Burdens

Plenty of people (including me!) how black diplomats are being used to be the face of the US's unconscionable actions at the UN, but if you don't want to be Colin Powell with the white vial, just resign.

The issue here, really, is that Powell didn't suffer from doing that, except perhaps in his conscience. The easy path is still easy, if it's easy for you to take.

One State Department official described particular concerns at their agency about the way the situation is affecting the legacy of Thomas-Greenfield, one of the most prominent Black diplomats in the U.S. foreign service’s history. “Black officers at the State Department are saying this reminds them of Colin Powell and how they threw him under the bus” to justify the U.S. invasion of Iraq at the U.N., the official said, referring to America’s first Black secretary of state.

Sure it's unfair, but one person's legacy is not the important thing here!!!