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.
Well everybody knows that light-skinned blacks are more intelligent than dark-skinned blacks.
Why has a virulent hate-whitey "black activist" culturally appropriated a White English surname?
"Smith" is derived from the Anglo-Saxon smitan, meaning "to smite or strike." Smith and its derivations are an occupational name for a man who works with metal (smith or blacksmith).
Why has a lazy, do-nothing "black activist" who has never done a day of honest labor occupationally appropriated the name of a brawny, hard-working MAN?
She should be ashamed of herself. She should find a good Watusi word for "lazy, no-good, rabble-rousing, pot-stirrer" to appropriate.
And SHE is just fine with that. Sorry for the mis-gendering.
I have said it before: The US State Department was the heavily Communist-infiltrated department within the US government. Its personnel are a legacy of that infiltration.
Pretty much ALL of State needs to go.
If you don’t have the brains or back ground for the job just say your a race expert and the other flunkies will hire you.
Suck up hour Fridays 5 to 8 be there.
A clean sweep house cleaning is way overdue.
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I’m not optimistic that it will happen.
GOP is too weak to ever do it.
The party has no real interest in doing what needs to be done.
Biden. Number one for the most American hating president in the nation’s history. There has never been a person more openly hostile to America than this chomo. Even Obama pretended to like America as he bowed to other leaders. But Biden. He openly hates everything American.
Majority of three year olds are more intelligent than all experts
I’m going to become a professional white activist.
That should be fine then as well.
Why if she wearing oppressive white people’s clothes.
Shouldn’t she be wearing a dishiki?
In Swahili the word is "obama".
Desirée Cormier Smith = Desires Commie Sh*t...
She said that as a minority woman, she was “probably better prepared than my male colleagues, certainly my European-American colleagues.”
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“She’s a racist, Jim!”
UGH!! Wow.
LOL! You are right! That’s the very word I was looking for.
YEP! They have to prove they are “black enough” to be part of BLM and the movement. The light skinned blacks have chips on their shoulders.
yep her head is 3 sizes too big with all that air
Ooh, another racist promoted to the State Dept. Ought to be right at home there.
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