"When we raise issues of equity and justice at the global scale we have to approach them with humility... We have to acknowledge that we are an imperfect union and have been since the beginning and every day we strive to make ourselves more perfect," she said.
Thomas-Greenfield recounted of how the Ku Klux Klan would burn crosses on her neighbours' lawns, and she has for herself seen "how the original sin of slavery weaved white supremacy into our founding documents and principles."
She also said racism is a problem "of the racist and it is the problem of the society that produces the racist."
She said that it was "every society" in today's world that dealt with those issues, and that those types of behaviors lead to the death of George Floyd, and other black Americans.
"That's why the Biden administration has made racial equity a top priority across the entire government and I'm making it a real focus on my tenure at the U.S. mission to the United Nations," she continued.
Thomas-Greenfield formerly worked in the Foreign Service for over 30 years, and held an ambassadorship in Liberia from 2008 to 2012 "as well as other roles in Gambia, Nigeria, Switzerland, Pakistan, Jamaica and Kenya," according to Fox News.
Reader Comments
Correctly stated then, it's:
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Zeig Heil and all that.
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What an idiot ho bitch.
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In my youth, I was happy and gay - and that word got effectively stolen. These idiot loser leech scumbags have also stolen 'woke'. Fine, they can keep it. We will use 'awaken' instead. (It's got more syllables and that can prove tricky for them. ) R.C.
Free speech, free will, the idea of freedom, critical thinking, creativity, joy, happiness, security, individulaism, family, property, soul, prosperity, etc, etc, etc and even the basic things like the difference between a man and a woman.
Wokeism is a counterfeit awakening, obvious, right.
Sad.
Do you remember the song, Skateaway? I just learned it had a video, as I discussed at infra. Here's the song / video: [Link] . Info.
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Amazon, Google join hundreds of American corporations in signing letter against voter IDs, claiming to support 'voting rights'
Hundreds of corporations including Google and Amazon signed on to a statement, released Wednesday, expressing opposition to "any discriminatory legislation" that would make it harder to vote. The...RC
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I think that album brought them worldwide success.
Regarding the black executives opposing the Georgia voter ID law, the leader of the effort, Kenneth Chenault, is a CFR director. Several of the other execs are also CFR members. See comment on that story.
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through- OK, I just checked, here they are:Dire Straits (1978); Communiqué (1979); Making Movies (1980); Love over Gold (1982); Brothers in Arms (1985); On Every Street (1991); Well, I guess that I've got every one of them. Another one I like. . . Communique, but...I like em all.
SF, Given my job (I did a lot of workers' comp, too) I ALWAYS got a huge chuckle out of Industrial Disease. (Whoa! I see yet another video I was unaware of. [Link] (Not my fault, hell, I didn't own a TV until I was ~34? (true) and I only got it then so as to watch films on the VCR.)* Well he should, I taught him everything he knows. (Not. Duh.)
Thanks friends.
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*Well, I can see that that particular video wasn't well preserved in some salt mine below the Mojave. Maybe I'm wrong, but it seems that I've seen videos from that era which had far better resolution, but I ain't no expert. It certainly doesn't compare with Skateaway. (Then again, though I bet that we've got Video wizard SOTTites, who could look at it and say 'no that's just the resolution from that era' but I kind of doubt it.)
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