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State Department ‘Racing’ To Address 232 Year-Old-Problem Of ‘Entrenched Whiteness’

Emily Zanotti
State Department ‘Racing’ To Address 232 Year-Old-Problem Of ‘Entrenched Whiteness’
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The Department of Defense is not the only Cabinet-level agency undergoing a “woke” makeover. According to Politico, the State Department is also wrestling with its identity and “racing” to address a 232-year history “of “entrenched whiteness.”

“Antony Blinken’s State Department is racing to address a 232-year-old problem: the overwhelming and entrenched whiteness of the nation’s oldest government agency,” the outlet reports Wednesday. “The department’s 23,000 or so American staff may be the global face of America, but they don’t look like it. And the gap is growing, not shrinking, by many metrics.”

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