Biden’s UN ambassador slammed for declaring white supremacy ‘weaved’ into US ‘founding documents and principles’
Linda Thomas-Greenfield, Joe Biden’s ambassador to the United Nations, is facing criticism after saying “the original sin of slavery weaved white supremacy” into America’s “founding documents and principles.”
Speaking to the National News Network, a civil rights organization founded by Al Sharpton, Thomas-Greenfield spoke about the Biden administration’s intention to reenter the United Nations’ Human Rights Council, which former President Donald Trump left in 2018.
To join the Human Rights Council, according to Thomas-Greenfield, the US must “acknowledge that we are an imperfect union and have been since the beginning.”
That imperfection, she continued, lies in the “original sin of slavery,” which “weaved white supremacy into our founding documents and principles.” She then cited white supremacy as being behind the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and “so many other black Americans.”
Biden’s UN ambassador, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, tells the National Action Network that if America's going to join the UN’s Human Rights Council, we must acknowledge our own failures: “White supremacy is weaved into our founding documents and principles” pic.twitter.com/bYc5SyWkE1
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) April 14, 2021
Thomas-Greenfield’s comments have quickly made their way across social media, igniting criticism from mainly conservative users.
“She's apologizing for America even though the UN Human Rights Council currently includes Pakistan, Somalia, Qatar, Cuba, Venezuela, Sudan, and Libya,” Daily Caller’s Greg Price tweeted in reaction.
“In the Cold War, we relied on Soviet diplomats to condemn America at the UN; in the Biden administration, we just do it ourselves,” Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas) added.
Quite the opposite, actually. We just haven’t always lived up to our founding documents and principles. https://t.co/QmfeJlztEK
— Ilya Shapiro (@ishapiro) April 14, 2021
This is some repugnant BS. https://t.co/T3REp0MKUZ
— The🐰FOO (@PolitiBunny) April 14, 2021
We have cultivated some seriously unhealthy attitudes about this country. In the end, it will be our undoing. Half this country hates the place. And that number is rising. No nation can survive like this. No nation ever has. https://t.co/TyPmGdNGEE
— Jesse Kelly (@JesseKellyDC) April 14, 2021
In her talk to National News Network, Thomas-Greenfield retold stories about her own experiences with racism, many of which she recounted last month at a UN session focused on “elimination of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance.”
“I grew up in the segregated South. I was bussed to a segregated school and on weekends, the Ku Klux Klan burned crosses on lawns in our neighborhood. When I was in high school, I was asked by a little girl, for whom I babysat, if I was an N-word because her dad had used the word for me,” she said at the time.
Let us expose the racism and racial discrimination endemic to every society around the globe. Let us press forward to root out that discrimination and remove the rot from our foundations. And let us leave our children a less hateful, more hopeful world. pic.twitter.com/mei64aBMNK
— Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield (@USAmbUN) March 19, 2021
The ambassador went on to refer to racism as a “cancer.”
“Racism is endemic. It’s built in, like a rot in a frame, and it remains, and it festers, and it spreads because many of those in charge allow it to,” she said. “Others look away and pretend it’s not there. But like a cancer, if ignored, it grows.”
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