I won't tell you that it's gonna be okay.

I won't tell you that it's going to be okay.

Welcome to another episode of the Bakary Sellers podcast.

Today I have my good friend with me, David Clooney.

I've known this brother for a long time.

He's one of the best and brightest political minds,

but he does something that we don't do enough of.

He connects the grassroots with the grass tops.

He connects grassroots with money

to help us pass initiatives that we want done.

David Clooney is also the executive director of the B. E. A. and the Black Economic

Alliance, which we'll get into. But how are you doing you doing today my brother what's going on?

I'm well it's great to be with you I appreciate you having me on your podcast for sure you know we

we start each one of our episodes on this show the same way because I want my

listeners to be able to understand that they didn't, you just didn't arrive where you are. So walk us through the arc of your career and I know yours has been private practice, government and politics and now the advocacy world.

But talk us through each of your career stops since Howard Law and how those stops have

shaped your orientation toward the work you do now at the BEA.

Yeah, I appreciate that question and Howard Law is an important place to start because I went right from the State University of New York at Albany where I went to college to Howard Law and at Howard Law I learned that has a legacy of civil rights

engagement particularly driven by Charles Hampton Houston who was the

Dean of the law school when Thurgen Marshall was a student there and he had a saying that a lawyer is either a social engineer or a parasite on society.

And that was to instill all of us with the responsibility to work for our communities regardless of the line of work we go into.

So when I went, came directly at a law school, went into a corporate law firm, what's called the white shoe, big corporate law

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