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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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Apr 25, 2021

How do you redact body cam video without the prosecuting agency?

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Apr 21, 2021

Senator Kennedy and many others are expecting laws to say that niggers are colored or blacks can't come here, can't vote here. But that's not the way that Jim Crow worked when it came to Voting Rights Act because of the 15th Amendment, you…

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Apr 21, 2021

Yes, it is discriminatory. Yes, it is reminiscent of Jim Crow.

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Mar 29, 2021

Number two, we have to realize that democracy is participatory. And we have to do our civic duty of participating in juries, so that we can be in rooms like this and be the ultimate arbitrators of justice.

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Mar 29, 2021

It's just the unfortunate, a common occurrence within our community of not getting full justice. I mean, we dare not imagine what that feels like at the end of this trial.

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Mar 29, 2021

You have to ask questions that are just logical, would a white man in this country have been treated the same? Would that knee have been on the back of his neck for more than nine minutes?

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Mar 29, 2021

I mean, I think the word that we're looking for is justice. And, many people watching this trial, not just in the United States, but around the world want full justice for George Floyd and his family.

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Mar 23, 2021

I mean, Raphael Warnock said this best in the State of Georgia, it's easier to purchase a weapon in Georgia than it is to go out and cast a ballot. I mean, these are some of the things that we have to look at in this country.

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Mar 23, 2021

If your right to vote wasn't so important, they wouldn't be working so damn hard to take it from you.

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Mar 22, 2021

I mean, there comes a point, when you have to set politics aside, and you have to do what's right for the needs of this country. And right now, inaction means that we're going to have more scenarios, where we just have thoughts and…

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Mar 22, 2021

Expend every ounce of capital you have, so we don't have another week that goes by where we're running off a list of names, of individuals who've been murdered, in spas, or individuals who've been murdered at grocery stores, etcetera.

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Mar 14, 2021

See, that is what we're talking about when we talk about this systemic injustice. But Ron Johnson creates the laws. And so yes, we've got to call it out.

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Mar 14, 2021

I would say, Senator Johnson, the only reason we're on the cusp, and having these discussions about Criminal Justice Reform is because George Floyd had a knee on his neck for eight minutes and 46 seconds.

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Mar 14, 2021

this is an issue of democracy. And this is the issue of justice in that bill must pass Chuck Schumer.

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Mar 14, 2021

if we do not pass this voting rights bill, this John Lewis Voting Rights Bill, then Democrats will not win elections for the remainder of the decade, point blank period.

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Mar 14, 2021

Racism in this country is a power construct, and people like Ron Johnson have the power and the ability to implement racist policies even when they are ignorant to the fact that what they're doing is racist.

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Dec 16, 2020

That's a BFD. I mean, to use the words of Joe Biden, that's a huge deal at the Department of Interior to have the first Native-American person to be a part of a Cabinet.

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Dec 16, 2020

I mean, look, you can't say that Joe Biden is not doing what he promised he would do.

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Dec 10, 2020

It's fear, it's cowardice. I mean, that's exactly what it is.

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Dec 10, 2020

You should actually acknowledge that democracy is a fundamental tenet of this country that we live in.

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Nov 23, 2020

You're naming three people who most individuals in the political realm would deem as being cowards, because they're simply afraid of the shadow of Donald Trump.

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Nov 23, 2020

There's no President in the history of the United States who's had more financial issues looming over them than Donald Trump.

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Nov 23, 2020

I don't anticipate Donald Trump doing much for the Republican Party.

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Sep 26, 2020

I actually will say it probably will. The reason being is because Barack Obama in 2012 actually painted Mitt Romney throughout the entire cycle as mighty rich who didn't really pay taxes.

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