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The Axe Files with David Axelrod

Ep. 186 - Bakari Sellers

The Axe Files with David Axelrod

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4.67.7K Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2017

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Former South Carolina State Representative Bakari Sellers joins the show to talk about his family's involvement in the Civil Rights Movement, the Orangeburg Massacre, politics in the South, voting rights, and more.

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And now, from the University of Chicago Institute of Politics and CNN, the Axviles, with your

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host, David Axelrod.

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Any list of promising young political leaders in the country would include Bacarei sellers,

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who as an amazing story elected to the South Carolina legislature at the age of 22,

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Rampalutin Governor at 30, now a widely followed commentator on CNN and elsewhere.

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And also a fellow at the Institute of Politics at the University of Chicago, where I caught

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up with him to talk about his life and career, his families celebrated history in the civil

0:49.8

rights movement and the future.

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Bacarei sellers, my friend, it's great to see you.

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I know the Prince of Denmark.

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I will take that.

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Denmark South Carolina.

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But I was saying to you before we started rolling, I was really overwhelmed when I did a little

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research.

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I knew your dad was a significant figure in the history of the civil rights movement, but

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I didn't realize how significant until I looked more deeply into it.

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But tell me a little bit about Cleveland sellers.

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Well, my mom and dad both put a high value on education in our household growing up.

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But even more importantly than that, we had to understand and know where we were coming

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from.

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My father was shot on February 8, 1968 in Orangeburg, South Carolina.

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He was national.

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