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On the recordApril 12, 2017
The fact is, from February 1st, 1960, when the students at North Carolina anti-state university decided they were going to sit in and they started something that was amazing with the sit in movement, so people like Ella Baker, and Fannie Lou Hamer, to Henry Smith and Samuel Hahnemann, and (inaudible) Middleton and all the many heroes and sheroes that we lost along the way on this struggle, the fact that you want to compare Donald Trump who is trying to find -- to make some political promise.
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Bakari Sellers
Democratic · South Carolina

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Sellers argues against comparing Donald Trump to civil rights leaders, emphasizing the historical struggle for equality.

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