DEBATE THREAD #2

[Celerity]

95. that is not what he said, he said that even if people had nothing in common in terms of

certain backgrounds and types of discrimination faced, there still was an urgent need to work with a diverse coalition to fight those multiple types of discrimination and injustice and raise up all groups. He was not putting his LGBTQ experiences on some imaginary balance scale and calling it equal, in fact he brought up the fact that historic racial discrimination over hundreds of years has left a broken system that compounds the injustice and that it needs to be a focal point for all people to help overcome and combat and reverse. His city is also almost majority-minority, so it is not some ultra narrow, non-diverse window of governance that he has interfaced with for the past 8 years. He also has been in an executive role within a strong mayor system. He also oversees a budget and staff and workers that dwarf any Senator's or Representative's.