April 23, 2024, 02:04 PM
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Zakiya Carr Johnson
quote:The Biden administration's new State Department diversity chief previously called America a "failed historic model" and demanded the destruction of tradition "at every juncture" on the altar of antiracism.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced last week the appointment of Zakiya Carr Johnson as their chief diversity and inclusion officer. Blinken touted Carr Johnson for bringing "expertise and a fresh perspective on how we build a workforce that reflects America."
Carr Johnson previously served as then-President Barack Obama's senior adviser and director of the first Race, Ethnicity and Social Inclusion Unit at the State Department.
Blinken also noted her experience since leaving Obama's State Department. "Her previous work promoting entrepreneurship and access to opportunity for underrepresented populations, as well as her commitment to inclusive leadership, make us stronger, smarter, and more innovative," he said.
Carr Johnson's experience consists of owning two relatively obscure companies – Odara Solutions, a DEI consulting firm, and Black Women Disrupt, an initiative in which Carr Johnson interviewed Black women involved in creative spaces around the world. Its YouTube channel had 125 subscribers.
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quote:Building a workforce that reflects a self-loathing America is not the best way to represent America and promote our image and interests in a burning world looking to us for leadership and inspiration.
How can you praise what you hate?
Sadly, this is not a rhetorical question but one in need of answering by the America-loathing leftists burrowed in the sinecures of our self-esteemed United States Department of State.
Consider the Biden administration’s latest recycling of an Obama-era bureaucrat within the State Department, the new Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer (CDIO) Zakiya Carr Johnson. Per Hannah Grossman’s April 10th Fox News report, Ms. Carr Johnson’s holds less than adoring views of country and her fellow citizens. At an August 2020 “feminist webinar,” she opined:quote:Because we live and work within systems… so deeply rooted in patriarchy and colonialism and racism and otherism, we tend to be very resistant to shifts and changes. It’s very uncomfortable for many colleagues… A culture of misogyny has allowed men to act without consequence and it becomes part of what we believe is normal, right? In order to make any change, we’ve literally got to be about the work of dismantling that traditional structure at every juncture.
In using language many would find offensive and that would spur an H.R. complaint, Ms. Carr Johnson wrote:quote:[There] are chinks in the armor of traditional leadership that refuse to reconcile with a colonizing past, or recognize that time has run out for experimentation and tweaking of a failed historic model… We understand that a cultural shift is on the horizon and in order to save us all, we must be prepared to change.
Sifting through the leftist “Prog whistles,” such as “traditional leadership” (i.e. “straight white males”), one can fairly suppose Ms. Carr Johnson does not consider herself part of the “we” that needs to change. Guess who “must?”quote:Carr Johnson co-authored a Fair Share toolkit guide entitled ‘Feminist Leaders for Feminist Goals.’ According to the guide, redistributing power requires ‘feminist leadership’ to redress ‘a culture of male and/ or white dominance.’
This is standard grist for the (capital “I”) Intersectionalist, Ms. Carr Johnson, who “’learned… to demand intersectionality in all spaces.” Yet the intersectionality sweepstakes has its losers, too, including some less-than-usual suspects, for it seems not all feminists are created equal.
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A whole 125, huh? Too bad that isn't the sum total of America-hating pustules in our country.quote:Its YouTube channel had 125 subscribers.
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Zakiya Carr Johnson
No Wikipedia page...quote:Originally posted by architect:
Ms. Carr Johnson is obviously unqualified to hold any position in the US Govt., but far more tragic that there are those who would put her in this position.A whole 125, huh? Too bad that isn't the sum total of America-hating pustules in our country.quote:Its YouTube channel had 125 subscribers.
quote:Originally posted by mjlennon:No Wikipedia page...quote:Originally posted by architect:
Ms. Carr Johnson is obviously unqualified to hold any position in the US Govt., but far more tragic that there are those who would put her in this position.A whole 125, huh? Too bad that isn't the sum total of America-hating pustules in our country.quote:Its YouTube channel had 125 subscribers.
Worthless people in a worthless position.quote:Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced last week the appointment of Zakiya Carr Johnson as their chief diversity and inclusion officer.