Cleveland Sellers Remembers John Lewis and C.T. Vivian

The Bakari Sellers Podcast

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4.8 • 966 Ratings

🗓️ 27 July 2020

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Bakari is joined by his father, Dr. Cleveland Sellers, to remember John Lewis's life and legacy (6:50); Lewis's and C.T. Vivian's roles in the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and Southern Christian Leadership Conference (23:33); and the legacy of SNCC in the current Black Lives Matter movement (49:13). Host: Bakari Sellers Guest: Cleveland Sellers Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to another episode of the Bakari Sellers podcast. I'm obviously
0:16.2	excited to get this interview going with my hero. My father, Dr. Cleveland
0:20.7	Sellers. My dad is an amazing individual who served in
0:24.1	SNCC and today we're having him on to actually give a SNCC perspective
0:28.9	on CT Vivian and John Lewis and so I'm really, really excited about just
0:34.9	celebrating their lives with my dad today. But before I do, I wanted to talk a bit
0:40.1	about Congresswoman Alexandria O'Cassio Cortez and her response this week to
0:45.0	Florida Congressman Ted Yoho. By the way all week I've been calling him Ted
0:49.4	Yayo in memory, not memory because he's not passed away, but remembering my rapper Tony
0:56.4	Yayo. So if I say Yayo this morning, you know I'm talking about Yoho.
1:00.6	But in case you missed it after, he'd had exchanged this week between AOC and Yoho.
1:05.6	Yoho reportedly called the congressman quote a fucking bitch.
1:09.4	Now after his half-assed apology on the House floor,
1:13.1	Congresswoman Ocasio Cortez gave what I believe
1:16.0	is probably one of the more memorable speeches
1:18.2	I've heard from a member of Congress.
1:20.4	Here's the first part of that clip that I want to share.
1:23.0	I walked back out and there were reporters in the front of the Capitol
1:28.0	and in front of reporters, Representative Yoho called me, and I quote,
1:32.0	a fucking bitch.
1:35.0	These are the words that Representative Yoho levied against a congresswoman,
1:42.0	the congresswoman that not only represents New York's 14th congressional
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