What is Joe talking about?

 
During an event in the East Room of the White House marking Black History Month, President Joe Biden raised more than a few eyebrows with what many commentators are calling racially charged language.
“It’s important to say from the White House for the entire country to hear: history matters,” Biden said at the reception. “History matters and black history matters. I can’t just choose to learn what we want to know. We learn what we should know. We have to learn everything, the good, the bad, the truth, and who we are as a nation.”
“I may be a White boy, but I’m not stupid,” Biden added, drawing laughter from the audience.