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Biden State Department signals support for BLM flag to be flown at US embassies: report
Fox News ^ | 5-25-21 | Houston Keene

Posted on 05/26/2021 8:29:11 AM PDT by SJackson

The memo allows US diplomats to fly the Black Lives Matter flag outside of embassies

The Department of State under President Biden issued guidance to all "Diplomatic and Consular posts" encouraging official displays of support for Black Lives Matter (BLM) on the one-year anniversary of George Floyd’s murder on May 25 and beyond, according to a new report.

According to a leaked memo from an anonymous State Department source, the department wrote that it "supports the use of the term ‘Black Lives Matter’ in messaging content" as well as in speeches and foreign diplomatic engagements on May 25 "and beyond."

The memo allows U.S. diplomats to fly the Black Lives Matter flag outside of embassies. Fox News verified the authenticity of the memo first reported by Human Events, a conservative American political news and analysis newspaper and website.

Specifically, the memo acts as an "authorization" for agency higher-ups to "display the BLM flag on the external-facing flagpole to any Chiefs of Mission who determine such a display is appropriate in light of local conditions."

In a statement to Fox News on Tuesday, a spokesperson for the State Department said the agency does not "comment on the authenticity or veracity of allegedly leaked documents" as a general matter.

Similar to the BLM banner, Secretary of State Anthony Blinken also previously authorized embassies to fly the LGBTQ pride flag from May 17 through the end of June in recognition of Pride Month celebrations, reversing a Trump-era policy.

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1 posted on 05/26/2021 8:29:11 AM PDT by SJackson
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Unclear if this was just for the anniversary of Floyd’s death or it’s ongoing. Not sure I like the idea of flying private organizations flags, one supportive of terror groups like Hamas sends a bad message. Or perhaps the message Biden wants to send.


2 posted on 05/26/2021 8:29:52 AM PDT by SJackson (Whom will insane lust for power spare, if it dares violate ties of kin & friendship? Dominic Mancini)
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Burning Looting Mobs now have official government approval.


3 posted on 05/26/2021 8:30:27 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents)(Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: SJackson

But not the POW/MIA flag.....................


4 posted on 05/26/2021 8:33:46 AM PDT by Red Badger (Jesus said there is no marriage in Heaven. That's why they call it Heaven.....................)
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To: SJackson

Plantation owner tell the help he’s thinking of them.


5 posted on 05/26/2021 8:34:14 AM PDT by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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gf suicide?


6 posted on 05/26/2021 8:36:10 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this?)
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In case anyone still doubts we have Marxists in control of our corrupt government.


7 posted on 05/26/2021 8:36:14 AM PDT by NWFree (Somebody has to say it)
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How embarrassing to me as an American. So was the flying of an LGBT rainbow flag.


8 posted on 05/26/2021 8:37:45 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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How wonderful. And I am sure that the embassies will get the same flack they got when some of them hoisted the rainbow flag.

Having spent a significant amount of time in West Africa, I know that the view of Wets Africans toward African-Americans is dismissive at best, white hot hatred at the most. One decent man I knew in Sierra Leone actually advised us to get rid (he used a far more bloody word) of the American Blacks and to import people from his country who knew how to work and would consider it a blessing to be in America.

I am sure that the BLM flag flying outside the embassy in Freetown will bring forth an even stronger denunciation from him toward America in general and a certain population in particular.
9 posted on 05/26/2021 8:41:27 AM PDT by wbarmy (I chose to be a sheepdog once I saw what happens to the sheep.)
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Biden State Department signals support for BLM flag to be flown at US embassies: report,

Why not add the Red Hammer and Sickle and the Chinese Red Flag you paid for Communist Moron? BLM is a Marxist organization by their own public admission. Aiding and comforting our sworn enemies is TREASON!

10 posted on 05/26/2021 8:45:26 AM PDT by Don Corleone (leave the gun, take the canolis)
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Bookmark


11 posted on 05/26/2021 8:46:06 AM PDT by aquila48 (o not let them make you care! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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My cousin sent me a pic of a BLM banner in the window of our embassy in Greece. This was dated yesterday. I guess it is comforting that we are showing solidarity with all of the black population of Greece.
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12 posted on 05/26/2021 8:50:32 AM PDT by hanamizu
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Perhaps we’re showing support for BLM’s communist roots. I believe Greece still has a more active communist party than we do.


13 posted on 05/26/2021 8:57:10 AM PDT by SJackson (Whom will insane lust for power spare, if it dares violate ties of kin & friendship? Dominic Mancini)
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Fox News

Remind me again, have we heard of this outfit?

14 posted on 05/26/2021 8:58:06 AM PDT by AndyJackson
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Oh goodie....can we fly the Stars and Bars next month?...


15 posted on 05/26/2021 8:58:08 AM PDT by TnTnTn
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To: NWFree

I’ve never doubted it.


16 posted on 05/26/2021 9:10:57 AM PDT by HighSierra5
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17 posted on 05/26/2021 9:17:32 AM PDT by fishtank
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To: wbarmy

In my area the school district got three teachers from Jamaica and two from Africa. They got fussed at for telling the black students in the schools to stay away from their children.


18 posted on 05/26/2021 9:17:49 AM PDT by MissEdie (Be the Light in Someone's Darkness.)
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To: SJackson

We have been witnessing the end of America over the past 5 months. And our soldiers died for this?????


19 posted on 05/26/2021 9:25:44 AM PDT by Maudeen (https://thereishopeinJesus.com/)
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Was watching the discovery Channel last night- they have gone full blown floyd worship on that station now


20 posted on 05/26/2021 9:35:43 AM PDT by Bob434
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