Bakari Sellers: At the End of the Day, ‘Thoughts and Prayers’ Have Led Us to Having More of These Deaths

PHILLIP: “Bakari, earlier in the show, we played the sound bite from the principal who said, you know, this African proverb, when you pray, move your feet.”
SELLERS: “Yeah.”
PHILLIP: “There are many people who want feet to move in the direction of actually addressing what’s going on here, rather than just saying it’s just something that happens here.”
SELLERS: “Yeah, but, I mean, I think we’re kind of past that. I mean, most people realize that when you were able to kill 20 some odd young white children in Sandy Hook and nothing changed, that nothing was really going to fundamentally change in this country. This is another sad tragedy. But the problem is that there’s an outrage from the right about Jacob Frey. And I’m not a huge Jacob Frey, mayor of Minneapolis, I’m not a huge fan, but he was right. I mean, the Book of James teaches us that faith without works is dead. And so whether or not he was echoing that sentiment or echoing that scripture, I think that there are a lot of people who were tired of thoughts and prayers because at the end of the day, thoughts and prayers ring hollow. At the end of the day, thoughts and prayers have led us to having more of these deaths, more of these shootings, more of these individuals who were killed inside of churches, inside of schools, or in pews. And so — “