Biden Calls Maryland’s First Black Governor ‘Boy’ | Eastern North Carolina Now

    Publisher's Note: This post appears here courtesy of the The Daily Wire. The author of this post is Hank Berrien.

    President Biden referred to new Maryland Democratic governor Wes Moore, the first black governor of his state, as "boy."

    Biden made his remarks before an audience of IBEW union workers.

    "You got a hell of a new governor in Wes Moore, I tell ya," Biden grinned. "He's the real deal, and the boy looked like he could still play. He got some guns on him."

    Biden routinely uses the term "boy" to refer to others, as Fox News noted, having said of Sen. Chris Coons (D-DE), "And Chris Coons, who has the seat I used to hold. Only difference is that he not only has a law degree, he has a divinity degree. The boy can preach."

    He has also said of former U.S. Secretary of the Army Patrick Murphy, "And my buddy, Patrick Murphy, former ... Secretary of the Army as well as a former congressman. And the boy stays in shape, man. Look at him."

    Both Coons and Murphy are white.

    In August 2021, Biden introduced senior adviser Cedric Richmond, who is black, this way: "I'm here with my senior adviser and boy who knows Louisiana very, very well and New Orleans, Cedric Richmond."

    In 2019, discussing having worked with segregationists in the Senate in the past, Biden stated, "I was in a caucus with James O. Eastland. He never called me 'boy,' he always called me 'son.'"

    Criticized for his remarks, Biden said, "To the extent that anybody thought that I meant something different, that is not what I intended it. It'd be wrong for anybody to intend that."

    But New Jersey Democrat Sen. Cory Booker called on Biden to apologize. "This is about him invoking a terrible power dynamic that he showed a lack of understanding or insensitivity to by invoking this idea that he was called 'son' by white segregationists who, yeah, they see in him their son," he said on ABC's "This Week."

    Booker added on CNN, "For his posture to be, 'I've done nothing wrong, you should apologize, I'm not a racist,' is so insulting and so missing the larger point that he should not have to have explained to him, that this is not a lesson that someone who is running for president of the united states should have to be given."

    "These are the kind of things that do cause hurt and harm," Booker added.

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Considering the renewed and unequalled dishonesty in elected politicians, at all levels of governing, and their associative nefarious bureaucrats doing their corrupt bidding: What is your opinion of YOUR government, and what do you intend to do about it?

  Today's overall government is just fine, and I will continue to vote for politicians that make promises to suit my individual needs.

  Today's overall government is poor, but I will continue to endeavor to learn what is true from the the most honest of media, and pick those representatives that best represent what is good and decent.

  I spend quite a bit of time on Eastern NC NOW; so ... I am having a far easier time separating the proverbial "wheat from the chaff" in finding honorable citizens to support.

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