BREAKING NEWS – New York City, New York – Stephen A. Smith scolded President Biden for recently sharing a fried chicken dinner with a Black family, saying it wasn’t “the greatest look” and admitting former President Trump would have been deemed racist for doing the same thing.
Earlier this month, President Biden joined a Black family in North Carolina at their home to eat with a man named Eric and his two sons. In a YouTube video posted by the president’s campaign, they picked up food from Cook Out, a popular chain known for burgers, BBQ and chicken. Biden told the kids he got them chicken fingers, and said he ordered a hamburger for himself, but the optics of fried chicken on the table irked the ESPN host.
“First of all, we all know about racial tropes, do we not? Racist tropes. You ever heard of that? Where people sit up there and try to use things to intimate something else of a racially insensitive nature. So Black folks with the president and fried chicken ain’t the greatest look,” Smith said on “The Stephen A. Smith Show.”
President Biden responded to Smith’s assessment. “I have done anything recently, that I haven’t done in the past,” began Biden. “Ok, I had some fried chicken with a black family. When I have dinner with a Hispanic family, I have tacos, and with an Italian family, it’s always spaghetti. Look, I know for a fact that all three of these cultures eat the exact same thing, two out of their three meals every day for the entire lives. So, I don’t understand Mr. Smith’s criticism.”