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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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