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Biden racial ‘high school diplomas’ gaffe conveniently cleaned up in official WH transcript

September 16, 2023 | | Print Article

President Joe Biden has once again said something deemed racist, and both his administration and its media allies are once again covering it up.

Speaking about the U.S. economy during a speech Thursday at Prince George’s Community College in Maryland, the president inferred that blacks and Hispanics lack even a high school education.

“We’ve seen record lows in unemployment particularly — and I’ve focused on this my whole career — particularly for African Americans and Hispanic workers and veterans, you know, the workers without high school diplomas,” he said.

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The remarks prompted a massive backlash on social media, with critics decrying Biden’s continual, habitual racism.

Below is a small sample of the backlash:

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Yet the backlash has been limited solely to social media, as the entire establishment press (ABC, NBC, CBS, NYT, WaPo, AP, etc.) has chosen to ignore the president’s remarks.

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Meanwhile, the administration itself has tried to cover it up by completely distorting what he’d said.

Here’s what the official White House transcript of Thursday’s speech says the president said: “We’ve seen record lows in unemployment, particularly — and I’ve focused on this my whole career — particularly for African Americans and Hispanic workers and veterans, you know, and the workers without high-school diplomas. The lowest unemployment rate in 70 years for women now.”

Except he never said “and.”

It appears the White House added the conjunction to the sentence to make it seem like the “workers without high-school diplomas” was separate and not meant to describe “African Americans and Hispanic workers and veterans.”

(Source: White House)

This isn’t the first time the president’s made a racist remark — nor will it likely be his last.

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The Heritage Foundation notes that he in fact “has a decades-long habit of making overtly racist remarks, taking discriminatory positions and cavorting with known racists.”

“Just a few days ago, while lamenting the difficulty in convincing many Latinos and blacks to take the COVID vaccine, he committed a series of racially charged blunders that barely registered in the corporate media’s consciousness,” a report published by the publication on July 7th, 2021 reads.

The piece was published around the time the president claimed Latinos and Hispanics are averse to the COVID vaccine because “they’re worried that they’ll be vaccinated and deported.” The suggestion was that all Hispanics are illegal aliens versus law-abiding U.S. citizens.

It was also published around the time the Biden administration started using the term Latinx to refer to Hispanics.

“While insulting such a sizable segment of our population, Biden actually went further. He referred to this group of people as ‘Latinx,’ which is a term invented by woke academics who objected to gender-specific words in the Spanish language,” the Heritage Foundation reported.

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“Just 3% of Latinos use ‘Latinx’ to describe themselves and less than a quarter have even heard of the term, according to the Pew Research Center. Many find it to be an offensive bastardization of the Spanish language,” the foundation added.

But there’s more. Remember how, during a 2020 radio show interview with Charlamagne tha God, the then-Democrat presidential candidate said that any black person who didn’t vote for him “ain’t black”?

That same year, he said that “unlike the African American community, with notable exceptions, the Latino community is an incredibly diverse community with incredibly different attitudes about different things.”

The foundation noted in its report that the media would have never in a million years let former President Donald Trump, a  Republican, get away with such bigoted, smallminded remarks: “It does not take much effort to imagine the media’s reaction if Donald Trump had mangled so many racial issues in one press conference.”

Conversely, the foundation reported, “Biden has been getting away with this for years.”

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