Desirée Cormier Smith
Posted on 06/22/2022 6:54:29 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
The Biden State Department this month named its first ever special representative for racial equity and justice.
The newly minted envoy, Desirée Cormier Smith, once slammed white diplomats for being overly "protective" of the United States and lacking the "empathy" of their minority counterparts.
Smith, a self-described "Black activist," made the comments in an October 2020 interview. At the time, Smith served as senior policy adviser for Open Society Foundations, the think tank funded by Democratic billionaire donor George Soros. The State Department on Friday announced Smith’s appointment to the post, which was created to "confront systemic racism and injustice around the world." The State Department described Smith as a "racial justice expert with a deep and steadfast commitment to equity and justice for all."
Smith may have to temper her racially charged views in her new role. The State Department prohibits statements that show "hostility toward an individual because of his or her race." Department guidelines also prohibit discriminatory harassment in the form of "racial epithets, ‘jokes,' offensive or derogatory comments, or other verbal or physical conduct based on an individual's race/color."
In an interview with the Black Diplomats podcast, Smith discussed her earlier work as a foreign service officer. She said her white colleagues displayed an "ownership" mentality when awarding visas to foreign applicants. White diplomats, Smith said, "were so protective of the United States, and they didn't want anybody who could sully the image of the United States because it's this perfect shining city on a hill."
"We also come with a certain humility that I would say that a lot of white foreign service officers lack," Smith said of her fellow minority diplomats. "We approached it with so much more empathy."
Smith has spoken openly about her activist role at Foggy Bottom, where she has served as senior adviser in the Bureau of International Organization Affairs.
"Black activists like myself are still working through the United Nations to defend human rights and freedoms for all," Smith wrote in a column for the Grio in March. She said she worked "relentlessly" to elect a critical race theory scholar, Justin Hansford, to the United Nations Permanent Forum of People of African Descent.
Smith is not the only Biden State Department official to come under fire for controversial statements.
Gina Abercrombie-Winstanley, the department’s chief diversity and inclusion officer, complained in a 2020 podcast interview about the "white male-dominated" national security field. She said that as a minority woman, she was "probably better prepared than my male colleagues, certainly my European-American colleagues."
Jalina Porter, who until recently served as deputy spokeswoman at Foggy Bottom, has said the "largest threat to U.S. national security are U.S. cops." Porter left the State Department earlier this month.
A clean sweep house cleaning is way overdue.
Coming from someone that Hates Everything and Everybody
Most of the diplomats are homosexuals, including the one Hillary let be murdered because he knew too much.
“...special representative for racial equity and justice...”
Why am I not surprised?
Desirée Cormier Smith
The State Department described Smith as a “racial justice expert with a deep and steadfast commitment to equity and justice for all.”
One day these ignorant, hateful fools will beg American farm boys to save them.
Aren’t diplomats supposed to represent their countries interests? I know Cuba and Soviet reps spoke well of their leaders and pushed thier agenda. If a Commie can at least do that why can’t ours as well?
And farm girls.
The draft registration is about to be expanded to women - whatever they are.
'Black activist' - FU and your 'black activism'.
State is the swamp of the swamp. These race hustlers need to be kicked out to the last.
Good grief !!!
dividing the country is her game.
What they need is an enema.
It’s always the light-skinned ones.
Its probably too late for that. The ideologues are so entrenched, so deeply in control of the Washington DC bunker and all its institutions (and money), the only likely scenario is some sort of vicious collapse (ie. defeat of their ideology) followed by a kind of "de-nazification."
Why is the most radical ‘blacks’ are the ones who look the most white?
I got an idea.
Fire all State Department employees.
Never mind.
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