'If Donald Trump wants to gas someone next time, start right here,' Booker said, as he thumped his heart.
Booker grew up in Washington, D.C., the son of parents who graduated from historically black colleges and whose lives were improved by the civil rights movement. He said his father was the first black salesman hired by IBM in the region. His mother helped organize the 1963 March on Washington.
California Sen. Kamala Harris, whose parents were also active in the civil rights movement, said she would not have become the second black woman elected to the Senate"were it not for those folks who took to the streets." "Not one I know. And I'm talking about people at every level of life, including people who graduated Harvard and Stanford," she said."And the only thing that is common among them is that the color of their skin is black."
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