And welcome to another episode of the

Bakari Sellers podcast. Today I actually have one of my more house brothers. I

known this dude now for 21 years. It's been a very, very long time and we have grown and matured and our paths are quite similar to say the least.

What's going on Lee Mary? How you feeling man?

Sorry, it has been almost over two decades now.

We're getting old I think.

Well, you getting old.

I'm trying to stay as young as I can.

Tell me this, man, I know you're running for the attorney general of the great state

damn near Republic of Texas. How does it feel? What's going on?

And it feels good. I know a lot of people outside of the state of Texas doesn't realize how diverse and how wide open the state of Texas is for change.

And I've been working here as you know for years and I've seen you fly in and fly out and speak with families and continue to help organize this community.

I'm really excited about the work we can get down here.

Man, I agree with that.

So every episode, one of the unique things about my show is we have our listeners, have the opportunity

to hear the arc of our guest career and I want to ask you that similar question.

Why did you get into the type of civil rights work that you do?

What keeps you in this work?

And I know that this can be physically and emotionally and

psychologically taxing explain to us about the arc of your career getting to where you are today.

You know, I used to be a school teacher. What I did right out an undergrad was

trying to teach for America and I went to go teach, I wanted to go teach back home in

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