On Monday morning CNN contributor Bakari Sellers laughed and attempted to give credit to Black GOP strategist Joseph Pinion who was blindsided with a supercut of Donald Trump making racist comments.
Brought on initially to discuss the former president's attempt to reach out to black voters, Republican party strategist was then presented by CNN host Sara Sidener with a collection of clips from Donald Trump speeches where he made comments that drew criticism for their racist overtones.
After the clips were completed, Sidner pressed her Republican guest, "He said a lot of different things that really were upsetting to Black folks and white folks. How do you get over that?'
"I'll just say this," Pinion parried. "We're not in an election where you're saying this is the person who's perfect on race versus just the person who is terrible on race. I think that we like to whitewash away the racial gaps of the candidates when we believe in the underlying policies of that candidate. So whether it's Joe Biden talking about racial jungles 30 years ago and Kamala Harris having to remind people that that little girl on that bus was me or whether it's Joe Biden as recently as two years ago reminiscing about the good times he used to hang out in the cafeteria with all of those avowed racists in the United States Senate."
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"Yes, there are plenty of comments that we can talk about from these presidents. There are people on the left I think that probably take more issue with the racial legacy of Donald Trump but most people, I think, are saying it is a pox on both houses," he added.
Given his chance to respond, Sellers laughed and offered, "Listen, I just listened to my good friend not actually answer your question and I thought the dodging was pretty good."
"I thought it was good, I thought your elocution was amazing," he continued while laughing. "Look, the fact is Donald Trump uses racism as political currency. To his point, this is baked into the cake of who Donald Trump is. I mean, we know Donald Trump is racist, so anytime you sit here and say, 'Look, that guy over there is racist, don't vote for him,' that's really not moving the needle."
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