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Biden slammed for botching rapper LL Cool J’s name, calling him ‘boy’
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September 25, 2023
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0:34Now PlayingCritics ripped President Biden this past weekend after he butchered the name of rapper LL Cool J during the Congressional Black Caucus’ Phoenix Awards Saturday night — and referred to him as “boy” before hastily correcting himself.
“‘Boy’ is a white racist word. Joe Biden knows this,” radio host Charlamagne tha God said on Monday. “That’s why he corrected himself, but I’m gonna tell you what I found egregious. The fact that Joe Biden got LL Cool J’s name wrong to begin with.”
The left-wing host of “The Breakfast Club” went on to play a clip from the TV sitcom “Good Times,” where the actor Michael Evans had said “‘Boy’ is a white racist word.”
“He fully understands the word ‘boy’ in a racial context around a white man referring to a black man as ‘boy,’” Charlamagne added, before pivoting to attack the 80-year-old president over his age.
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