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Watch: Jill Biden slammed after calling Latinos ‘breakfast tacos’

The first lady has faced backlash over a metaphor comparing Hispanics to a Mexican dish

First Lady Jill Biden was criticized after stating that Latinos are akin to “breakfast tacos,” with a major Hispanic activist organization slamming the remark as a disrespectful stereotype, while conservative critics mocked the comparison.

Speaking during a yearly event for UnidosUS – the country’s largest Latino advocacy group – in Texas on Monday, Biden hailed the efforts of the organization’s president, Raul Yzaguirre, attempting to draw colorful metaphors to illustrate the diversity among Hispanics.

“Raul helped build this organization 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 said, drawing a faint laugh from the crowd.

While conservative opponents quickly took aim at the clip, some lambasting Biden’s botched pronunciation of ‘bodega’ (small, often Latino-owned convenience stores common to New York City), the National Association of Hispanic Journalists offered a more serious critique, insisting “we are not tacos.”

“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 group said in a statement, adding, “Our heritage as Latinos is shared by a variety of diasporas, cultures and food traditions, and should not be reduced to a stereotype.”

Christina Pushaw, who serves as press secretary for Florida’s Republican governor, Ron DeSantis, argued that there would have been a “regime media meltdown” if a conservative had made similar comments, while an aide to Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) asked whether any of Biden’s speechwriters had “won a bet for getting the first lady to say something like this.”

President Joe Biden’s approval ratings among Hispanics have taken a major hit in recent months, plummeting from 55% last year to just 26% in May, according to polling conducted by Quinnipiac University. It’s unclear what accounts for the falling figures, but progressive Democrats have slammed the administration’s border policies, including a Monday decision to extend legal protections for only some Venezuelan migrants who fled to the US from their home country.

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    • 10% each to the big guy aka Pedo and his wife JB according the leaked Hunter Bidens emails. Media is getting their share of the loot from Globalist Big Corps and so they will not make such headlines. Big Tech is censoring a lot and you cant even search using certain terms.

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