“I’m proud to be a bartender. Ain’t nothin’ wrong with that. There's nothin’ WRONG with working retail, folding clothes for other people to BUY. There is nothing WRONG with preparing the FOOD that your neighbors will EAT. There is nothing WRONG with driving the BUSES that take your family to WORK. There is nothing wrong with being a working person in the United States of America and there is everything dignified about it.”; --Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, back home in NYC addressing Rev. Al Sharpton’s National Action Network convention in April 2019; “The latest line of attack against AOC is laughable. Code-switching, the practice of adjusting one’s speech or vocal patterns depending on the setting, is not the exclusive province of politicians.”; --CNN contributor Raul A. Reyes in an opinion piece defending AOC
