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John,

Ayanna Pressley is one of the strongest champions for racial justice in
Congress today.

She’s bold. She’s effective. She’s committed.

And that’s why clout-chasing Republican presidential candidates are
attacking her.

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Let me be clear: when someone calls a Black Congresswoman a leader of the
modern KKK not only are they dead wrong but they are wielding deeply
dangerous rhetoric, the kind of rhetoric that has cost Black folks their
lives.

It would be laughable if it weren’t so serious. They’re trying to stir up
animosity, seed violence, and get their faces on the news - any way they
can.

Ayanna said it best:

“It is deeply offensive. And it is dangerous. It is not that long ago that
we were besieged by images of white supremacists carrying tiki torches in
Charlottesville. It was not that long ago that a white supremacist mob
seized the Capitol, waving Confederate flags and erecting nooses on the
West Lawn of the Capitol.”

“In one of my childhood memories that is deeply embedded in that my own
ancestors and living family members have been brutalized, lynched, raped
by the Ku Klux Klan. I recall when my family member had moved into a
predominantly white cul-de-sac in the ’80s when I was a child. And we had
a cross burned in our lawn.”

“So, for me, as deeply shameful and offensive and dangerous as his words
are, he is not occupying any real estate in my mind. I remain squarely
focused on the work of undoing the centuries of harm that has precisely
been done to Black Americans and charting a path of true restorative
justice and racial justice forward.”

We’ll always call out these racist and bad faith attacks when they happen,
but we won’t be distracted.

While Republican candidates are invoking her name to fan the flames of
white supremacy, Ayanna is focused on advocating and legislating to
dismantle systems of oppression and advance racial equity.

[ [link removed] ]I’ll be standing alongside her in that fight – join me by splitting a
$5 contribution between Ayanna and I right now.



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In solidarity,

Summer Lee




 


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