Iran Press/ America: Mary Elizabeth Taylor, Assistant Secretary of State for Legislative Affairs, wrote in a memo to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo: “The President’s comments and actions surrounding racial injustice and Black Americans cut sharply against my core values and convictions.”
Taylor, who is the first Black woman to hold the position, has served in the State Department since 2018 and was the youngest person in history to hold her post, The Washington Post reported Thursday.
Taylor's resignation comes as Trump continues to lean into his forceful approach to the ongoing demonstrations sparked by the death of George Floyd at the hands of the police. The gruesome video of Floyd's killing while in Minneapolis police custody has prompted the kind of soul searching about the role of police in society and systemic racism that many advocates have urged for decades.
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