CNN's Bakari Sellers Claims the Only Difference' Between USA in 1896 and 2026 Is Klan Hoods Being Swapped' for Brooks Brothers Suits

"Sellers agreed it was chaos, then said he wanted to take a 50,000 foot view of the country. And what he sees is America looking just like the Jim Crow South of the late 19th Century. I think for Black millennials, the progress that our parents and grandparents gave us that we're watching being ripped away from us is something that our generation is going to have to really wrestle with, and figuring out how we get out of this conundrum, Sellers said."

"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 swapped out Klan hoods for Brooks Brothers suits. And that is the problem. Sellers went on to say he's hearing a lot of casual laughter from right-wingers about the redistricting victories."

"But he said that was only showing their true colors that they were comfortable with Black Americans in the South being silenced. That was one of two moments from Sellers that went fairly viral from Monday night's show. Sellers also told Kevin O'Leary don't be a d*ck after Sellers lectured him about the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education case."

"We're going beyond new maps here, we're tinkering with the calendar, people are voting, maybe those votes get thrown out. It's chaos, Phillip said. Sellers agreed it was chaos, then said he wanted to take a 50,000 foot view of the country. And what he sees is America looking just like the Jim Crow South of the late 19th Century."

Republican redistricting victories and related legal challenges were framed as part of a broader pattern affecting voting rights. Louisiana’s Supreme Court ruling found racial gerrymandering violated the 1965 Voting Rights Act, and Alabama was described as planning a new map that would favor Republicans while eliminating a Black district. Bakari Sellers characterized the current era as resembling the Jim Crow South of the late 1800s, arguing that progress for Black Americans is being reversed. He said right-wing laughter about these outcomes reflects comfort with silencing Black Americans in the South. He also criticized dismissive behavior toward civil rights history, referencing Brown v. Board of Education.

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