Tlaib comes from an immigrant, working-class background. She was born to Palestinian immigrants who never attended high school (eldest of 14). Her father worked on an assembly line for Ford. She had to work full time to put herself through college and support her 13 siblings...
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According to several news sources, AOC’s father was born in NYC and mother was born in PR. Please correct me if I’m wrong.
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Oh, my apologies. Yes, he was an architect and owned an architectural firm.
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It was also interesting to learn that bartending was her second job.
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Not sure, but if she had highlighted part of this it would have countered the narrative that she was ill experienced for Congress. She's ill suited because she's willing to cape for imperialism, not because she knows a first hand that tipped worker wages are BS
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She was recruited and trained by an org. that was literally holding auditions for the next big face of progressive politics.
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Parties doing this [training people] makes a little bit of sense, random non activism NGOs doing this makes me a little bit itchy.

