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The Bakari Sellers Podcast

Ben Crump and the Argument Against Banning Menthol Cigarettes

The Bakari Sellers Podcast

The Ringer

Politics, News

4.8966 Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2022

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Civil Rights Attorney Ben Crump joins Bakari Sellers to discuss the case surrounding Grand Rapids PD killing an unarmed named Patrick Lyoya (2:38), policy changes taking place in Orlando, FL (9:04), and the argument against banning menthol cigarettes (14:33). Host: Bakari Sellers Guest: Ben Crump Producer: Donnie Beacham Executive Producer: Jarrod Loadholt Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to another that it's going to be okay.

0:16.0

Welcome to another episode of the Bakari Shelves podcast. Today we have my brother.

0:18.0

He's been on before.

0:19.0

He's a good friend of mine, somebody I love and adore somebody I talked to often for advice, none other than I guess what is Reverend

0:25.0

Trump and call you America's the Black America's attorney general Ben Crump

0:29.5

it looks like you live from Tallahassee is that where you are today?

0:32.3

Thank God I'm home today, Bekar.

0:35.2

Thank God.

0:37.0

Man, what's, tell me what, I mean,

0:39.4

I mean, look, I have questions for you,

0:40.8

but I want to know, Grand Rapids, Florida, Wells Fargo, how are you doing?

0:45.9

What's going on?

0:46.9

You know, because we are fighting racism and discrimination on every front where it reels its ugly head. and

0:55.0

actually you know it's interesting I thought you and I was gonna be representing a white family out in Michigan

1:01.0

speaking of Grand Rapids, but I'm always, I mean this because I'm risen to a high intellectual level when you and I engage and that's why I love working with you so much brother.

1:17.0

I'm working obviously with this Wells Fargo thing where you saw them give less than 50% of home loans

1:29.2

compared to with black people applying for home mortgages compared to white citizens with less credit

1:39.0

scores and this seems to be a pattern with Wells Fargo.

1:44.1

And so it was coincidental when I got involved in litigation and

1:50.3

the mayor Eric Adams from New York came out and said that they were

1:55.0

suspending all their accounts. No new accounts for Wells Fargo until they

2:01.0

could convince the city of New York that they were not engaged in discriminatory practices against African American families.

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