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Fellow white people, just because you don’t understand or haven’t seen it or experienced it personally, doesn’t mean it isn’t real. After 2016, everyone raced to read “Hillbilly Elegy” to understand disgruntled white people who voted for Trump. Are you doing the same now?
Are you reading Toni Morrison, James Baldwin, Ralph Ellison, Zoe’s Neale Hurston? Are you reading the autobiographies or Frederick Douglass and Malcolm X and working your way through this list? chipublib.bibliocommons.com/list/share/204…
Are you going to seek out black history museums when the lockdown is lifted? Are you following @MsPackyetti @jbouie @AdamSerwer @JamilSmith @nhannahjones @JoyAnnReid @Travon and many other amazing black voices on this platform?
This is not an admonition but a call to action. If you don’t understand something, that’s on you. Fix that. Educate yourself.
*Zora Neal Hurston.
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Today marks 30 years to the day that my family and I arrived in the United States from the USSR. This photo was taken in Moscow, shortly before our departure. Those four people have no idea that they were about to trade the Soviet toilet paper shortage for an American one.
Seriously, though. We always celebrated this day, at first in person, at modestly priced restaurants that were a luxury at the time, then in congratulatory phone calls as time&geography separated us. I thought today we’d celebrate this big one in person, but it’ll have to wait.
Thank you, America, for all you have given us and all you have allowed us to achieve. These last couple of years of terrifying immigrant-bashing notwithstanding, we are so happy to be here. 🇺🇸
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Marie Yovanovich gets a looooong standing ovation at the Georgetown School of Foreign Service
Yovanovich, addressing the students at the Georgetown School of Foreign Service: “To those of you who haven’t *yet* decided to go to work for the American people, I hope tonight I can convince you.”

Even after all of that, she’s encouraging young people to become diplomats.
Yovanovich: “That creaking sound we can all hear? That’s the sound of the institutions of the international order straining under the tremendous pressure they’ve been put under. They need a reboot, not THE boot.”
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At the award ceremony for Marie Yovanovich, the dean of the Georgetown School of Foreign Service says, “We are the original globalists. We embrace the term proudly.”
Of Yovanovich he says, “This is what intellectual courage looks like. This is what a moral compass looks like.”
He and another speaker refer to “refugees from the foreign service.” Constant bird-flipping to the White House at this event—in the most diplomatic language possible, naturally.
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