A CNN political commentator, who previously served as a top Biden campaign aide, was blasted on social media over a comment discussing the death of O.J. Simpson and what he “represented” to the “Black community.”
“He wasn’t a social justice leader, but he represented something for the Black community in that moment in that trial, particularly because there were two White people killed,” Ashley Allison, who served as a senior policy adviser in the Obama White House and served as the national coalitions director for the 2020 Biden-Harris campaign, said. “And the history around how Black people have been persecuted during slavery. There were just so many layers.
“I guess I would just close with this. There was racial tension then, there is racial tension now. It might not be the backdrop of the Trump campaign, but until this country is ready to actually have an honest conversation about the racial …