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Rep. Ilhan Omar Says SCOTUS Rulings on Student Loans, Affirmative Action Are Racist

‘What you are seeing is the backlash in the sense that people do not want to see black and brown people excel in this country’
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OMAR: "What it means, you know, if you take all of these cases together, if you think about all the grievances that are brought about the Trump election, what you are seeing is severe backlash in the sense that people do not want to see black and brown people excel in this country. I think it's really something that is unfortunate that we have to pay attention to. And allowing the courts to legitimize licensed discrimination in this kind of way really makes this country not the country that we want it to be, not the kind of future that we want to push forward. Think about 70% of student debt holders being poor and working people. We know that, disproportionally, black women are going to be impact. We know that the wealthy, the billionaires and the millionaires have never been able to carry student debt. The burden is with the families that we all represent, that are struggling to make ends meet. This now will mean that so many people who had this excitement about starting a family, this excitement about starting a small business, all of that is now eroded.”

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