President Biden used the word “boy,” a term considered to be racial epithet when used to describe black men, to refer to Democratic Gov. Wes Moore, Maryland’s first black governor, in a speech on Wednesday.
“You got a hell of a new governor in Wes Moore, I tell ya,” Biden said during remarks on the economy Wednesday to an audience of IBEW union workers in Lanham, Maryland.
“He’s the real deal, and the boy looked like he could still play. He got some guns on him,” Biden added, eliciting cheers from the crowd.
The 80-year-old president has been called out before for his use of the racially charged word.
Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) decried Biden’s use of “boy” on the campaign trail in 2019 in describing his ability to work with segregationist senators.
“You don’t joke about calling black men ‘boys,’ ” Booker said in a statement, blasting Biden for using the insensitive term.
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