Rep. Karen Bass is a self-described “lifelong activist,” shaped by transformative decades in South Los Angeles. She's also reportedly a potential Joe Biden VP pick.
Rep. Karen Bass, D-Calif., is a self-described “lifelong activist,” shaped by transformative decades in South Los Angeles.
Bass has spent more than a decade in public service. Before being elected to Congress, she served as a state representative from 2005 to 2010 and became the California Assembly speaker, making history as the first African-American woman in the country to assume such a role. Last year, she became chair of the influential Congressional Black Caucus.
Story continuesShe was first elected to Congress in 2010, representing districts that encompass some of L.A.’s best known, historically Black neighborhoods. “The laws are made equal. They are certainly not applied equally,” Bass said to the attorney general. “I think that the whole defund movement has raised such an important issue,” she told NPR. “I say it differently. ... I say, ‘Refund the communities.’ Because the whole point is that over the last 30 years we have had no problem pouring … money into police, into prisons, into jails, while we have cut funding for social services.”
“I found an area of agreement in their beliefs —where all people, of whatever race, color, or creed are created with equal rights, which is what my remarks were about,” she said. “Since then, published first-hand accounts in books, interviews, and documentaries have exposed this group.”
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