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Trump’s State Department Had a “Humiliating” Lack of Diversity. Can Joe Biden Fix It?

Mother Jones illustration; Wikimedia Commons On Friday October 23, the State Department quietly decided to halt all “training programs related to diversity and inclusion.” For department employees, it was a fitting bookend to a presidential administration that has been hostile to the idea of diversity and uninterested in challenging the stereotype of US diplomats as “pale, male, and Yale.” As Donald Trump nears the end of his term, he leaves behind an ambassadorial corps that is whiter than it’s been in more than 40 years.

 

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