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U.S. Senator-for-Life from Noo Joisey, formerly the mayor of Newark. Booker is a candidate for president in 2020, running on a platform of Make America Newark. He once wrote an essay on how to grope babes. He is noted for having an imaginary friend named T-Bone...
(D.-N.J.) said in a speech at the Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, S.C. on Wednesday that bigotry was written into the founding documents of the United States and that white supremacy has "always been a part of the American story."
"Bigotry was written into our founding documents. Native Americans, in our Declaration of Independence, were referred to as savages," Booker said. "In our Constitution, black people are fractions of human beings.
"White supremacy has always been a problem in our America story," he said. "If not always at the surface, then looking not so far beneath it."