Former Vice President Joe Biden remarked in an interview released Thursday that “unlike the African American community, with notable exceptions, the Latino community is an incredibly diverse community.”
Biden was addressing the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) and National Association of Hispanic Journalists (NAHJ) Joint Virtual Convention. Portions of the interview were aired Wednesday, and the full video was streamed Thursday.
National Public Radio’s Lulu Garcia-Navarro asked Biden about whether he would stop the deportation of Cubans.
“I’m going to look at every single country in the world … this guy [President Donald Trump] is sending them back,” Biden said, promising to extend the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) program on his first day in office — one of several such first-day promises Biden has made.
Garcia-Navarro followed up, asking whether Biden would attempt to restore the Obama-Biden administration’s policy of improving relations with communist Cuba.
“Yes,” he said.
Biden then went on to add:
“And by the way, what you all know, but most people don’t know, unlike the African American community, with notable exceptions, the Latino community is an incredibly diverse community, with incredibly different attitudes about different things … it’s a very diverse community.”
Biden attempted to explain that point by arguing that Latinos in Florida and Arizona had different views on immigration.
Garcia-Navarro did not ask Biden why he thought the black community was not diverse. She moved on to a different topic.
Katrina Pierson, a senior adviser to the president’s reelection campaign, tweeted an outraged response:
Hey media – Are you guys gonna cover this or continue to pretend that this is acceptable?
— Katrina Pierson (@KatrinaPierson) August 6, 2020
There are only 3 words to describe these disgusting comments from @JoeBiden: RACIST AF https://t.co/F6fMCTu6gr
Joe Biden: ‘Unlike the African American Community … the Latino Community Is an Incredibly Diverse Community‘ https://t.co/mceJwwG7aV via @BreitbartNews. Wow! Joe Biden just lost the entire African American community. What a “dumb” thing to say!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 6, 2020
Can anyone explain to me how Joe Biden can get away with calling a black journalist "a junkie" AND then saying that practically all black people are the same in the span of two days without the media caring at all?
— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) August 6, 2020
Can you imagine if his last name was Trump instead of Biden?
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Joe Biden's gives racist answers because he is a racist.
— Brigitte Gabriel (@ACTBrigitte) August 6, 2020
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