00:00 President Biden refers to rapper LL Cool J as "boy" while speaking to Congressional Black Caucus.
00:05 President Biden butchered LL Cool J's name and then referred to the rapper as "boy"
00:10 before quickly correcting himself while delivering a speech to the Congressional
00:14 Black Caucus on Saturday night. LL Cool J, whose birth name is James Todd Smith,
00:20 and MC Lyte received Phoenix Award for their musical contributions at the annual awards dinner
00:26 in Washington, D.C. during the CBC's 52nd annual legislative conference.
00:30 "Two of the great artists of our time representing the groundbreaking legacy of hip-hop in America,
00:36 LL J Cool J, uh," he said as the crowd laughed at the gaffe.
00:40 "By the way that boy, that man's got biceps bigger than my thighs," Biden added.
00:45 He blew past the blunder and acknowledged MC Lyte immediately after as the audience applauded.
00:52 RNC research quickly jumped on the gaffe, retweeting a clip of it with Biden's quote on
00:57 ex, former known as Twitter. "Oh God make it stop plllease. He's making a total mockery of
01:05 this country," ex-user @johnnypatriot64 replied to the post with the video.
01:10 The president has a history of referring to African Americans as "boy" a term considered
01:16 a racial epithet when used to describe black men. Earlier this year, Biden used the word while
01:22 referring to Maryland's first black governor, Wes Moore.
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