Hillary Clinton returned to her criticisim of Bernie Sanders as a single-issue candidate in a speech on race in New York City Tuesday.
Joined by Congressman Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., Clinton argued Sanders’ economic approach wasn’t sufficient for racial justice.
“Flint reminds us that there is a lot more in our country that we should be concerned about,” Clinton said, aruging there was too much focus on Wall Street in the Democratic primary. “The truth is that we are not a single-issue country. And we’ve got to take them all on.”
“So it’s not enough for your economic plan to be break up the banks,” she added. “You’ve got to have an economic plan to help areas where unemployment is stubbornly high.”
Clinton is relying on black voters to deliver a strong victory in South Carolina after losing New Hampshire badly and only narrowly beating the Vermont socialist senator in Iowa.
“Any view of black America that focuses exclusively on crime or poverty is missing so much,” Clinton continued. “Missing the pride and achievement that is so evident on every street here.”
“We have to begin by facing up to the reality of systemic racism,” she argued. “These are not just problems of equality, they are problems of racial inequality.”
Clinton also met with civil rights leaders at the National Urban League in Manhattan to discuss criminal justice reform.
