'We are not tacos,' Jill Biden told as Hispanic remark backfires
Washington (AFP) - A culturally insensitive comment by US First Lady Jill Biden which spread like wildfire across social media prompted a White House apology Tuesday and outrage from a group which insisted Hispanics "are not tacos." During a speech Monday in Texas, Biden hailed the state's diversity as being "as distinct as the bodegas of the Bronx, as beautiful as the blossoms of Miami, and as unique as the breakfast tacos here in San Antonio." Her remark may have been a nod to a popular dish in heavily Hispanic southern Texas but it fell flat as a pancake, quickly becoming a focus of derisio...