While “white supremacy” did not start with Donald Trump, it has been “magnified” by him, said CNN’s Bakari Sellers on Sunday as a State of the Union panelist.
White people have a unique responsibility to end “white supremacy,” said Sellers.
“White supremacy is not new. It didn’t start with Donald Trump. It has been magnified and lifted up and put on another playing field,” said Sellers.
“But I don’t think anything has necessarily changed. It won’t change until individuals who don’t look like Nina and I decide that enough is enough,” he said, referencing his fellow African-American panelist.
“I hope that individuals, especially white evangelicals, in the United States of America decide to stand up and say enough is enough, and Donald Trump is perverting in giving these individuals a platform and he should not. That’s all we’re asking for,” Sellers said.
Tapper and the other panelists offered no pushback to any of Sellers’ assertions.
Watch Sellers’ comments below.
Partial transcript below.
TAPPER: Bakari Sellers, let me ask you. Do you think that it’s true that everything changed for the country last weekend?
SELLERS: Well, I think it was a tragic day for the country.
But white supremacy is not new. It didn’t start with Donald Trump. It has been magnified and lift up and put on another playing field.
But I don’t think anything has necessarily changed. It won’t change until individuals who don’t look like Nina and I decide that enough is enough. This isn’t a partisan issue.
And so many people confuse patriotism and prejudice. And what we saw on display was so much prejudice. And I hope that individuals especially white evangelicals in the United States of America decide to stand up and say enough is enough and Donald Trump is perverting in giving these individuals a platform and he should not.
That’s all we’re asking for.
CNN regularly hypes “white supremacy” as a powerful social force in contemporary America, linking it to conservatism, right-wing politics, libertarianism, and other dissident movements opposed to the Left.
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