An embassy is a nation’s face to the world. An American embassy is American territory, the flag expresses sovereignty, and attacking an embassy is an act of war.

So what are we to make of American embassies that fly Black Lives Matter flags? The BLM flag now represents the United States. It’s bizarre enough for an embassy to endorse any political movement, let alone one that claims that police departments cannot be reformed because they came out of “slave patrols” and “white supremacy.” Does the Biden Administration believe this? If not, why is it putting the BLM flag almost on the level of Old Glory? If anything, BLM is above it. Burning an American flag is hardly worth nothing but burning a BLM flag could be a hate crime.

Athens, Greece. (Credit Image: © Aristidis VafeiadakisZUMA Wire)

Normally, an embassy presents a nation’s history, victories, and accomplishments. The American State Department tells the world we are a racist country and Secretary of State Antony Blinken says we do this so we can “live up to the values that we stand for worldwide.”

On the anniversary of George Floyd's murder, we remember that to be a credible force for human rights around the world, we must face the reality of racism at home. By addressing our shortcomings openly and honestly, we live up to the values that we stand for worldwide. pic.twitter.com/SIw6EAy62x

— Secretary Antony Blinken (@SecBlinken) May 25, 2021

What are these values? To take some recent examples from the State Department, they include promoting more Third World immigration, celebrating “Asian American & Pacific Islander Month,” and advocating “diversity and inclusion.” Non-whites are complaining to CNN that the State Department itself is racist, so the Secretary has a long way to go. CNN frets over the “microaggressions, quiet bigotries and structural hurdles that diplomats say ripple under the State Department’s cosmopolitan veneer.”

In the meantime, the language of the college campus has come to the State Department.

.@POTUS has proposed a multi-year, $4 billion regional strategy to address the root causes of migration, along with a comprehensive strategy for collaborative migration management to promote safe, orderly, and humane migration throughout North and Central America. pic.twitter.com/laf62FQNh3

— Department of State (@StateDept) May 30, 2021

.@SecBlinken: Diversity and inclusion makes us stronger, smarter, more creative and more innovative. pic.twitter.com/ftXoR9esaG

— Department of State (@StateDept) May 29, 2021

2/ Read the stories of three of our #AAPI foreign service officers in our latest DipNote below and one of them had his internship here at U.S. Embassy in #KualaLumpur!