A public figure’s salary can become a rallying cry for young Black voters

Evidence

I mean, here was a Black woman telling a white congressman that if he minded her making equal pay to him so much, then he should “vanish when you see me.” Sometimes me and my boys just randomly yell, “Forty-two five,” Chisholm’s salary, the kind of salary we hope to make someday but also as an inside joke when some white at Baker’s looks at us like they might have owned us, if only. “Forty-two five, nigga, forty-two five,” like it’s the code for a football play. It’s just as exhilarating as getting folks registered to vote Chisholm. — Nikole Hannah-Jones et al., The 1619 Project, 1184

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• CANDY: Chisholm’s salary ‘Forty-two five’ as a football-play code among teens is a vivid, self-contained detail.