Trump’s Secretary of State Rex Tillerson pushes affirmative action after Charlottesville
The State Department will pursue a policy of affirmative action for ambassadorships, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson announced Friday.
Speaking at a press conference, Tillerson declared that the State Department would take active steps to “increase diversity at the highest ranks”.
Among other policy changes, Tillerson said that the State Department would now employ a quota system when drawing up pools of candidates for open ambassadorships.
“The State Department must redouble our efforts to increase diversity at the highest ranks of the department, including at the ambassador-level. I have directed the relevant committees to adopt a new procedure. Every time we have an opening for an ambassador position, at least one of the candidates must be a minority candidate.”
At present, Tillerson said, the Department has a “great diversity gap”.
“We have to own this process. That doesn’t mean coming through town and dropping some pamphlets off at the recruiting office.”
The policy shift comes in response to the violence in Charlottesville, Virginia on August 12th, when white supremacists clashed with counter-demonstrators. The incident culminated in the killing of a 32-year-old woman at the hands of a white supremacist who rammed his car through a procession of counter-demonstrators.
Tillerson cited the white supremacist rally as an example of the bigotry he said the new steps at the State Department were meant to combat.
“We all know hate is not an American value.”
“We do honor, protect, and defend freedom of speech – First Amendment rights. It’s what sets us apart from every other government and regime in the world. But we do not honor, nor do we promote or accept hate speech in any form.”
“We, too, today should seek to bind up the wounds. We must pursue reconciliation, understanding and respect regardless of skin color, ethnicity or religious or political views.”
According to Trump those who use Freedom of Speech to expose evil and those who practice are foolish people ..
Trump said of those who used Freedom of Speech to expose islam and its prophet for what and who they are in a cartoon were foolish people Quoting Daffy ( Communist ) Drumpf ” Those who say Freedom of Speech these are foolish people”
TRump also boasted prior to given power ” I won’t rule out spying on Israel”
and also boasted prior to giving power ” If Israel wants peace they need to be willing to make some sacrifices ” Trump did not say that the muslim barbaric Pallies need to make sacrifices but Israel ..its Israel that Communist Trump will demand /command to make sacrifices and thus far on those boasts /promises Trump has kept though Trump did not have Israel spied on as I know of however trump disclosed private information given him trump ran break neck speed to tell his Communist bed-fellow Russian buddy KGBer Sputin all was told him by Israel.My advice is from now on only tell Trump what Israel wants Russia to know.. I did this myself when I had in private shared with someone I thought was a friend and they didn’t waste any time blowing it to a certain person and from then on when I wanted that certain person to know something I told it to the RUN-AND-BEAR-IT .