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The Bakari Sellers Podcast

State Sen. Raumesh Akbari on Advocating for Change in Tennessee and Lawyer Corey Stern on What Comes Next for Flint, Michigan

The Bakari Sellers Podcast

The Ringer

Politics, News

4.8966 Ratings

🗓️ 27 August 2020

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Bakari is joined by Tennessee state Senator Raumesh Akbari to talk about being a Democrat in a majority Republican legislature (3:30) and how she is working for police reform in Tennessee (12:12). Then, he is joined by Corey Stern, a lawyer representing children in Flint, Michigan, to talk about the $600 million settlement being awarded to residents harmed by the water crisis (24:20) and what comes next for the city (43:14). Host: Bakari Sellers Guests: Raumesh Akbari and Corey Stern Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

I won't tell you that it's gonna be on the

0:12.0

welcome to another episode of the Bakari Cellars Podcast. I have my special guest toast I guess with me today. Stokley, who's hanging out with me for a little while. But this is another powerful episode where we have Senator Agbari from the great state of Tennessee.

0:27.6

And we also have one of my good friends, Corey Stern joining us today.

0:31.7

Corey is an intriguing and pivotal figure in the Flint settlement and so we'll get into that as well.

0:37.0

But you know I'm rocking my LeBron James Jersey and it's just kind of apropro and ironic that I have

0:43.0

Stokely here with me because like many of you

0:46.0

I'm following not only what's happening

0:49.0

in the wake of Jacob Blake,

0:50.0

but the ripple effects across the country

0:52.0

with protests ranging from

0:54.6

protesters taken to the streets to the NBA and Major League Baseball teams

0:59.4

shot out particularly to the Milwaukee Bucks and the Milwaukee Brewers for doing the absolutely right thing

1:07.2

and that's using their platform to focus everyone's attention on what's

1:11.5

open season on black men. I've had a few people ask me what the end

1:16.8

game is for the boycott and what that would look like. And that's always an odd

1:21.4

question to me because I'm sure they want what we want.

1:25.0

And that's real accountability for officers shooting a man and using lethal force when they didn't have to.

1:31.0

So as a reminder, here's what accountability looks like.

1:34.4

It looks like full and most importantly transparent investigations.

1:38.0

It looks like an investigation handled by the Wisconsin State Police and

1:41.8

the Wisconsin Attorney General because I don't think you can trust that police department and you probably can't trust them either.

1:48.0

But you definitely can't trust that local district attorney to do this matter justice and it looks like charges

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