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Bakari Sellers

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Bakari Sellers is a prominent Democratic political figure and commentator from South Carolina. He gained national recognition as a member of the South Carolina House of Representatives, where he served from 2006 to 2014. Sellers has been an advocate for social justice, education reform, and healthcare access, often speaking on issues affecting the African American community. After leaving office, he has continued to influence public discourse through his work as a political analyst and author.

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Aug 29, 2022

The antithesis to that is the Republican Party who say, like Marsha Blackburn, you know, we support the blue, but then you have people talking about defund the FBI.

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Feb 20, 2022

What we're seeing in this country, though, and what I think Mayor Bottoms would agree with is we're seeing this uneven dispensing of justice.

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Feb 20, 2022

I mean, it's the only argument he had. I mean, at the end of the day, the defense attorney has to throw everything against the wall that he possibly can.

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Feb 1, 2022

Dare I say? And it will - and this is going to make its rounds, I'm sure. But dare I say, one of the cruelest - one of the cruelest jokes that this country has ever played, on Black folk, was replacing Thurgood Marshall with Clarence…

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Feb 1, 2022

There is a great value, to having a woman of color, a Black woman, in the room, making this court, reflective, of what this country's promise should be.

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Jan 27, 2022

Joe Biden's record on that it needs not even being said. The fact is, I mean, the front runners Michel Childs, Ketanji Brown Jackson, Leandra Krueger, I mean, they are the best of the best.

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Jan 14, 2022

the fact is, they want to be on the side of the Bull Connors, of the Lester Maddox, of the George Wallaces, the individuals who stood in the way of racial progress in this country.

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Jan 14, 2022

The fact is, they want to be on the side of the Bull Connors, of the Lester Maddox, of the George Wallaces, the individuals who stood in the way of racial progress in this country.

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Nov 23, 2021

Does this case actually go to a jury? Do we have this semblance of accountability if in fact, there's no video?

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Nov 23, 2021

The jury didn't buy it here. So what kind of hope does that give you going forward?

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Nov 23, 2021

The best witness for the prosecution was Ahmaud Arbery, who of course, was dead, but the only way he was able to speak up, the only way his voice was able to be heard was actually through this video.

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Nov 23, 2021

I believe in the system, I believe we have to dismantle this system and rebuild and reimagine it, but I believe it works.

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Nov 23, 2021

What we saw today was accountability, and so you have to stand up and praise that level of accountability.

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Jul 26, 2021

But the fact remains, you can't say you back the blue only during election season.

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Jun 17, 2021

There is nothing about the United States of America that's irredeemable. But we have to reimagine what it looks like.

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Jun 17, 2021

It's not about teaching little white children that you're racist. That's not anywhere near what this is. This is about teaching all children, that there is such a thing as systemic racism.

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Jun 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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Jun 17, 2021

It's amazing that we're having this discussion where we're celebrating Juneteenth, and now individuals don't want to teach us what led us up to Juneteenth.

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Apr 26, 2021

We demand justice from the sheriff`s department, we demand justice from this district attorney, we demand justice not for anybody standing up here, but we demand justice for Andrew Brown and his family.

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Apr 26, 2021

We demand justice from the sheriff's department, we demand justice from this district attorney, we demand justice not for anybody standing up here, but we demand justice for Andrew Brown and his family.

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Apr 26, 2021

In North Carolina, they have a bad law. But what I can also tell you is this, Andrew Brown did something, to justify his shooting, then they would have gotten that approval from a judge last Wednesday night or Thursday morning. If they had…

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