Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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1,664 appearances
69 recordings
22 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 2 Sep
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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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.
And, and so, but my dad worked in the Bronx.
My whole family was in the Bronx.
And so a lot of my life was shuttling between Westchester and the Bronx.
Wow.
And spending time with my cousins and my family.
And from a very young age, it, that experience in me, seeing that my cousins didn't really have books in schools.
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