Zerlina Maxwell: ‘The Biden Campaign Wants to Only Talk About the Eight Years He Was VP’

‘But Barack Obama came to become the president in a moment that was very different than the moment we are in right now in terms of race’

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MAXWELL: “I also want to add another thing. The Biden campaign wants to only talk about the eight years that he was Vice President for Barack Obama. But Barack Obama came to become the president in a moment that was very different than the moment we’re in right now in terms of race. We were talking about a post-racial America, Steve. That doesn’t exist and didn’t exist at the time. But yet, that was the conversation we were having. So I think Joe Biden just needs to sort of get a little bit more current with how we are actually talking about race, how we are discussing policy issues that impact communities of color. And that way he can say things that will resonate with those constituencies."

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