These are things that are not kind of accidentally detrimental to the political participation and people of color. We still have the struggles ahead of us. But it also is just simply the reality. Is it then that do we need to change attitudes first and the structural change, or do we have to go directly to changing structures and have attitudes change afterwards . I guess thats a question for all of you. I would go as is structures and change the structure. I mean, i think that the polling these things are always a little hard to read because people do say what they think that you want them to year, particularly when it comes to race the many polling on race matters. But i would say, you know, culturally we are very. The new american majority, you know, the tolerance and the attitudes of the millenniums to miami, we are so far behind. We have a saying in our office. Dont recruit people you will have to lobby later. It is moving, and we need to structure catch up. One of the things that
[inaudible conversations] hello everyone. Thanks for joining us today by an executive Vice President of external affairs here at the center for American Progress and im thrilled youre here with us today. Whitman of all races make up 18point 5 of the United States congress. Women of color makeup and abysmal 4. 5 of congress. These numbers exist in direct contradiction to the fact that women make up half of the population and are more likely to vote than the male counterparts. We will hear about the reflected Democracy Campaigns new research which shows the persistent upward under representation of women and women of color throughout the country at all levels of government. Over the summer the Reflective Democracy Campaign finished to the unprecedented new database of 42,000 elected officials throughout the country this survey showed the great disparity engender race and ethnicity between our elected lawmakers in those whom they represent i would think donna hall with the Reflective Demo
She joined us in january. She has a really rich of history of campaign work, working inor electoral politics and policyja and research and she was the perfect person to take over from pillar. Im delighted to call you up. Thank you. [applause] thank you, donna. Im really lucky, i guess depending on your perspective maybe really unlucky who is the person to gets to present results of an effort which donna said was conceived of and carried out by a large team of people, many who are here today, many so of whom i think are up all night getting our website and other assets going. I really appreciate your work and second donnas thanks to all of you. Today i would like to do three things. First im going to talk about what our research revealed. Second i offer preliminary thoughts about what it suggests. Third, i will talk a little bit where we might go from here. But to start, lets look at a short video we put together, if i can operate this. Have you ever wondered what does america look like
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