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Bakari Sellers Reflects on ‘My Vanishing Country’ and Systemic Racism

Bakari Sellers Reflects on ‘My Vanishing Country’ and Systemic Racism

KQED's Forum vor 6 Jahren

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Bakari Sellers says the most important day of his life happened
before he was even born; February 8 1968 when highway patrolmen
opened fire on students protesting segregation in South Carolina,
killing 3 and wounding 28, including Seller's father. Sellers, who
became the youngest person to be elected to the South Carolina
legislature, writes about how the trauma of the incident permeated
his childhood in his memoir, "My Vanishing Country."
Now a lawyer and CNN political analyst, Sellers joins us to talk
about the effects of systemic racism and what the killing of George
Floyd by police, more than a half a century after his father's
shooting, tells us about the state of America.