Thank you for tuning in to another episode of the Bakari Sellers podcast today.

We'll be interviewing none other than the prolific scholar of anti-racism, Dr. Ibrahim

Kendi. I mean this episode is Sofry, I learned so so much he's just a brilliant mind but before

we get to Dr. Kandy I wanted to talk about this week's special election in Ohio

where Chantel Brown will now replace HUD Secretary Marsha Fudge.

First, I want to congratulate the Congresswoman elect Chantel Brown.

As some of you all may know, I endorse my close friend of almost 20 years,

Nina Turner in the race.

Now occasionally on Twitter I do things that upset y'all,

and this was one of them.

I want folks to understand that a part of politics

is that the friends that are there for you

when there's an opportunity to support them.

You stand with them because they stand with you.

But as important here is acknowledging the very real progressive movement that Senator

Turner helped lead in how it's changed how we talk

about politics in the country. You don't get this police reform movement without them or the

pressure to end the filibuster or the mainstreaming of canceling student loan debt and

Medicare for all or these massive investments in climate

change that we're about to get, or the eviction moratorium, or nearly four trillion dollar

investments, we're going to see through reconciliation without the progressive

movement that she's been center of for a long time. So I took my cap to my friend

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