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The Bakari Sellers Podcast

The NFL's Diversity Problem, Player Independence, and College Basketball With Carron Phillips

The Bakari Sellers Podcast

The Ringer

Politics, News

4.8966 Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2021

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Bakari is joined by Deadspin writer Carron Phillips to talk about the NFL's lack of Black head coaches (5:51), the comments that Draymond Green made about Andre Drummond's trade situation (17:44), and why college basketball might not be good this year (25:38). Host: Bakari Sellers Guest: Carron Phillips Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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

0:15.4

Today we'll be talking to my more house brother and dead spin sports writer

0:20.1

Corin and Phillips. But before we get toan, I wanted to talk about President Biden

0:24.3

seeing in town hall this week, specifically his comments on the student debt

0:29.1

relief. Let's play two clips on Biden's response.

0:33.0

Student loans are crushing my family, friends, and fellow Americans.

0:37.0

Me too.

0:38.0

The American dream is to succeed, but how can we fulfill that dream when debt is many people's only

0:44.7

option for a degree we need student loan forgiveness beyond the potential

0:48.7

ten thousand dollars your administration has a proposed we need need at least a $50,000 minimum. What will you do to make

0:56.0

that happen? I will not make that happen. It depends on whether or not you go to a private

1:01.9

university or public university.

1:04.3

It depends on the idea that I say to a community, I'm going to forgive the debt, the billions

1:11.2

of dollars of debt for people who have gone to Harvard

1:14.8

and Yale and Penn and schools, my children, I went to a great school, I went to a state

1:18.8

school, but is that going to be forgiven rather than use that money to provide for early education for young children who come from disadvantaged circumstances.

1:31.0

But here's what I think. I think everyone and I've been proposing this

1:35.6

for four years, everyone should be able to go to community college for free, for

1:41.5

free. That's cost $9 billion and we should pay for it. And the tax policies we have now,

1:50.0

we should be able to pay for you. You spend almost that money as a break for people

1:53.8

own racehorses. And I think any family making under 125,000 dollars whose

2:00.4

kids go to a state university they get into, that should be free as well.

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