You to read it to believe it.

broadcasting the news in Iraq, whose [b]lack citizens have little media presence and even less power.

one who is not just presenting the news but also making Iraqi history.

Ms. Abd Al-Aziz, 25, is the first [b]lack Iraqi employed on air at the state television’s news and information channels at least since the United States toppled Saddam Hussein almost two decades ago. (TV executives said they believed there had been no [b]lack state TV anchors during Hussein’s decades-long rule, either.)

“We have in Iraq at least 1.5 million African-Iraqis,” said Nabil Jasim, 51, the president of the Iraqi Media Network. “They need to see themselves reflected on TV.”

Her hiring both shocked and bothered a few network employees and viewers, Mr. Jasim said, a negative response that highlights the deeply entrenched racism in Iraq, a country with about 40 million people.

In the country’s tribal-dominated political system, [b]lack Iraqis have essentially no political representation. Iraq’s Parliament does not have a single [b]lack lawmaker. There are almost no senior [b]lack officials in government ministries. As in other Arab countries, many Iraqis casually use racial slurs.

Most members of Iraq’s [b]lack community are descendants of enslaved East Africans brought to the southern coast of Iraq beginning in the ninth century, a slave trade that lasted more than 1,000 years and that ended in some Arab countries just decades ago.

This has been ignored forever, but suddenly, they rediscovered it. The goal of subverting and wrecking Western countries citing 'slavery' being successful, the wokies are now moving on to trying to destroy other countries (further). Like Iraq does not have enough division without the Walter Duranty-New York Times exporting American racial grievance politics.

Ms. Abd Al-Aziz’s background is atypical for a Black Iraqi: She grew up in a middle-class family in Baghdad, where her late father was a businessman and her mother now owns a stationery shop. Ms. Abd Al-Aziz earned a degree in agricultural economics and was working in an import distribution business when the network approached her.

So... just like in Murica, your affirmative action in Iraq is benefiting not the blacks who need it, but those already at the top of the hierarchy.

While the Black Lives Matter movement has spread across much of the world, Iraq has only a nascent [b]lack rights movement.

Truly a tragedy. I guess the WDNYT thinks the country has not been burned down enough, so it needs BLM for that.

Asked what she considers the best term, Ms. Abd Al-Aziz said, simply: “Iraqi.”

“Iraq is diversity. We have more than one origin. Your nationality is enough,” she said.

You can just sense the teeth of this sociopathic liar-journalist-propagandist gnashing while she writes this.

Ms. Abd Al-Aziz was the only [b]lack student in her class at high school, but she said she did not feel a lack of opportunities growing up. ...

If Ms. Abd Al-Aziz has not felt blocked by racism, it has held back hundreds of thousands of other Iraqis.

REEEEEEEE, c'mon feel discriminated against, I need it for a propaganda story.

She said some of her Arab friends use skin-whitening creams and have suggested she do so as well.

“I always say love yourself. This is me and this is my color, and if you have any questions about it, ask God,” she said.

So in a story about "IRAQ IS WACIST", the only one comfortable with her color is the black woman. Ironic.

“Other Iraqis deal with us as if we are still slaves,” said Abdul Hussein Abdul Razzak, a [b]lack journalist and the co-founder of the Free Iraqis Movement, an association founded in 2017 to defend the rights of [b]lack Iraqis.

Despite years of writing for government newspapers as a freelancer, Mr. Abdul Razzak, 64, said he had never been employed by any of them.

“I am a good journalist but no one ever gave me a chance to work,” he said.

I cannot imagine why. You seem a delight to be around.

Good journalist and good devil are alike, and both preposterous.

“I am trying to demonstrate that my example can be a hope for everyone,” she said. “That the color of our skin will not stop us.”

"BE A VICTIM DAMNIT! Who do you think you are?"