Dem Rep. Delia Ramirez Goes on a Rant About How Terrible America Is, Reparations, and How America Was Founded on Racism

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RAMIREZ: “For me being an American is the ability to dream, to love, to have dissent, to be able to organize and build a kind of solidarity that recognizes the good and the bad of the formation of this country, that is willing to reckon with how we have used colonialism to harm others, especially in the western hemisphere, and begin to think about and imagine creatively what reparations look like, what building solidarity looks like, what bringing all of us together means. To be an American for me is the ability to love and also push back, the ability to be able to fight back and also build community. And to me this precise moment is a time for us to ask ourselves, who are we as Americans? And let's be frank, we haven't always been great, and let's be frank, our history says a lot about what we've done and who we've done. This country has never been great for poor people, for black people, for indigenous people.”