When the former Newark mayor joined the U.S. Senate in 2013, it was overwhelmingly white ― and it still is today.
Sen. Cory Booker , who is running for president in 2020, said the Senate was “literally the least diverse place” he’d ever seen when he joined in 2013.
“And I’m not joking,” Booker added. “I remember one of my first times working late, and when I went to leave, there was a line of people coming in to clean the Senate that were all Black and brown people.” He also noted the lack of diversity among congressional staffers. When Booker joined the then-113th Congress, just six of 100 senators belonged to a racial or ethnic minority group, according to Pew Research.
That’s less than 10% of the Senate ― while people of color make up nearly 40% of the total U.S. population.
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