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Foreign Policy: The Legacy of American Racism at Home and Abroad
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Foreign Policy: The Legacy of American Racism at Home and Abroad

Domestic racism has long impacted U.S. foreign policy. It’s time to open up about it. It used to be that Americans had to wait decades to learn how U.S. national security professionals viewed racism within the United States. Only declassified reports and personal memoirs revealed how senior officials and diplomats condemned segregation, inequality, and racial injustice in their own country. Many of them saw the evils of racism as an affront to U.S. values and an impediment to the country’s foreign-policy goals, especially in sub-Saharan Africa. They delivered their points directly or indirectly—in situation rooms, policy debates, and briefings. These…
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Reuters: Systemic racism slows economic growth: Dallas Fed chief Kaplan
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Reuters: Systemic racism slows economic growth: Dallas Fed chief Kaplan

PEJOURNAL - Systemic racism and high unemployment levels among black and Hispanic Americans create a drag on the U.S. economy, Dallas Federal Reserve President Robert Kaplan said on Sunday. “A more inclusive economy where everyone has an opportunity will mean faster workforce growth, faster productivity growth and will grow faster,” Kaplan said on CBS’ “Face the Nation.” Kaplan said he agreed with his counterpart at the Atlanta Federal Reserve Bank, Raphael Bostic - the Fed’s only African-American policymaker - who on Friday called for an end to racism and laid out ways the U.S. central bank can help. The comments…
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CNN: Cathartic acts of rage, or the rewriting of history? How statues became political lightning rods
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Jun
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CNN: Cathartic acts of rage, or the rewriting of history? How statues became political lightning rods

PEJOURNAL - Statues are products of one era built to endure into others. They loom over streets and squares while the views of those who pass by change, from generation to generation. Most people, most of the time, are indifferent to these persons of stone and bronze. Not now.From Richmond, Virginia, to Bristol in England, statues of men who championed or traded in slavery centuries ago are being torn down. The soul-searching about race prompted by the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis has extended into how the history of racial persecution and prejudice is remembered. It is a heated…
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The Independent: Churchill was a politically complex man – but he was certainly a racist
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The Independent: Churchill was a politically complex man – but he was certainly a racist

"Many historians have tried to make sense of our former prime minister and his times. He was a racist, but also anti-fascist; he was anti-communist, yet carved up Europe and gifted much of it to Stalin" BY: Sean O'Grady PEJOURNAL - “Churchill was a racist” was the graffiti on the fine statue of the old man on Parliament square. In the big scheme of things, it’s a minor piece of vandalism – but an unfortunate one as, quite unlike the defenestration of slave trader Edward Colston in Bristol, the wartime prime minister is an obviously revered national hero. The desecration…
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