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

Today we'll be interviewing Reverend Dr. Robert Turner, the pastor of the only standing

black-owned structure from the historic Black Wall Street era in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

We'll talk about remembering Tulsa in a broader conversation around race, reparations, and

atonement.

But before I get to Reverend Turner, I wanted to talk about this back and forth between President

Biden and the Republicans on the jobs plan so that our listeners can read between the lines of what the news is reporting

about Biden's jobs plan but more importantly how this administration is

seeking to manage both Republicans that don't want to see him succeed, but also the moderate Senate

Democrats who, as we've seen this weekend from Joe Manchin, ain't helpful either.

In case you've missed it, last week got their weeks of negotiating an infrastructure proposal with Republicans,

President Biden rejected the Republicans' latest $928 billion proposal

after he originally proposed $ 2.2 trillion. It's been clear for some time now

that there was never going to be a bipartisan deal. So I know a lot of Democrats are

wondering why I go through all of this when you know that you're not

going to get a deal done and you can't get a deal done with only Democratic votes?

The answer is moderate Senate Democrats Democrats and that goes beyond Joe

Manchin and Kristen Cinema. In order for them to feel comfortable politically

enough to vote for a big bill where you spend this much money, there has to be a perception that they

attempted to be bipartisan even when they know Republicans won't vote with them.

And so instead of a bold transformative bill, a lot of my moderate friends use Republican

negotiations as covered to support smaller, less transformative water-down bills. It's the same reason why this group of Democrats support what folks like

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