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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 31, 2020

If you don't want protests, stop shooting people in the back people in the back seven times.

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Aug 31, 2020

You can condemn this man, this 17-year-old man. I'm not calling to call him a boy but you can condemn this man and his mother who drove him.

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Aug 31, 2020

Violence does in an proportion does not do good for the movement, period. That's what Joe Biden said.

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Aug 10, 2020

Joe Biden uniquely enough has is a transcendent figure in Democratic politics.

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Aug 10, 2020

What we are trying to do is reimagine what this country will look like, and that's what Joe Biden and Kamala Harris represent.

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Aug 10, 2020

The country is becoming more diverse. The country is becoming more brown. Joe Biden and Kamala Harris represent the demographics of what the country will be.

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Jul 13, 2020

The President is a white supremacist, you have to firmly believe that we have so far to go.

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Jul 5, 2020

I mean, I guess it's difficult when your boss is racist, but let's look at it in the entire context of the president today.

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Jul 2, 2020

Donald Trump is one of the worst presidents we've had in the history of this country.

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Jul 2, 2020

But you're right, this person President is going to harken and he's going to, to reach down and dig deep on something which is so true.

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Jun 30, 2020

This president as you stated earlier, in the introduction, he uses political and cultural wars as some type of currency.

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Jun 30, 2020

This is the same president who would have been on the other side of SCLC, he would have been on the other side of snick, he would have been on the other side of core, I mean, hell, he would have been on the other side of Dr. King.

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Jun 30, 2020

Black Lives Matter, I don't know if this phrase, if it makes you raise your shoulders or your eyebrows, then something is genuinely wrong with you.

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May 28, 2020

It's not good enough to simply sit at home and say, I'm not a racist, you have to be anti racist.

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May 28, 2020

I'm sick and tired of people thinking that. And the second thing is and this is what the President fails it because he doesn't have the empathy or the nuance to understand this.

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May 28, 2020

You have two choices. You can either be racist or anti racist. That's it. That's the only choice you have in this country.

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Jan 12, 2020

And the fact that Cory Booker got out of the race today, adds another three to five points to his cushion throughout the south.

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Jan 12, 2020

I think that if you look at Joe Biden's record, I've been on this show, I've been very critical of Joe Biden, I've been critical of the crime bill, et cetera. However, you can't point to instances over the past decades that he's been in…

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Dec 29, 2019

The question is, can he overcome that hump and can he actually garner any diversity, can he actually garner any support.

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Dec 29, 2019

Pete Buttigieg is not the future of the Democratic Party, he's the right now. He's a great voice of the party.

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