CNN’s Bakari Sellers Cracks Up Colleagues Riffing On Trump ‘Turned Black’ Attack: ‘When I Heard Back That Azz Up’

CNN analyst Bakari Sellers cracked up his colleagues by riffing on former President Donald Trump’s attack on Vice President Kamala Harris , telling them when it was he first “turned Black.”

On Wednesday, Trump made what has widely been viewed as a trainwreck appearance at the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) convention, where he participated in a Q&A session that ended abruptly.

Among other things, Trump falsely claimed Harris once identified exclusively as “Indian-Americian” until “all of a sudden she made a turn and she became a Black person.”

“I didn’t know she was Black until a number of years ago when she happened to turn Black,” Trump said.

Harris clapped back hours later at a speech in Houston.

On Thursday’s edition of CNN News Central , anchor Omar Jimenez asked Sellers how he thought the VP handled Trump’s attack:

OMAR JIMENEZ: Gentlemen, good to see you. Bakari, I’m half Columbian, but for the purposes of this panel, I guess I will be Black. How do you think Vice President Harris handled her response to Trump?

BAKARI SELLERS: No, I think that this is an amazing moment in American TV history, because we can all tell the audience at that time we “turned Black.”

For me, it was about ’99, 2000 when I first heard Juvenile’s “Back That Azz Up,” and I had a rhythmic cadence to my dance.

(LAUGHTER).

At that moment, I knew I was Black!

But look, I just think Kamala did what she was supposed to do. Like, you got to be a leader focused on the future. You got to be a leader focused on tomorrow. And that’s what she — that’s what she’s doing.

For me — and I said this a number of times, and it bears repeating — not everyone who supports Donald Trump is a racist. And we can’t lump people together like that.

But I can say that Donald Trump is a racist, and I can say that he uses racism as a political currency.

And just the sheer audacity to go into the National Association of Black Journalists, in their convention, in front of their face, in front of three journalists who, who did the best they could do yesterday.

Or two of the three did the best they could do yesterday, and insult a Black woman in that manner. I just think it is, is a place where this country doesn’t want to go back. And that’s why Kamala Harris keeps saying, we’re not going back to that.

Watch above via CNN News Central .