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Jason Rojas: “Our levels of segregation, economic and racial actually are…”

Featuring: Jason Rojas, Democratic | Connecticut House of Representatives, 9th Assembly District

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Connecticut State Representative Jason Rojas Discusses Housing, Democracy, and Women's Rights

Published | Video Starts at 12:17

It's really about all of us coming together. And you asked about, you know, the kind of the health of our country. And I've been saying for a while now that Our levels of segregation, economic and racial actually are at the core of the social dysfunction that we see in our country. Because we think we understand each other's humanity as a person of color or as a white person. But that's not quite possible when you don't have a shared, lived experience. (12:17–12:24)

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Asserts that economic and racial segregation are central to social dysfunction in the U.S.

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