President Joe Biden is certainly flirting with disaster here, but he pulled it off. Speaking at Bowie State University in Maryland, a historically black college or university (HBCU), Biden told the students that they’re just as smart and just as bright as those students at other schools that have endowments. As we say, it was a risky line, seeing as Biden in 2019 told a crowd in Iowa that “poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as white kids.”
Biden to the crowd at an HBCU: "You're just as smart, you're just as bright, you're just as good as any college in America." pic.twitter.com/Hsf99MIDSQ
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) November 8, 2022
Close one.
Yikes
— Jewels (@JSanders174) November 8, 2022
This is insulting and patronizing.
— AP 🇺🇸 (@aa_perry) November 8, 2022
— Caroline Melear (@CarolineMelear) November 8, 2022
Keep him talking 😂😂😂
— Wayne O’Brien 🍊1776 (@WayneO361) November 8, 2022
Do they understand they’re being insulted??
— Ashley 🌹 (@ACubanRose) November 8, 2022
If you have to tell them that, they’re not.
— Autophage (@AutoPhagey) November 8, 2022
It’s sad he said this and even sadder they cheered
— McEnroe 🇺🇸 (@mcenroejack) November 8, 2022
Why do they still need reassurance from an old white dude that they matter? So cringey.
— Charlene (@00honeybee) November 8, 2022
How is this not considered an insult?
— Shackleford, Rusty (@Getofftheshedd) November 8, 2022
Well they cheered that back handed compliment
— SD🎗 (@SDannny44) November 8, 2022
— Bonnie (@BonBee81) November 8, 2022
So cringy you can hear his handlers quitting.
— TweetTee (@TCTWTS) November 8, 2022
Wow. That’s not condescending at all.
— R.J. Kendall 🇨🇦🇺🇸 (@RJ_Kendall) November 8, 2022
How people don't see this as so wrong is beyond me.
— Milissa (@miswojo1) November 8, 2022
“And you are all so very articulate!”
— multiply punished crow (@punishedcrowman) November 8, 2022
Classic Joe. pic.twitter.com/gKdjHuwK7K
— UnderFloorOwl (@UnderFloorOwl) November 8, 2022
But they cheered, so they must have thought it was a compliment of some sort.
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