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You have to talk about the issue of race, but I can talk to white constituents about racism, if I at least acknowledge that life is not a crystal stair for them either.
Keith Ellison
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Keith Ellison
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: August 4
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Keith Maurice Ellison
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I do believe that we should have to - make the voters first not the donors first.
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