Psaki: Biden won’t remove UN ambassador over ‘white supremacy’ comments
By Steven Nelson
April 16, 2021 | 2:27pm | Updated
White House press secretary Jen Psaki on Friday said President Biden has no plans to remove UN Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield over comments she made that “slavery weaved white supremacy into our founding documents and principles.â€
The senior US diplomat described racism and discrimination in the US in taped remarks this week to Al Sharpton’s National Action Network.
Emerald Robinson of Newsmax asked Psaki at her daily press briefing whether Biden is “going to remove her from her position†— saying the speech hit themes similar to an anti-US diatribe by Chinese diplomats in Alaska last month.
But Psaki defended Thomas-Greenfield, who also denounced China’s treatment of Uyghurs and Burma’s treatment of Rohingya Muslims in her remarks to Sharpton’s group.
“Is the president going to remove an African American woman with decades of experience in the Foreign Service who is widely respected around the world from her position as ambassador to the UN? He is not,†Psaki said.
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