{"id":1550769,"date":"2022-07-12T14:04:05","date_gmt":"2022-07-12T18:04:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1550769"},"modified":"2022-07-12T14:04:58","modified_gmt":"2022-07-12T18:04:58","slug":"hispanic-journalists-scold-first-lady-we-are-not-tacos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hispanic-journalists-scold-first-lady-we-are-not-tacos\/","title":{"rendered":"Hispanic Journalists Scold First Lady: \u2018We Are Not Tacos\u2019"},"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\">18<\/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-journalists-scold-first-lady-we-are-not-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=1550769&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 Jill Biden got a little ahead of Taco Tuesday in a Monday night speech on Hispanic diversity in San Antonio when she compared the Latino community to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SteveGuest\/status\/1546582862450802688\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201cbreakfast tacos.\u201d<\/a> Needless to say, the ethnic group she was pandering to wasn\u2019t too impressed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRaul [Yzaguirre] helped build this organization,\u201d Biden said, referring to the progressive nonprofit UnidosUS, \u201cwith the understanding that the diversity of this community \u2014 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 \u2014 is your strength.\u201d The first lady also had a little trouble with the word referring to Hispanic grocery stores too, mispronouncing them \u201cBO-ge-duhs.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"s9aDy1pEb4u7tkvY2DFane7fAKX96F6TlYEmZ53Ndhxw0HGVIMdmPPCqrIOg5R8fQipcQsu0ybXGBojTzM2z\"><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Jill Biden just said Hispanics are as \u201cunique\u201d as tacos. <\/p>\n<p>This isn\u2019t Veep. Which White House speechwriter just won a bet for getting the First Lady to say something like this?<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DXfJgYz0g5\">pic.twitter.com\/DXfJgYz0g5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SteveGuest\/status\/1546582862450802688?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 11, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>It turns out deriving strength from breakfast taco-like diversity isn\u2019t really what Latinos are going for, with the National Association of Hispanic Journalists firing back in no uncertain terms: \u201cWe are not tacos.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNAHJ encourages [First Lady Jill Biden] &#038; her communications team to take time to better understand the complexities of our people &#038; communities,\u201d the association <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nahj\/status\/1546646559529508865?s=21&#038;t=1ozqVQwvKxvnjAB4kF2KTw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">tweeted<\/a>, adding, \u201cDo not reduce us to stereotypes.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"712\" height=\"855\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/image-9.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-275595\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/image-9.png 712w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/image-9-250x300-1.png 250w\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>The first lady\u2019s taco gaffe comes as her husband\u2019s approval rating dwindles among Hispanics, with a <a href=\"https:\/\/poll.qu.edu\/images\/polling\/us\/us06082022_ughd88.pdf\">poll<\/a> last month showing just 24 percent approve of President Joe Biden.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday morning, the first lady\u2019s spokesman <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MichaelLaRosa46\/status\/1546841930495131649\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">tweeted<\/a> an apology on her behalf, saying she \u201capologizes that her words conveyed anything but pure admiration and love for the Latino community.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"716\" height=\"381\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/image-11.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-275599\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/image-11.png 716w, https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/image-11-300x160.png 300w\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>This is not Jill Biden\u2019s first faux pas with Hispanics. At an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-9425723\/Jill-Biden-mocked-social-media-mispronounces-Spanish-speech.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">event honoring Cesar Chavez<\/a> last year, Biden attempted to rally her Latino listeners with the cry, \u201c\u00a1Si, se puede!\u201d (Yes, we can!), but she only got two syllables in before butchering the Spanish verb. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><\/figure>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<p>\n  Beth Whitehead is an intern at The Federalist and a journalism major at Patrick Henry College where she fondly excuses the excess amount of coffee she drinks as an occupational hazard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First Lady Jill Biden got a little ahead of Taco Tuesday in a Monday night speech on Hispanic diversity in San Antonio when she compared the Latino community to \u201cbreakfast<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":845,"featured_media":1897751,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1550769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_finder_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/07\/12\/hispanic-journalists-scold-first-lady-we-are-not-tacos\/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=hispanic-journalists-scold-first-lady-we-are-not-tacos","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1550769","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\/845"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1550769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1550769\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1897751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1550769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1550769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1550769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}