Tillerson denounces racism in wake of Trump's Charlottesville comments
Source: Reuters
Yeganeh Torbati and Makini Brice
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - With U.S. President Donald Trump increasingly isolated over his response to white nationalist violence in Virginia, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson issued a broad condemnation of racism on Friday and promised to make his department more racially diverse.
Trump is facing a widening backlash among fellow Republicans, business leaders and even sports stars since the violence last Saturday in the Virginia city of Charlottesville arising from a rally by white nationalists. The crisis could further imperil his policy agenda, which includes tax cuts.
Tillerson invoked the 1865 second inaugural address by Abraham Lincoln, the president who freed the slaves and presided over the Civil War against rebellious pro-slavery Confederate Southern states. As the war drew to a close, Lincoln asked the nation to bind up its wounds from the conflict, Tillerson noted.
"We, too, today should seek to bind up the wounds," Tillerson told participants in a State Department fellowship program. "We must pursue reconciliation, understanding and respect regardless of skin color, ethnicity or religious or political views."
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you and your bunch have used economic racism from day one how do you account for that?
You really need to go and read this book:
Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power by Steve Coll
If you have read this book it really shows how you and your empire used economic racism to make billions , so FU
