8/6/2020

AFRICAN AMERICANS/JOE BIDEN/LATINOS: “Former Vice President Joe Biden has come under fire for comparing diversity in African American and Latino communities during an interview released Thursday.

The former vice president was asked about his view toward normalizing relations with Cuba and pivoted into an explanation of his belief on the differences of opinion between the two communities…

The Biden campaign said that the former vice president does not view the African American community as a monolithic one and stressed that Biden was referring to a diversity of outlooks on immigration policy within the Latino community.”

-Joe Biden as quoted by Molly Nagle and John Verhovek, “Biden faces backlash for comparing diversity in African American, Latino communities,” abcnews.go.com, Aug. 6, 2020