{"id":239750,"date":"2021-03-17T16:30:37","date_gmt":"2021-03-17T20:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=239750"},"modified":"2021-03-17T16:30:38","modified_gmt":"2021-03-17T20:30:38","slug":"state-department-racing-to-address-232-old-problem-of-entrenched-whiteness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/state-department-racing-to-address-232-old-problem-of-entrenched-whiteness\/","title":{"rendered":"State Department \u2018Racing\u2019 To Address 232-Old-Problem Of \u2018Entrenched Whiteness\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fstate-department-racing-to-address-232-old-problem-of-entrenched-whiteness%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=239750&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/GettyImages-1230972712.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The Department of Defense is not the only Cabinet-level agency undergoing a \u201cwoke\u201d makeover. According to Politico, the State Department is also wrestling with its identity and \u201cracing\u201d to address a 232-year history \u201cof \u201centrenched whiteness.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAntony Blinken\u2019s State Department is racing to address a 232-year-old problem: the overwhelming and entrenched whiteness of the nation\u2019s oldest government agency,\u201d the outlet reports Wednesday. \u201cThe department\u2019s 23,000 or so American staff may be the global face of America, but they don\u2019t look like it. And the gap is growing, not shrinking, by many metrics.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThough 40 percent of the American population is from a racial or ethnic minority, \u2018only 13 percent of the Department\u2019s Senior Executive Service are people of color,\u2019 said Ambassador Gina Abercrombie-Winstanley, a career diplomat. \u2018It was more diverse in 1986 \u2014 literally \u2014 than it is now,\u2019 said Eric Rubin, president of the American Foreign Service Association, which represents the department\u2019s diplomats,\u201d the outlet noted.<\/p>\n<p>According to Politico, President Joe Biden has pledged to run the most diverse government ever, and that involves \u201crethinking\u201d and \u201creformatting\u201d some of the most significant governmental institutions.<\/p>\n<p>The State Department, under Blinken, wasted no time in addressing the agency\u2019s issues with diversity. Blinken <a href=\"https:\/\/www.state.gov\/investing-in-diversity-and-inclusion-at-state\/\">submitted a report on the State Department\u2019s \u201cdiversity and inclusion<\/a>\u201d problems on February 24th, almost immediately after he was confirmed to his role as Secretary of State.<\/p>\n<p>Although the report was focused on the agency\u2019s issues, it also proposed solutions, including hiring a Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer (CDIO) to \u201calign and advance D&amp;I policies across the department, bring transparency to these initiatives, and hold senior leadership accountable on progress.\u201d The CDIO is tasked with incorporating \u201cdiversity and inclusion into the Department\u2019s work at every level.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The State Department is also committed to educating its workforce on \u201canti-racism.\u201d Before the announcement of the CDIO, the State Department scheduled an instructional Zoom, stressing the idea that racism is a threat to national security.<\/p>\n<p>The event, titled, \u201cRacism Being a Threat to National Security and Democracy,\u201d featured a range of progressive speakers, including &nbsp;\u201cformer Democratic Rep. Tom Perriello, who currently serves as an executive director for George Soros\u2019 Open Society Foundation,\u201d according to Fox News, and \u201cCenter for Constitutional Rights attorney Diala Shamas and Western States Center (WSC) Executive Director Eric Ward.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSecretary Blinken has made it 100 percent clear that he is committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion for our workforce. It\u2019s going to be integrated across the department, and it\u2019s going to help strengthen us, period,\u201d a State Department spokesperson told Politico.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, the Biden administration\u2019s Department of Defense has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/shapiro-wokeifying-americas-military\">come under fire for their own campaign to \u201cwokeify<\/a>\u201d the United States military by incorporating similar training and education. As the Daily Wire reported earlier this week, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/navy-eradicating-extremism-training-black-lives-matter-is-not-politically-partisan-in-nature\">United States Navy debuted its own curriculum<\/a> about \u201ceradicating extremism,\u201d without Black Lives Matter listed as a political extremist group, and a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/u-s-navy-inclusion-and-diversity-report-includes-pledge-to-advocate-for-and-acknowledge-all-intersectional-identities\">Department of Defense \u201cdiversity and inclusion\u201d report<\/a>, similar to the one submitted by the State Department, pledged to address the issue of \u201cintersectional identities\u201d as a way of better addressing modern notions of gender.<\/p>\n<p><i>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a&nbsp;<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i>member<\/i><\/a><i>.&nbsp;<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Defense is not the only Cabinet-level agency undergoing a \u201cwoke\u201d makeover. 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