America Inflamed. With CNN's Bakari Sellers
The Bill Press Pod
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4.7 • 601 Ratings
🗓️ 2 June 2020
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Bakari Sellers is an attorney, activist, CNN Commentator and author the great new memoir, My Vanishing Country. You can buy it here.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, friends. Welcome back to the Bill Press pod. It's good to have you with us as always. |
| 0:12.5 | You know, at one time, Bakari Sellers was the youngest member of the South Carolina House of Representatives, elected at the age of 21. |
| 0:23.4 | He's now a prominent attorney in South Carolina and a leading commentator on CNN. He's also the author of an inspiring and timely new book |
| 0:29.7 | just out last week called My Vanishing Country about growing up as a young black man in the |
| 0:35.4 | rural south. And he's one of the most powerful voices |
| 0:38.6 | guiding us today in our response to the murder of George Floyd, and so many others before him, |
| 0:44.9 | and to the protests that followed, sadly too many of them turning to violence. We spoke to Bacari |
| 0:50.8 | Sellers from his home with his 17-month-old twins not far away. |
| 0:56.1 | Baccarri Sellers, it's good to see you again. |
| 0:57.8 | It's a pleasure to be with you, Bill. |
| 0:59.2 | You've always been a hero of mine, and somebody who I've been on air with who's pushed me to be better. |
| 1:04.8 | And so, and you can drink red wine with the best of them. |
| 1:08.0 | So I'm grateful to be here with you, my friend. |
| 1:11.7 | My brother from another mother, as we said that. I feel that way about you. Now, I have to tell |
| 1:17.5 | you, I loved your book. And I started reading your book. I want to talk about the book, but we've got |
| 1:23.5 | to talk about what's going on today because I see them as almost one and the same. |
| 1:28.3 | Yes. |
| 1:28.6 | I started reading your book the day after George Floyd was killed. |
| 1:33.4 | And I was stunned by your first chapter to learn that 32 years ago in 1968, your father, who was unarmed, was one of 28 young black men shot by white |
| 1:48.8 | police officers on the campus of South Carolina State College in Orangeburg, South Carolina. |
| 1:54.7 | That was 52 years ago, Bakari. |
| 1:57.7 | I thought we made a lot of progress since. |
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