Democrat presidential hopeful Joe Biden bragged to voters in Des Moines, Iowa that “women of color” in “the hood” learned to code thanks to an educational program he supported.
“Through a program, we had through community colleges, we can teach people how to code,” Biden said. “We went out, literally into the hood, and they found, turns out, 54 [people], they happened to be all women, the vast majority were women of color, no more than a high school degree, aged 25-54, and a third of them only had GEDs.”
Biden has told variations of this story on other occasions, always using the word “hood” to describe urban Detroit neighborhoods.