On Friday’s episode of HBO’s “Real Time with Bill Maher,” Daily Wire Editor Emeritus Ben Shapiro stumped CNN commentator and former state Rep. Bakari Sellers (D-SC) in a debate on “systematic racism.”
First, Sellers took the stance that “systemic racism” in 2024 has made life worse for black Americans than it was during the time of Jim Crow laws, citing black home ownership statistics. “I can make the case for that being the welfare state,” Shapiro interjected.
Sellers then quickly argued that “systems of injustice and oppression” in the U.S., citing “food deserts,” poor infrastructure, and the lack of “clean water” in black areas.
“Bakari,” Shapiro again interjected, “is your life as a black man worse or better than it would have been had you been born in 1920?”
The CNN commentator suggested they are worse, saying his father “feels like things…
