A Former U.S. Senate Page Reflects on Security, Race, Class, and the Capitol Riots
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3 min readJan 15, 2021
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In the summer of 2019, I had the privilege of working as a U.S. Senate page. We had to be compliant with many layers of security protocol. This included forfeiting access to our cellphones and the internet when we entered the campus. Every morning, my colleagues and I would walk into the Hart Senate Office Building past armed Capitol police officers…
