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Senator Holly Mitchell talks about how the Crown Act challenged the white-centered policies that were already in place.
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00:00We were challenging a Eurocentric model of not just beauty, but acceptance.
00:07And this notion that I would be a different policymaker or would have fewer bills signed into law or could manage the state budget as I do as a budget chair of the fifth largest economy of the world any differently if my hair were straightened or rocking my locks was just ridiculous.
00:24And so I'm proud that we were able to launch into this conversation a year ago, which I think has helped transition into a global conversation of a black lives do matter and the experience of black people in the workplace, in school matters as well.
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