Stephen A. Smith Slams Biden for Having Fried Chicken Dinner With Black Family in NC: ‘We All Know About Racial Tropes’

Stephen A. Smith claimed it “ain’t the greatest look” that President Joe Biden’s campaign in North Carolina included a fried chicken dinner with a Black family.

A few weeks ago, Biden’s YouTube channel posted a video of the president getting food from the chain restaurant Cook Out in Raleigh. Biden was joined by Gov. Roy Cooper.

After picking up food from Cook Out, Biden brought it to the home of a man named Eric Fitts and his two sons. There, the four had dinner and discussed Biden’s plans for his second term.

Smith wasn’t a fan of the optics.

“First of all, we all know about racial tropes, do we not?” Smith said on Wednesday’s episode of The Stephen A. Smith Show. “Racist tropes. You ever heard of that? Where people sit up there and try to use things to intimate something else of a racially-insensitive nature? So Black folks with the president and fried chicken ain’t the greatest look.”

Smith also questioned Biden’s decision to eat fried chicken at the age of 81.

“What the hell are you doing eating fried chicken?” Smith continued. “You’re 81! What 81 you know is munching on fried chicken? You ain’t been in the greatest health in a lot of people’s eyes, you know; so eating some fried chicken ain’t the greatest look.”

Lastly, Smith predicted the video will provide Biden’s opponents with more than enough ammunition ahead of the election.

“I wanna know who the hell came out with that idea!” he said. “Because you [Donald Trump] and the GOP are gonna use that to they’re advantage, right? And they’ll be right to do so because, ladies and gentleman, if we’re being fair, if we saw Donald Trump sitting down in a Black household, eating fried chicken with a father and a son, what would we say? You know folks out there would be calling it racist! Well, if it’s racist for him — and I’m not saying it would be — but if it’s racist for him, why wouldn’t it be racist for Biden?”