lived experience

That means sharing the lived experience of the people whom a lawmaker seeks to represent.

Black Americans, as a people, deeply understand and carry this history and lived experience and the knowledge and burden of democracy as contingent and imperiled in our collective bodies, psyches, and memories.

“Without our input, the inquiry risks repeating the mistakes that played out during the pandemic by failing to take into consideration the lived experience of ordinary families,” said its spokesperson Rivka Gottlieb.

Now an advisor to the Los Angeles Innocence Project, he said a candidate’s “lived experience” and character are more important than their ethnic background.

“This is our new lived experience.”