“The perspective, the lens, the representation, the experience of a Black woman from California is badly needed.”That’s what Representative Barbara Lee — a California Democrat vying for the Senate seat held for three decades by Dianne Feinstein — told a television reporter last month about why people should vote for her in the race.
On Sunday, before a rally that evening outside a production studio in Los Angeles owned by the former N.B.A.
all-star Baron Davis, I asked Lee what she meant by that, since Black people are only about 7 percent of the population of the state.
She replied in a way that was both shrewd and true to her career in politics: “I’ve taken everything I know about what it means to be Black in America or brown in America or low-income in America or a woman in America and tried to turn it into policies.”
Persons:
Barbara Lee —, Dianne Feinstein —, Baron Davis, Lee, “, ”
Locations:
California, Los Angeles, America