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Thomas-Greenfield is entitled to express her opinions as a private citizen. But as the representative of the United States to the United Nations, it is not Ambassador Greenfield’s job to denigrate her country

Biden’s Choice for UN Ambassador Uses Critical Race Theory to Lambaste the U.S.



Biden’s Choice for UN Ambassador Uses Critical Race Theory to Lambaste the U.S.The Biden administration’s ambassador to the United Nations, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, delivered an address on April 14th to the 30th Annual Summit of Reverend Al Sharpton’s National Action Network. The U.S. ambassador disgracefully pandered to her audience with tidbits of critical race theory, condemning the country she is supposed to represent as white supremacist. Ambassador Thomas-Greenfield began her remarks with high praise for Sharpton. “Your lifetime of activism is an inspiration to us all,” she said. “So long as the world wants for justice, I feel better knowing you and the National Action Network will demand it.”

Ambassador Thomas-Greenfield proceeded to excoriate America for past racial transgressions, beginning with slavery

Ambassador Thomas-Greenfield shamelessly used such words to describe a man who, among other things, helped incite anti-Jewish riots in Crown Heights, New York in 1991 and marched next to a protester with a sign that read, “The White Man is the Devil.” On another occasion, Sharpton referred to a Jewish store owner in Harlem seeking to expand his business as “some white interloper,” after which protests led by his National Action Network erupted in violence. Sharpton helped propagate a fabricated rape and kidnapping charge by a young black woman, Tawana Brawley, against some white men and defamed an assistant district attorney with accusations that he was one of the participants in the alleged crime. Sharpton also reportedly referred to moderate African American politicians who disagreed with him as "cocktail sip Negroes" or “yellow ni**ers.” After lauding the bigot hosting her address, Ambassador Thomas-Greenfield proceeded to excoriate America for past racial transgressions, beginning with slavery. “I have seen for myself how the original sin of slavery weaved white supremacy into our founding documents and principles,” Thomas-Greenfield said. Racism, she asserted, “takes many forms” in America. Yet she is hopeful "in part because of the influence and the insistence of organizations like yours," Thomas-Greenfield told her National Action Network audience. For good measure, she marveled how “the Black Lives Matter movement spread this past summer.” What they spread was violence and looting across the country. Ambassador Thomas-Greenfield should have emphasized that the United States, with whatever faults it still may have, remains a beacon of freedom and exemplar of human rights to the world. Instead, as the Wall Street Journal editorial board correctly observed, Ambassador Thomas-Greenfield sounded more like the “Ambassador of Blame America First.” In declaring that “the original sin of slavery weaved white supremacy into our founding documents and principles," Ambassador Thomas-Greenfield was parroting critical race theory, which is based on a gross distortion of history that makes slavery and white supremacy the foundation of America from its inception to the present day.

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Ambassador Thomas-Greenfield chose to dwell on America’s imperfections

The Declaration of Independence set forth the revolutionary principle of equality and the inalienable rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness that has remained America’s guiding star. The Constitution set forth a blueprint for an ordered system of self-government based on the rule of law, separation of powers, and checks and balances. Without the compromise the Founding Fathers managed to reach on slavery, there would have been no United States in the first place and the South could have formed its own independent country with slavery remaining intact far longer than it did. The Founding Fathers were able to incorporate in the Constitution a deadline for ending slave trade into the United States. They also included an amendment process that would prove crucial over time in abolishing slavery and enacting other critical protections for African Americans and other minority groups. Ambassador Thomas-Greenfield gives the impression that slavery was an American or, at the very least, a Western invention. It wasn’t of course. In fact, slavery had already existed legally within Africa itself for many years prior to its introduction to the Virginia colonies. Many of the Africans who were transported to the Americas were originally enslaved by Africans in Africa. The United States is not perfect to be sure, but neither is any human society or government. At least, the United States is moving doggedly towards achievement of the Declaration of Independence’s aspirational ideals. Nevertheless, Ambassador Thomas-Greenfield chose to dwell on America’s imperfections, which pale by comparison with much of the rest of the world. America fought a civil war more than 150 years ago to end slavery in 1865 with the ratification of the 13th amendment to the Constitution. Jim Crow laws, which were enacted following Reconstruction and into the twentieth century, were eliminated during the 1960’s by court orders and by federal civil rights legislation guaranteeing the right to vote and non-discrimination in housing, public accommodations and employment.

Why isn’t Ambassador Thomas-Greenfield speaking out against slavery still existing to this day in Africa

In contrast, 94 countries today “appear not to have criminal legislation prohibiting slavery,” according to developers of an anti-slavery database. In other countries, the laws prohibiting slavery are not worth the paper they are written on. Slavery persists in parts of Africa, for example. As a 2019 Reuters article put it, “West African slavery lives on, 400 years after transatlantic trade began.” Mauritania and Nigeria are two case studies of modern-day slavery in West Africa. Eritrea in East Africa and Burundi in East-Central Africa are near the top of the list of countries in the world with state-imposed forced labor, exceeded only by North Korea. Why isn’t Ambassador Thomas-Greenfield speaking out against slavery still existing to this day in Africa, a continent in which she has specialized during her long diplomatic career? The answer is simple. To do so would have violated the core of critical race theory, which is premised on the evils of white supremacy that supposedly are solely responsible for slavery and racial oppression. Thomas-Greenfield is entitled to express her opinions as a private citizen. But as the representative of the United States to the United Nations, it is not Ambassador Greenfield’s job to denigrate her country. Instead, when talking about the United States, she should spend her time extolling it as a fundamentally decent country always striving to improve itself while serving as an example of freedom to so many other countries in the world that lag far behind.


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Joseph A. Klein, CFP United Nations Columnist -- Bio and Archives

Joseph A. Klein is the author of Global Deception: The UN’s Stealth Assault on America’s Freedom.


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