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I stand up for what is right even if it puts me in a political conundrum. Supporting Senator Sanders was one of those moments when the status quo said ‘Uh uh, bad girl.’

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It hasn’t been for a lack of trying. But we really have to analyze in a deeper way why we have these problems – at least at the state level – electing an African-American.

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I’ll never forget when I was running, when I was knocking on doors for my first office as I served as a Cleveland city councilwoman and to have older men say to me, ‘Can you do this and be a wife and a mother?’ Excuse me? Women make the world go round. We multitask… But to have that kind of condescending question asked of me in modern times.

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May 19, 2024

I’ll never forget when I was running, when I was knocking on doors for my first office as I served as a Cleveland city councilwoman and to have older men say to me, ‘Can you do this and be a wife and a mother?’ Excuse me? Women make the world go round. We multitask… But to have that kind of condescending question asked of me in modern times.

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May 19, 2024

It hasn’t been for a lack of trying. But we really have to analyze in a deeper way why we have these problems – at least at the state level – electing an African-American.

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