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Legislator's comments about black people, hygiene draw fury

by Report for America/Associated Press
| June 11, 2020 3:27 PM

A Republican lawmaker questioned on the Ohio Senate floor if “the colored population” is contracting coronavirus at disproportionate rates because they do not wash their hands “as well as other groups.”

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