CNN’s Sellers: White Supremacy Has Been Magnified and Lifted up with Trump

TAPPER: That’s the mayor of Charlottesville, Michael Signer, speaking just one week after that white supremacist rally, the tiki torch march through his town. Let’s talk about it all with our panel.

Bakari Sellers, let me ask you. Do you think that it’s true that everything changed for the country last weekend?

BAKARI SELLERS, CNN POLITICAL COMMENTATOR: Well, I think it was a tragic day for the country.

But white supremacy is not new. It didn’t start with Donald Trump. It has been magnified and lift up and put on another playing field.

But I don’t think anything has necessarily changed. It won’t change until individuals who don’t look like Nina and I decide that enough is enough. This isn’t a partisan issue.

And so many people confuse patriotism and prejudice. And what we saw on display was so much prejudice. And I hope that individuals especially white evangelicals in the United States of America decide to stand up and say enough is enough and Donald Trump is perverting in giving these individuals a platform and he should not.

That’s all we’re asking for.