First Lady Jill Biden landed in a pot of hot albondigas soup on Monday when she blurted out a typically tone-deaf, Bidenesque remark while burbling about “diversity.”
Hispanics in San Antonio, Texas, she said, are as diverse as “breakfast tacos,” a line that immediately invited the ire of “Latino activists.”
FLOTUS quickly apologized. But the damage was done. She sounded just like her husband. The gaffe makes one wonder just what type of “doctor,” as Biden amusingly bills herself because of her “education” doctorate, would make such a mistake.
Good thing is, she apologized on Taco Tuesday.
Breakfast Taco Diversity
FLOTUS Biden unbosomed herself of the metedura de pataI — gaffe in Spanish — in a speech on Monday to an outfit you’ve never heard of called UnidosUS. UnidosUS is a “Latino civil rights” group, meaning part of the Open Borders Lobby that advocates The Great Replacement.
That aside, Biden was in town to peddle the usual nonsense about “unity” and “diversity,” as Chron.com reported:
Biden said UnidosUS founder Raul Yzaguirre had formed the group “with the understanding that the diversity of this community, as distinct as the bodegas of the Bronx, as beautiful as the blossoms of Miami, and as unique as the breakfast tacos here in San Antonio, is your strength.” The first lady also mispronounced the Spanish word “bodega” during her remarks.
As Bart Simpson would say, “ay caramba.”
Professional Hispanics such as those in the National Association of Hispanic Journalists were hotter than a habanero pepper. They rushed to Twitter faster than Speedy Gonzalez when he ran to escape Gringo Pussy Cat Sylvester.
“Using breakfast tacos to try to demonstrate the uniqueness of Latinos in San Antonio demonstrates a lack of cultural knowledge and sensitivity to the diversity of Latinos in the region,” the outfit tweeted:
NAHJ encourages Dr. Biden and her speech writing team to take the time in the future to better understand the complexities of our people and communities.
We are not tacos. Our heritage as Latinos is shaped by a variety of diasporas, cultures and food traditions, and should not be reduced to a stereotype.
Again, on Taco Tuesday, FLOTUS apologized through her press spokesman.
“The First Lady apologizes that her words conveyed anything but pure admiration and love for the Latino community,” Michael La Rosa laconically tweeted.
NAHJ said gracias to Biden on Twitter.
Gaffe Machines
Biden’s blunder suggests she might have just as much trouble addressing the Democrat Party’s fringe minority groups as her husband, a gaffe machine with no equal.
“What you all know, and what most people don’t know,” he said of Hispanics in August 2020, “is that unlike the African American community, with notable exceptions, the Latino community is an incredibly diverse community with incredibly diverse attitudes about different things. You go to Florida, you find a very different attitude about immigration than you do in Arizona. So it’s a very diverse community.”
He had insulted blacks before that in May.
“I tell you what,” he told a black interviewer, “if you have a problem figuring out whether you’re for me or Trump, then you ain’t black.”
In 2008, he opined about his rival for the Democrat nomination, Barack Hussein Obama: “You got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that’s a storybook, man.”
Two years before that, Biden explained his friendship with East Indians:
I’ve had a great relationship. In Delaware, the largest growth in population is Indian-Americans moving from India. You cannot go to a 7-Eleven or a Dunkin’ Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent. I’m not joking.
No, he wasn’t. Neither was Dr. Jill.
