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Bakari Sellers: “At what point will we be able to teach children that what happened six years ago yesterday in Charleston, South Carolina…”

On the recordJune 17, 2021
At what point will we be able to teach children that what happened six years ago yesterday in Charleston, South Carolina was a white nationalist who walked into a church and murdered nine people?
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Bakari Sellers
Democratic · South Carolina

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Bakari Sellers emphasizes the need to teach children about significant historical events related to racism.

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