My stepfather was saved from the Holocaust by an African-American GI: Joe Biden's secretary of state pick Tony Blinken says extraordinary story of survival is 'what America represents to the world' ..."Tony Blinken, Joe Biden's nomination to be secretary of state, praised his prominent diplomatic family and paid tribute to his stepfather's surviving the Holocaust in his speech thanking the president-elect for the nomination.
"Biden introduced his national security team in Wilmington on Tuesday as he prepares to transition to the White House in January.
"He noted Blinken, one of his longtime advisers, comes from a family of 'immigrants and refugees' that include 'a Holocaust survivor who taught him to never take for granted the very idea of America as a place of possibilities.'
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. . . "At the end of the war, he made a break from a death march into the Bavarian woods. From his hiding place, he heard the rumbling sound of a tank. Instead of an Iron Cross, he saw a 5- pointed White Star.'
" 'He ran to the tank. The hatch opened. An African American GI looked down at him. He fell to his knees and said the only three words he knew in English that his mother had taught him: God Bless America. The GI lifted him into the tank, into America, into freedom.'
?Blinken's half-sister Leah Pisar has said that soldier's name was Sgt. Bill Ellington, who served in the 761st Tank Battalion, which was made up of mostly black soldiers and known as the Black Panthers. Jackie Robinson belonged to that battalion "...
" 'I hope that Mr. Blinken and President-Elect Biden's Administration will change course from Trump's State Department & not target or suppress support of Palestinian human rights.'
"Tlaib is one of the few members of Congress to openly support the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) group which calls for action against Israel. "...
Miss Congeniality Rashida Tlaib, pictured, right
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