video Starts at 00:27

And it's a fact that there is a violent, exclusionary, discriminatory, sexist and racist part of American history where our indigenous populations were forcibly displaced from their land. Where Thousands of black people were unjustly lynched. Where black people were denied the right to vote and they still trying to do it today. Where women needed their husband's permission to open a bank account. (00:27–00:32)

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Asserts that thousands of black people were lynched unjustly in American history.

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