Clay & Buck Destroy Bakari Sellers’ Insane "New KKK in Brooks Brothers Suits" CNN Rant

Added: 2026-05-17

[00:00:00]The lack of racial gerrymandering, I think in the long run is going to be much better, right? We'll get better quality of representatives. We talked earlier about the fact that racial redistricting, racially motivated gerrymandering has been essentially ruled to be inel uh unconstitutional.

[00:00:22]Essentially, they didn't completely override it, but effectively they have.

[00:00:26]>> It's kind of racist really.

[00:00:29]there. It is in fact uh racist arguably to be drawing things based on race. And so that was basically what the Supreme Court said. Um here is CNN Bari Sers.

[00:00:42]This is the argument he made last night.

[00:00:44]Listen, >> if somebody fell asleep in 1896 >> and woke up today in 2026, they would simply say the only difference is now Negroes have a TV show and we wear nice suits. They they swapped out uh clan hoods for Brooks Brother suits and and that is the problem. I mean PI v.

[00:01:05]Ferguson was 71 and it gave birth to 50 years of Jim Crow. What we have with this court right now, what we're seeing is watching people who have fought and died and bled so that we would have access to the ballot box, so that we would have access to our voices being heard in Congress being ripped away. And I think that there is a casual laughter from people we believe to be our friends on the right who were showing us true colors today. Because the most sacred or one of the most sacred acts you have in the United States of America is the ability to cast a ballot and elect someone and send them to Congress, the state house or a mayorial seat that represents your interest. And now black folks throughout the south are being silenced. And I don't find that to be a laughing matter.

[00:01:48]This is pretty shameful, Buck, even for CNN because this doesn't directly impact anybody's right to vote. And you'll notice that they got embarrassed because in Memphis, which is a district that has been redrawn now, you have a guy named Steve Cohen who is a white Jewish guy that has been representing Memphis for a long time. And you know who he usually beats in the race when he uh represents Memphis?

[00:02:14]>> Rep. I mean, uh, black guys.

[00:02:16]Republicans, black woman has been the last couple of times the nominee to run against him in Memphis. So, this this racial dynamic is pretty nasty of Bari Sers. I also think I wanted to play this because um this is a guy named Justin Pearson. He is a Tennessee State rep.

[00:02:36]Buck is laughing because he has seen these clips, but I just want to play these for you. This is the guy who is in Memphis and is saying that uh that he is so terribly upset about what has happened. Um and I want to play for you a couple of different things here. Um this is Justin Pearson in 2016 being interviewed and I want you to listen to him. He went to what's the school that Mom Donnie went to? Colgate.

[00:03:05]Where did mom Donnie go? Uh Northeastern >> school. We'll look it up. He went to >> Did he go to Bowden? I forget. Where did mom Donnie go?

[00:03:13]>> He went to an elite expensive Northeast school. Same school. Bowden.

[00:03:18]>> Bowden. I nailed it. Nailed it.

[00:03:21]>> All right. Here's a good before we play this clip, Buck. I don't know if you're going to get this. Who is What is the Civil War connection for Bowden College in a significant way that we have talked about this month on this program?

[00:03:38]Uh, well, clearly it was General Bowden who helped Grant in the Vixsburg campaign. No, I have no idea. I think I should just get credit for knowing that it's not Bodwin or whatever. It's >> Yeah, I would never have been able to correctly pronounce it except for the fact that Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, who led the charge on the Battle of Little Roundtop for the 20th Maine, he was a uh his alma moater. He was a professor at Bowden College when he left to go uh to go lead the uh 20th Maine and then he came back and ended up being elected governor of Maine in a post uh post life. So, >> and do you know who plays him in your favorite Gettysburg movie which is based on the novel that you made me read or told me to read. It was very good made as well. The >> Killer Angels.

[00:04:29]>> Uh Killer Angels. Yes.

[00:04:31]none other than Jeff Daniels >> who also plays the smug media guy in the newsroom who says that America is not the greatest country in the world.

[00:04:42]>> So from saving the union at uh Gettysburg >> Little Round Top or whatever round top yeah >> little thank you little roundtop to America is not the greatest country in the world when a beautiful blonde woman asks him why it is the greatest country in the world. So how the mighty have fallen. Uh, I would also point out while we're, you know, taking shots at Jeff Daniels, Dumb and Dumber, the range of Jeff Daniels, to be fair, is pretty incredible. And now a lot of people see him. He does those pure Michigan commercials. He's the guy on the talking about how awesome of a place Michigan is to go visit. Okay, so this is where Justin Pearson went to college. Bowden College Buck, I would bet, is what do you think? $85, $90,000 a year room tuition. I mean, it's one of the most expensive colleges in America. And here is Justin Pearson speaking when he was on campus in Maine 2016. Listen, >> Justin J. Pearson and I'm running for president of PSG. There are a few reasons that we're running this campaign this year. One has to do with representation. How can we represent all voices in a conversation? I want to do this by partnering with organizations from the Boon Democrats to the Boen Republicans. I want to bring together different voices. dissenting voices, voices that may be more liberal or more conservative in order that we can reach a point of sort of the radical middle here. You've had three strike laws, MASS INCARCERATION DENIED US OF who we are, AND WE ARE STILL HERE. AND TODAY, YOU'LL TAKE THE ONLY MAJORITY BLACK DISTRICT FROM US. THAT I want you to know and I want my nephews sons in THE FUTURE TO KNOW MATTER WHAT YOU DO, NO MATTER HOW MUCH YOU TRY AND BREAK US AND MAKE US BID AND MAKE US QUIT, WE WILL STILL BE HERE.

[00:06:32]>> Same guy 10 years apart.

[00:06:35]That is in the in the space of [ __ ] just a decade.

[00:06:39]>> He's gone from Carlton Carlton Banks to Malcolm X in the blink of an eye. Pretty amazing.

[00:06:44]That is a great uh the Carlton Banks to Malcolm X comparison.

[00:06:49]It sounds ridiculous. You play it. What does it say that there is not a political future for the first guy, but there is a political future for the second guy? I would submit to you that that is not a sign of things going better. And look, here he is again. This district that he's so angry about is represented by a white Jewish guy in Memphis. Here he is. Cut 31. Tennessee has now put a new map in place. We'll see if it's legal. Uh there's lots of challenges going out there to make Tennessee a 900 state so that it resembles more so the Northeast, which is all Democrat. They don't allow any Republicans. Here's cut 31 from Justin Pearson.

[00:07:30]>> This is the stealing of congressional districts. This is the stealing of people's voice to literally rig it so that he can win. You have the most unprincipled people who are in political offices right now. The same people who say they care about democracy and this is a republic and people should be able to choose their elected officials. Their elected officials shouldn't be able to choose them. Those same Republicans who would say those lines are now the the co-conspirators along with this white supremacist president of the United States to take and to steal this election because he doesn't want to be impeached. because he doesn't want to be held accountable for the American citizens he killed with these ICE raids and the deportations that he has caused.

[00:08:09]He doesn't want to be held accountable.

[00:08:10]So they are literally rigging and stealing elections and congressional seats. So he sounds a little bit more like himself from Bowden College there in that argument. Uh but I again the lack of racial gerrymandering I think in the long run is going to be much better.

[00:08:30]Right? will get better quality of representatives. And this argument that we're in 1896, I mean, it's particularly pernitious, I think, Buck, from a guy like Bari Sers who is from South Carolina. Tim Scott is a black senator from South Carolina. So, you actually have in the state of South Carolina one of the three most powerful guys or gals, the governor and the two senators, I would argue, probably are the three most powerful politicians in South Carolina.

[00:08:58]Tim Scott's been winning overwhelming uh election in the state of South Carolina.

[00:09:04]A guy that we have had on a lot on this program, Wesley Hunt, represents a majority white district in uh Texas right now. He ran for Senate, did not win. We got a Senate runoff going on in Texas. But I think he's been actually very eloquent talking about people want to have someone who will advocate for their interest irrespective of what the color of their skin is. And I think that is a strong message that has been sent in South Carolina. That's a strong message that's been sent in Texas and the Bari Sellers of the world. I mean, in his own home state of South Carolina, you can point to someone who disproves that error. And one other bit, uh, in that same geographic region, uh, that's where Clarence Thomas came from. And Clarence Thomas is soon going to be the longest serving Supreme Court justice in the history of our nation. He just in the last week or so, Buck, we talked about this some, but he has moved into the second longest Supreme Court justice serve and I believe in 2028, he will become the longest serving Supreme Court justice ever. So, I actually look at those as very positive stories. And the fact that CNN would of course not cover that aspect of this or that nobody on CNN would point back to Barakari Sers and say, "Wait a minute, Tim Scott's kind of got an important job in your home state. Um, why have you not talked about him?" I think speaks to the dishonesty of the much of the rhetoric rhetorics surrounding this.

[00:10:34]>> I think that is all very accurate. I I agree.