“Sometimes our best intentions go awry because we haven’t listened enough or don’t truly understand others’ lived experience,” Chargé d’Affaires Karen Decker tweeted on Thursday.
The Biden administration’s top diplomat to Afghanistan apologized Thursday for a cringeworthy Twitter post in which she suggested that women in the war-torn nation needed some “Black Girl Magic” to overcome the Taliban’s oppression.
Decker was ridiculed on Wednesday for her attempt to celebrate Black History Month by tweeting from her official account: “Are Afghans familiar with #BlackGirlMagic and the movement it inspired? Do Afghan girls need a similar movement? What about Afghan Women? Teach me, ready to learn.” US Embassy Afghanistan
The since-deleted tweet went on to tag prominent African American recording artists Beyonce and Lizzo and actress Regina King. “Bigger picture—— Replace your deleted tweets to the Afghan girls with US opposition to Taliban not letting them go to school and work,”An Afghan girl reads the Koran in a madrasa or religious school in Kabul, Afghanistan, Oct. 8, 2022.
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