Vice President Joe Biden, speaking earlier today at the Chamber of Commerce, talked of inner city Detroit women from the “hood,” which is apparently slang for neighborhood:
“You know, I was out at UST-Global–I was out in–I went all around the country to take a look at some of the programs that were going on,” said Biden. “And I went to Detroit, which is just getting of its knees. I mean, Detroit has been battered. And there’s an outfit out–not there, it’s a national outfit–called UST-Global, and they’re in a sense (they do more than this) but part of what they do is, they’re a placement operation for large IT and small IT firms–I think you guys here at the Chamber know them.
“So they asked me to come by this program they had going on a community college in the inner city in Detroit. And I walked in and there was a–I think it was a, don’t hold me–I think it was a 15 week program. And there was a group of women from the neighborhood or from the ‘hood. Everyone of these women–the youngest was 24, I believe, and the oldest was 58–and there were about two dozen of them. And they had two more weeks to go…”
Biden has previously told this story, and has said the women were “minority women” from the “hood”:
