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Congressional Twerking and a Diaspora Discussion

Higher Learning with Van Lathan and Rachel Lindsay

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I'm a Black Woman, and I Don't Want to Be a Senator

When i was elected, i was sayin sit like, fuck ice. I never wanted to be a politician who dressed in boring black and brown clothing. And so when i continued to live my joyful, free black self, and folks don't know how to deal with that. Do you think if a white woman was torking on a handstand that it would have had a similar reaction? Absolutely not. But because i am black in doing it, and because i'm empowered indoing it, that is what upset people. Because i came into rhode island politics an outsider, not willing to conform,. Not willing to lend my platform to being quiet and acquiescing to the powers that

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