Congresswoman Rashida Tlaibe Talk at the Palestinian American Women's Association
Channel: Soy Del Pueblo TV
Date: 2019-04-06

With an infectious smile and great sense of humor Rashida Tlaib talks, sometime in Arabic, about her hardworking Palestinian immigrant father and mother, growing up with 13 siblings who are now successfully serving humanity in their chosen profession.  She humorously describes how her brother helped her win her Congressional seat when he bought a golf cart and got enthusiastic volunteer campaign workers to ride on it, going block by block getting off it all at once and knocking on doors on her behalf.  She also describes how she fought the Koch brothers in Detroit and won forcing them to clean up the ecological damage in Detroit caused by their toxic pet coke, as well as other oil and trucking companies over air pollution. When she discusses, in Arabic, her grandmother who lives in occupied Palestine, as a warm loving hostess to everyone who comes to her humble home, you realize why Rashida won the election as one of the first Muslim women in US Congress because of her joy and love for humanity is a family tradition.