CNN commentator Bakari Sellers clashed with Shark Tank investor Kevin O’Leary on Monday over GOP redistricting and told O’Leary, “Don’t be a d***.”
“What I’m telling you is that there are people in this country that fought, died, and bled for the right to vote. Don’t be a d***,” Sellers said on CNN’s NewsNight With Abby Phillip.
The pushback from Sellers came after O’Leary’s comment, “At the end of the day, the state decides at the state level, it’s in the Constitution, get over it.”
Sellers then said that O’Leary is 71 years old and lived through Brown v. Board of Education and argued that there is still a generation alive who remembers.
O’Leary asked what Sellers’s point was.
“My point is that my mother was born in 1951. She desegregated schools. My father was shot in the civil rights movement,” Sellers said.
In the middle of Sellers’s sentence, O’Leary said, “And?”
Sellers fired back, “I’m going to finish because you’re being utterly disrespectful.”
O’Leary replied, “Not at all.”
“What I’m telling you is that there are people in this country that fought, died, and bled for the right to vote. Don’t be a d***, just understand —,” Sellers said, and O’Leary cut him off.
“I’m not a d***, I’m pointing something out to you. The Constitution is being upheld. Do you have a problem with that? Do you have a problem with the Constitution of the United States of America?” O’Leary said.
Host Abby Phillip interjected and said, “Bacari, I’m going to stop you because I just want everybody to reset.”
“That’s Mr. D*** to you, buddy,” O’Leary said over Sellers.
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Sellers continued and said that black representation in the South remains inadequate, arguing that too few leaders who truly reflect and understand these communities are being sent to Congress to represent them.
O’Leary argued that voters still have access to a ballot box regardless.
