Symone Sanders, a political strategist and Democrat, has recently joined the campaign staff of former US Vice President Joe Biden who is now seeking to be elected president in 2020, even though a few years ago, she vocally opposed white people running the show in the Democratic Party, The Washington Free Beacon reports.
"In my opinion we don't need white people leading the Democratic Party right now. The Democratic Party is diverse, and it should be reflected as so in leadership and throughout the staff at the highest levels. From the vice chairs to the secretaries all the way down to the people working in the offices at the DNC", she said.
Sanders also added that she wants "to hear more from everybody… from the millennials and the brown folks", with the media outlet pointing out that Joe Biden "is neither brown nor a millennial".
And though Sanders did remark on Twitter that Biden "won’t always be perfect", news of her new position has resulted in quite a lot of raised eyebrows online as people recalled her previous comments and actions.
On 25 April, Joe Biden formally announced his decision to seek the Democratic Party's nomination for the 2020 US presidential election, sharing this news with the public via social media.
In response, US President Donald Trump slammed him as “Sleepy Joe” on Twitter, wondering aloud whether the latter has “the intelligence, long in doubt, to wage a successful primary campaign”.