Just like many aspects of America’s response to the coronavirus pandemic, the left has turned the vaccine rollout into a political debate. Namely, it has spent its time prioritizing race over proven health risks in determining who should receive the vaccine first.
With his latest comment on the issue, President Joe Biden may have gone too far for his liberal allies.
“Not everybody in the Hispanic and the African-American community, particularly in rural areas that are distant and/or inner-city districts, knows how to get online to determine how to get in line for that COVID vaccination,” Biden said during a CNN town hall Tuesday night at the Pabst Theater in Milwaukee.
That sure sounded like the president was saying he believes certain minority groups don’t know how to use the internet.
In an apparent attempt to defend the decision to prioritize minorities rather than the elderly, Biden has now extended racial stereotypes and suggested that minorities cannot perform simple tasks online.
The president’s claim is not only insulting but also false, according to a 2019 article by the Pew Research Center. While Hispanics and African-Americans may be less likely to own a physical computer, they “have mobile devices such as smartphones in shares similar to whites,” it said.
The Pew survey found that 82 percent of white adults, 80 percent of black adults and 79 percent of Hispanic adults said they owned a smartphone.