AMERICA'S UGLY RACIST PAST AND PRESENT
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
4.5 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 27 May 2020
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Bakari Sellers, Attorney and CNN Political Analyst, author of My Vanishing Country, joins Thom to talk about the changes in our country and systematic racism.
Listeners call in with responses to Joe Biden's recent gaffe on the radio program of Charlamagne tha God, and point out that the 2020 election alone can't solve 400 years of racism.
For the Book Club, Thom reads from "Just Another N-word: My Life in the Black Panther Party" by Field Marshal Don Cox, and "Stand Up, Struggle Forward: New Afrikan Revolutionary Writings on Nation, Class and Patriarchy" by Sanyika Shakur.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Tom Hartman program. |
| 0:15.0 | Welcome back, Tom Hartman here with you on the line with us. |
| 0:19.0 | Bickari Sellers. |
| 0:20.0 | Bickari is an attorney with Stromlaw, he's a CNN political analyst, and previously he was a member of the South Carolina House of Representatives 2006 to 2014. |
| 0:29.0 | He was the Democratic nominee for lieutenant governor in South Carolina in 2014. |
| 0:35.0 | He has a new book out. |
| 0:35.8 | It's titled My Vanishing Country, a memoir by Bakari Sellers. |
| 0:41.5 | It's a remarkable story. |
| 0:42.6 | But kari, welcome to the program. |
| 0:44.0 | First, thank you for having me. |
| 0:46.0 | It's an honor to be here and I admired you from a far, for a long period of time. |
| 0:50.0 | So thank you for being gracious enough to allow me to use your platform today. |
| 0:54.0 | Well thank you it's very considerate. |
| 0:56.0 | Tell us about Denmark is where I'm from it's three stop lights and a blinking light |
| 1:02.0 | it's filled with amazing people, good souls. |
| 1:05.0 | One of the reasons that my book is entitled, |
| 1:07.0 | My Vanishing Country is, you know, Denmark used to be like the rest of the rural south, |
| 1:11.0 | a place where you had a great deal of upward |
| 1:13.8 | economic mobility especially for people of color. |
| 1:16.9 | If I can interrupt real quickly just for people who might be horribly confused |
| 1:20.9 | right now we're talking about the city of Denmark South Carolina. |
| 1:24.6 | Not the country. Go ahead. Yes. |
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