“We are not tacos.”
WASHINGTON — Jill Biden apologized Tuesday for saying Latinos are “as unique” as San Antonio breakfast tacos during a speech to the nation’s largest Hispanic civil rights and advocacy organization.
The first lady flew to San Antonio on Monday to address the annual conference of UnidosUS, a Latino civil rights and advocacy group formerly known as the National Council of La Raza. She also badly mispronounced “bodegas,” small stores in urban areas typically specializing in Hispanic groceries. and others registered their offense on social media, with the journalists’ organization tweeting that,
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