At a Black History Month event at the White House, Joe Biden made a cringe-worthy comment to the audience that rivaled his 2020 comment that African-American Trump supporters “ain’t black.”

At a White House event Monday evening, Biden awkwardly joked that the black House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) doesn’t talk to him anymore.

He then began to talk about his ties to the “Divine Nine,” a group of African American sororities and fraternities.

“I know real power when I see it. The Divine Nine,” said Biden, adding that all the presidents of the fraternity organizations were present at the event.

“By the way, I may be a white boy, but I’m not stupid,” he continued. “I know where the power is… you think I’m joking. I learned a long time ago about the Divine Nine.”

This is not the first time Biden has made uncomfortable comments about minorities.

Way back in 2007, Biden made a racist comment about Barack Obama while he was on his presidential campaign trail, saying that he was “the first sort of mainstream African American who is articulate and bright and clean,” adding, “That’s a storybook, man.”

In 2019, Biden was speaking about minority education when he inadvertently made “minority” synonymous with “poor.”

“We have this notion that somehow if you’re poor you cannot do it,” Biden said. “Poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as white kids.”

He then realized what he had said and tried to correct himself, adding, “white kids, black kids, Asian kids.”

In 2020, Biden also made the racist statement that African American voters who support Donald Trump “ain’t black,” implying that all black Americans must think, vote, and act in the same way.

Shortly after this statement, Biden doubled down, saying that black people were less diverse than Hispanics in their political thinking.

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