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The Bakari Sellers Podcast

'Black AF History’ With Michael Harriot

The Bakari Sellers Podcast

The Ringer

Politics, News

4.8966 Ratings

🗓️ 2 October 2023

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Bakari Sellers is joined by political commentator and writer Michael Harriot to discuss his new book, ‘Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America’ (:51), James Brown’s importance to all forms of music (8:29), and the prospect of his book getting banned (11:22). Host: Bakari Sellers Guest: Michael Harriott Producer: Donnie Beacham Jr. Executive Producer: Jarrod Loadholt Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

I won't tell you that it's gonna be okay.

0:07.0

I won't tell you that it's going to be okay.

0:15.0

And welcome to another episode of a car sales podcast.

0:17.0

Today we have a special guest with that.

0:20.0

Somebody I know you've been waiting to hear from,

0:22.0

although you've heard from him before, but somebody you've been waiting to hear from just recently because he is now a New York Times best-selling author,

0:33.2

none other than my good friend Michael Harry.

0:34.9

How does it feel?

0:35.6

Did they see your jacket yet?

0:37.0

Not yet, not yet.

0:38.0

I'm just, I feel good man, trying to be like you,

0:40.2

trying to be a two-times bestseller. I don't know if you knew you were a two time

0:45.2

bestseller but yeah I knew. But that's what the people say. You know I don't know they

0:49.2

write about it at the time. That's what the people say. Congratulations though man man, I mean, it's a labor of love and you're a friend to the show so we don't need an introduction.

0:57.0

And we'll dive right into your new book, Black AF history.

1:02.0

First, the title, why did you choose it and why Black A.

1:07.1

A.F. history, especially after Kenya, Burris, got so much heat for, it's show black as

1:10.9

fuck. So, um, but in fact, so I, I, well you know this, but most people don't, that I was kind of in the

1:20.2

poetry world before, you know, people knew me as a journalist or a Twitter

1:26.7

person and you know ain't no money in poetry so So I would sell these shirts, these that said

1:35.2

as Black AF, and my nickname kind of he graduated to The Blackwood, like which

1:42.0

poet is he, he's black one and so I was I had

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