Biden Calls Maryland’s First Black Governor ‘Boy’

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

Biden addressed a group of IBEW 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 frequently uses this term “boy” To refer to other people, such as Fox News Not notedAs Sen. Chris Coons (D–DE) said, “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 also spoke of Patrick Murphy, former U.S. Secretary to the Army. “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 Murphy and Coons can be described as white.

This was the way that Biden introduced Cedric Richmond (a senior advisor who is black) in August 2021. “I’m here with my senior adviser and boy who knows Louisiana very, very well and New Orleans, Cedric Richmond.”

Biden does not sound great, but Cedric Richmond is also here. “boy,” Something the left would lose if he was a Republican. “I’m here with — with my senior adviser and boy who knows Louisiana very, very well — man — and — and New Orleans, Cedric Richmond.” pic.twitter.com/T11qNAGJhu

— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) August 30, 2021

Biden said that he had worked in the past with segregationists and was now discussing this in 2019. “I was in a caucus with James O. Eastland. He never called me ‘boy,’ he always called me ‘son.’”

Biden was criticised for his comments. “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.”

New Jersey Democrat Senator Cory Booker urged Biden to apologise. “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 on ABC’s “This Week.”

Booker was added 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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