By The FirstPresident Biden once again drawing flack for racial comments made during a White House Black History Month event Monday, declaring ‘I might be a white boy, but I’m not stupid.”
Watch Biden’s comment below:
“It’s important to say from the White House for the entire country to hear: history matters,” Biden said at a reception celebrating black history month on Monday. “History matters and black history matters. I can’t just choose to learn what we want to know. We learn what we should know. We have to learn everything, the good, the bad, the truth, and who we are as a nation.”
“I may be a White boy, but I’m not stupid,” Biden added, drawing laughter from the audience.
This isn’t Biden’s first racial gaffes in recent weeks. During an event at a Union Hall in Maryland earlier this month, President Biden referred to the state’s newly elected Governor Wes Moore — who is Black — as “boy.”
“You got a hell of a new governor in Wes Moore, I tell ya,” Biden said during remarks on the economy. “He’s the real deal, and the boy looked like he could still play. He got some guns on him.”
