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Rashida Tlaib: “I grew up in the most beautiful, blackest city in the world…”

Featuring: Rashida Tlaib, Democratic | U.S. House Michigan, District 12

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Rep. Rashida Tlaib on Growing Up in Detroit, Holocaust Comments and Fighting Poverty

Published | Video Starts at 04:24

And I mean, do you feel like there's a way to talk about the history of that part of the world that people here in this country that maybe don't fully understand it, could grasp it more? Absolutely. I mean, I think for me, I grew up in the most beautiful, blackest city in the world in the country, which is city of Detroit. And every corner is A reminder of the civil rights movement. And I, through my African American teachers, through, you know, I call my black mothers on the block I grew up in, they, you know, constantly told me about the pain of oppression. (04:24–04:30)

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