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The Bakari Sellers Podcast

Welcome to the #KHive With Reecie Colbert, Chris Evans, and Julie Zebrak

The Bakari Sellers Podcast

The Ringer

Politics, News

4.8966 Ratings

🗓️ 17 August 2020

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Bakari is joined by Reecie Colbert, Chris Evans, and Julie Zebrak, all members of the #KHive, online supporters of Kamala Harris. They talk about how the #KHive was formed (3:45), how the purpose of the group has shifted now that Harris has been selected as a running mate for Joe Biden (16:49), and what the role of the group will be if Harris and Biden win in November (37:14). Host: Bakari Sellers Guests: Reecie Colbert, Chris Evans, and Julie Zebrak 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 you're going to tell you that it's gonna be your

0:12.0

welcome to another episode of the Bakari Sellers Podcast. It is the beginning of an

0:16.4

amazing week because you know we have the Democratic National Convention

0:19.4

this week. But today's episode I'll be interviewing my favorite Twitter family, also known as the

0:25.4

Cahive, the digital army that has developed organically in support of senator and now

0:30.6

a vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris.

0:33.5

You know, this is an amazing episode where we get the highlights and

0:37.2

voices that you see, but you may not know.

0:39.6

And right in line with what we try to do on the Bakari Sellers podcast is just educate, expose, lift up,

0:46.4

and power and give people a chance to share voices they may not otherwise hear.

0:52.1

One of the reasons I'm a card-carrying member of the

0:53.8

CAF myself is because they've always been on the front lines of fighting

0:57.6

misinformation online. Now we all know in 2016 that Russian interference and disinformation shaped the

1:04.2

perception of Secretary Clinton and we certainly know now that the perception

1:08.7

drove votes in turn and gave us the monstrosity of a president that we are now suffering and literally

1:15.2

dying from. Unsurprisingly, we saw the disinformation campaign in the primary target Senator

1:21.3

Harris and Vice President Biden, particularly with

1:24.9

black voters. Now I thought long and hard about this and in this introduction

1:30.1

I wanted to tackle how I think we should think about this.

1:35.0

There are legitimate critiques on criminal justice, for example,

1:40.0

to be had of anyone's record,

1:42.0

whether that be Senator Harris, Senator Sanders or Vice President Biden.

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