In a speech on Monday at Texas on the occasion of the annual conference UnitedUS 2022an advocacy organization for civil rights of Hispanics in the United States, the first lady of the United States said: “The diversity of this community, as different as the wineries of the Bronxas beautiful as the flowers of Miami and as unique as the breakfast tacos here at Saint AnthonyIt is your strength.”
The NAHJ reacted, visibly upset, saying that “using breakfast tacos to try to demonstrate the uniqueness of Latinos in San Antonio demonstrates a lack of cultural awareness and sensitivity toward the diversity of Latinos in the region.
Stereotype
More than 62 million Hispanics live in the United States, according to 2020 census data, but it is a very culturally diverse group.
“We are not tacos,” NAHJ, the largest organization of Latino journalists in the United States, protested on Twitter, urging Jill Biden and the team that writes the speeches “to take the time in the future to better understand the complexities of our people and communities.
“Our heritage as Latinos is shaped by a variety of diasporas, cultures and culinary traditionsand should not be reduced to a stereotype,” he adds.
In the middle of the pre-election period facing the mid-term legislative elections Republicans joined the criticism in November.
In a tweet, the Republican congressman Carlos Gimenez stated that Hispanics “are not a monolith.” “We are a very real and diverse people shaped by different histories, food and even variations in language. We have dreams and aspirations. We want education, work and get ahead,” she insisted.
The criticism forced Jill Biden to apologize. “The First Lady apologizes, her words only conveyed pure admiration and love for the Latino community,” she reacted in a tweet from her spokesperson Michael LaRosa.
Source: Ambito
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