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Raphael Warnock: “I have tried to translate my protest into public policy, my…”

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Raphael Warnock Discusses Activism, Governance, and Peacebuilding at US Institute of Peace Event

Published | Video Starts at 09:57

I'm not mad at them, and they were just doing their job. But I do find it ironic, and I laugh sometimes when I'm walking through that same rotunda on my way to my office. I have tried to translate my protest into public policy, my agitation into legislation. And I'm trying to do that in such a way that even as I occupy the halls of power, that I don't lose the sensibilities of an activist, that edginess. (09:57–10:06)

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