Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

And also like even in that, yes, the deck is stacked.

The system is rigged.

This story that we're told that this is all you have to do to make it is not quite true.

And yet.

Miracles can still happen.

And this is still America.

And it's like, can we ban automatic weapons?

you know whatever same same in Westchester I was like the only Puerto Rican girl the whole town is like all Irish Italian and Jewish people yeah Westchester has Jews yeah growing up I thought I thought Jews were like half the US population I know this is this is New York uh one of my friends who grew up uh around Albany felt the same way I was like yeah no no baby I thought there were like three ethnicities of white people yeah

And it was Irish, Italian, and Jews.

And the idea of a non-ethnic white person, like a wasp, was like Yorktown was like this more working class, upwardly mobile town.

And so like the wasps were like elsewhere.

Yeah.

No, I mean, that was a big part of my experience too because my parents, you know, they had started off in the Bronx and then when I was like around four or five –

You know, the dropout rates in the Bronx at that time were like 50%.

Drop out of school?

Dropping out of school.

Wow, 50%.

Yeah, and my mom was like, we want her to have a chance.

And so my whole extended family chipped in and helped my parents with a down payment on a small house like 30, 40 minutes north of the Bronx.

Wow.