“My lived experience made me political,” Rep. Jamaal Bowman said about finding his voice. 'And hip-hop just bridged the gap between my lived experience and what happens in our larger political system.”
Michael Brochstein / Sipa USA via AP fileWASHINGTON — Rep. Jamaal Bowman’s booming voice — and even bigger personality — is becoming ubiquitous on Capitol Hill and beyond.
The burly, bald Bowman, a former linebacker for the University of New Haven football team, is a member of “The Squad” of progressive and disruptive Democrats of color, many of whom have massive followings on social media and have had their own viral, confrontational moments.Tom Williams / CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images
His first term in office, Bowman said, was about “survival and learning.” During his first week in Congress, he survived the Capitol insurrection; then a month later, his mother, who raised him as a single parent, died of Covid.“Coming into the second term, I felt lighter on my feet, because, one, I learned a lot the first term, and then two, I was kind of over the trauma, or the immediacy of the trauma that we went through the first term,” Bowman said.
"Biden passed three bipartisan pieces of legislation, after an insurrection, during a global pandemic, opened back up the schools, killing the game!" Bowman said. Asked about the incident, Greene’s office accused Bowman of violating New York disorderly conduct laws and her right to peaceful assembly. “I don’t know if there’s been a more political hip-hop album ever. I don’t know if there’s been a more political piece of musical art ever,” Bowman said in his office, sporting a blazer over a black Wu-Tang Clan T-shirt.
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