{"id":1550370,"date":"2022-07-12T10:35:11","date_gmt":"2022-07-12T14:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1550370"},"modified":"2022-07-12T10:35:12","modified_gmt":"2022-07-12T14:35:12","slug":"hispanic-organization-criticizes-jill-biden-for-comparing-latinos-to-tacos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hispanic-organization-criticizes-jill-biden-for-comparing-latinos-to-tacos\/","title":{"rendered":"Hispanic Organization Criticizes Jill Biden for Comparing Latinos to Tacos"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhispanic-organization-criticizes-jill-biden-for-comparing-latinos-to-tacos%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1550370&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>First Lady <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-jill-biden\">Jill Biden<\/a> received criticism from a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-hispanic\">Hispanic<\/a> organization on Monday for comparing the Hispanic community to tacos,\u00a0prompting her to apologize.<\/p>\n<p>Biden\u2019s made an appearance at a San Antonio event called the\u00a0\u201cLatinX IncluXion\u201d luncheon, which uses the often-ridiculed term \u201clatinx.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRaul 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,\u201d she said at the event, commenting on UnidosUS President Raul Yzaguirre\u2019s work. Biden was also criticized for mispronouncing the word \u201cbodega.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At 9 a.m. on Tuesday, Biden\u2019s press secretary Michael LaRosa <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MichaelLaRosa46\/status\/1546841930495131649?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1546841930495131649%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&#038;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonexaminer.com%2Fnews%2Fjill-biden-apologizes-comments-hispanic-community\">wrote<\/a> on Twitter that \u201cthe First Lady apologizes that her words conveyed anything but pure admiration and love for the Latino community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The National Association of Hispanic Journalists on Monday responded and said her comment about tacos was inappropriate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are not tacos,\u201d wrote the organization in a statement, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nahj\/status\/1546646559529508865?s=21&#038;t=6u2maX78DVpKhEHH8-Ccsw\">adding<\/a> that it \u201cencourages \u2026 Biden and her speech writing team to take the time in the future to better understand the complexities of our people and communities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And Janet Murgu\u00eda, the head of UnidosUS, wrote that the group was \u201chonored\u201d to have Biden speak before saying: \u201cShe has been a great educator in, and a great amiga to, our community for years. Privileged to call her a friend.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Some conservative figures also responded to Biden\u2019s comments on social media, saying that the reaction to her remarks would have been stronger if she was a Republican.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo wonder Hispanics are fleeing the Democratic Party!\u201d wrote Rep. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.) on Twitter. \u201cImagine the regime media meltdown if a conservative called Hispanics \u2018breakfast tacos\u2019 like Dr. Jill Biden did at the Latinx Luncheon today. Democringe,\u201d wrote Christina Pushaw,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First Lady Jill Biden received criticism from a Hispanic organization on Monday for comparing the Hispanic community to tacos,\u00a0prompting her to apologize. Biden\u2019s made an appearance at a San Antonio event called the\u00a0\u201cLatinX IncluXion\u201d luncheon, which uses the often-ridiculed term \u201clatinx.\u201d \u201cRaul helped build this organization with the understanding that the diversity of this community, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1550370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1550370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1550370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1550370\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1550370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1550370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1550370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}