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The Michael Steele Podcast

Quick Take: The Untapped Power of Black Men

The Michael Steele Podcast

The Bulwark

Politics, Government, History, News

4.83.1K Ratings

🗓️ 25 May 2024

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Michael Steele speaks with Bakari Sellers about his new book, "The Moment: Thoughts on the Race Reckoning That Wasn't and How We All Can Move Forward Now." They discuss the untapped power of Black men in America.

Check out "The Moment" here: https://www.amazon.com/Moment-Thoughts-Reckoning-Wasnt-Forward/dp/006308502X

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0:00.0

Hey Michael Steele podcast listeners, Michael Steele here with another quick take from the Michael Steele podcast.

0:14.0

Check out what's going on right now.

0:16.5

Everybody, welcome back to the Michael Steele podcast.

0:19.7

We're in conversation with the author of the moment.

0:24.0

He is Bakari Sellers.

0:26.5

His work touches on some really, really important buttons,

0:31.6

I think, in terms of the power of black men.

0:36.6

You actually wrote you have a chapter in your book on the untapped power of black men.

0:44.4

Before I get into a little bit of politics,

0:48.0

let's talk a little bit about that,

0:49.3

because I appreciate the little bit of shout

0:51.1

out I got in the book, where you you say I don't want to take away from

0:55.2

traditional conservative values and moral ethos of people like Tim Scott's or Michael

0:59.4

Singleton, Michael Steele who for all intensive purposes believe that conservative values best prop up and move

1:05.3

forward black and brown folk. There's been a lot of noise made around black men and Donald Trump and the fear that seems to be emerging among some of

1:15.8

traditional Democrats is that there's not enough attention being paid in that space.

1:21.1

You touched on alluded to some of that in our last

1:25.7

segment that we were talking about you know a lot of focus being placed on

1:31.3

black women voting but the second largest turnout is black

1:35.7

men. Talk a little bit about what you see happening in that space. This allure that

1:41.6

Donald Trump has was with and I'll put it this way certain black

1:45.4

man because he got me a look the only thing I'm I'm attracted to is how I how I beat

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