Question: Who is Cori Bush?
Answer: She is many things, but let me start by saying that when I discovered her earlier today, I realized she is America itself. Ms. Bush is a black woman who has risen from homelessness and a career as a nurse to being the first of her kind to represent her home State of Missouri in Congress. She has already brought a strong message enshrined in grace and humility that seeks to teach and to heal within what has been a hostile environment. Her experience as a healing force was apparent in her response to the following: Some of her new fellow Congress members mistook her for Breonna Taylor, and called her by that name, because she was wearing a face mask that honored this martyr of Black Lives Matter. Ms. Bush did not run for Congress to have her own name celebrated, but was stunned to be mistaken in this way. She ran for Congress, at least in part, to make sure that licentious killing of people like herself would be mitigated by justice. She is now using the mistaking of her identity
