Desirée Cormier Smith made the comments in an October 2020 interview with the Black Diplomats podcast while she was still served as senior policy adviser for liberal mega-donor George Soros’ Open Society Foundations.
White diplomats, Smith said, “were so protective of the United States, and they didn’t want anybody who could sully the image of the United States because it’s this perfect shining city on a hill.”
-Desirée Cormier Smith in interview with Black Diplomats podcast in the fall of 2020
