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Mia Love, the first Republican Black woman elected to the United States Congress, is dead at 49. The former Utah U.S. representative’s family confirmed her death in a public statement. Love suffered from a years-long battle with glioblastoma brain cancer.

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[–] logicbomb@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Here is her quick political overview from this article.

Love, the daughter of Haitian immigrants, made history in 2014 when she became the nation’s first Republican Black woman elected to Congress as the U.S. representative for Utah’s 4th Congressional District. She served for two terms between 2015 and 2019. While in Congress, Love championed sexual assault prevention and immigration reform. In 2018, Love notably clashed with Donald Trump, then the 45th president of the United States, by joining Democrats in condemning the Trump administration’s child separation policy at the U.S. border.

Love was one of the few Republicans not to endorse Trump in the 2016 presidential election. She announced just before Election Day that she would not vote for Trump following the release of the infamous Access Hollywood video of him bragging about touching women sexually without their consent. “His behavior and bravado have reached a new low,” she said at the time.

After she lost re-election in 2018, Love became a political contributor for CNN and made several appearances as a guest co-host for “The View.”

[–] NimdaQA@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

She can burn in hell with every other neocon who created this mess.

[–] paultimate14@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

Insane that it took 38 years to go from the first black woman in Congress in 1977 to the first black Republican woman in Congress.

Mia Love would have been 2 years old when Shirley Chisholm entered office.

[–] Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org 8 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Am I tripping or does "Republican black woman" sound odd? English is my second language so I'm not sure but to me it has the same vibe as "arrow and bow" or "a red, big sign".

[–] xyzzy@lemm.ee 5 points 1 week ago

Here's why it might seem odd: https://youtube.com/shorts/Q2CGJRfgDQ0

Color normally comes before qualifiers like "Republican," but in this case "black woman" is used as a noun phrase that is being modified by Republican.

[–] NewDark@lemmings.world 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

It seems fine but I had to check the "order" and it seems like it's color(6) / origin(7) or maybe purpose(9). https://7esl.com/order-of-adjectives/

I don't think it sounds off enough that someone would call it out.

Edit: I had to dig deeper, apparently you could consider it a "noun adjunct" which means it would be valid.

[–] priapus@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

I'm a native speaker and it sounds off to me too. I would definitely go with "black republican woman".

Conservatives and brain damage, name a better OTP.