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Home Front: Politix

Pompeo calls Thomas-Greenfield's 'slavery' comments 'reprehensible'

2021-04-19

[NYPOST] Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo slammed comments from UN Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield

...who when she was being interviewed for the job by the Senate, promised to stand by Israel. Apparently she meant standing with Jew haters...

that "slavery weaved white supremacy

...the pernicious doctrine that laws were intended to be obeyed, that society works better when people don't pour shreiking from their places of worship every Friday for a weekend of rioting over insults real or imagined; and that cannibalism, beastiality, incest, murder, theft, rape, and similar activities are bad. A Dead White European (which invalidates his opinion) philosopher once opined that societies thrive when a person's word can be relied upon, and that a society which puts individual happiness first will invariably fail. Strangely enough, other successful societies, such as China, Japan, Korea, and those kinds of places could also be lumped with white supremacist societies, since they push the same values...
into our founding documents" — saying the remarks are "reprehensible" and should disqualify her from representing American interests around the world.

"America is a noble place," Pompeo told "The Cats Roundtable" on WABC 770 AM in an interview that aired Sunday. "I heard our ambassador to the United Nations
...a formerly good idea gone bad...
this week talk about our founding as fundamentally corrupt and flawed and not noble and good. I couldn’t disagree more."

Thomas-Greenfield spoke about the "imperfect union" of America during a virtual speech last Wednesday at the civil rights hustler Al Sharpton
...Tawana Brawley's spiritual advisor...
’s National Action Network conference.

"I have seen for myself how the original sin of slavery weaved white supremacy into our founding documents and principles. But I also shared these stories to offer up an insight, a simple truth I’ve learned over the years: Racism is not the problem of the person who experiences it," she said in comments directed to the UN Human Rights Council.

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