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Home Front: Politix
Civic groups slam US for 'abysmal' record on race
2007-12-11
The United States is rife with racial discrimination and the authorities have an “abysmal” record on promoting equality, according to a report by a coalition of 250 civic groups published on Monday. The US Human Rights Network, which groups non-profit organizations, released its report to counter the findings of a US government report in April to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD).
In that case I suggest we drop the subject of racial discrimination and never mention it again. We've been obsessing on the subject since I was a pre-teen and if we haven't made any progress then we never will. To hell with it.
The network said US minorities including African Americans, Native Americans, Hispanics and Muslims face discrimination in a range of areas including voting, policing and education. Immigrants are often unfairly treated, as are women and children from ethnic minorities, it said. A disproportionate number of minorities are arrested, charged, prosecuted and convicted compared with whites, and minorities are over-represented in US prisons, said the report titled “Turning a blind eye to injustice”.
I don't suppose it has anything at all to do with empirical cultural differences? It can't possibly be that 53 percent of the violent crime in the US is committed by 12 percent of the population?
Schools in areas with high concentrations of minorities often lack adequate resources and, as a result, students score poorly in federally mandated examinations, it said. Minorities are “unfairly victimized” by racial profiling, a practice in which police can stop and frisk people based on their appearance. Muslims have been targeted particularly since the Sept. 11 attacks by Al Qaeda militants in 2001, it said.
Where are the statistics on that? We're never seen them.
“The ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union) calls upon the US to improve its abysmal performance in these areas and to take immediate, robust action to bring the US into compliance with its obligations under this vital Convention,” the report said.
Posted by:Fred

#16  "A disproportionate number of minorities are arrested, charged, prosecuted and convicted compared with whites, and minorities are over-represented in US prisons"

Because they disproportiantely commit crimes! Sad thing is its usually same-race victims.
Posted by: Uloluns Bonaparte9049   2007-12-11 13:57  

#15  So what the UN apparatchiks are saying, that in a comparison between the 'Rest of the World'[tm] and the US, the US comes in second to last.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2007-12-11 12:39  

#14  Roger Simon, in the middle of a review of the Paul Haggis film Valley of Elah:

In 2006 it only got better when Haggis won the Academy Award for original screenplay and Best Picture for Crash, a movie he directed. And since it was not an adaptation, it was pure Haggis.

When I saw that film, I was certainly impressed with its author’s chops – the guy could write dialogue and entertain us with arresting scenes. But something disturbed me. Crash was a portrait of Los Angeles as a city of races perpetually at war with each other. I had lived in Los Angeles for over thirty years and did not experience it that way. Not always, anyway. And yes, I lived in Echo Park where the Mexican gangs battled the Vietnamese and was here for the riots and burnings in South Central we all know about. In fact, I had taught screenwriting in Watts and helped organize the fundraiser by the very Writers Guild to replace the torched South Central library in the early nineties.

Still, Haggis - who arrived in LA from Canada in 1975, only a half dozen years after me – and I live in a very different Los Angeles. He sees that horrifying racism where I see the new melting pot with more Iranians than anywhere but Tehran and more Koreans than anywhere but Seoul (not to mention gazillions of Mexicans, Chinese, etc), all getting along as well, or better, than anywhere else in the world I know of, particularly now. Call it the half-full/half-empty syndrome - or maybe I’m just nuts for the ethnic food (I admit it). . . .
Posted by: Mike   2007-12-11 12:36  

#13  Sounds like a bunch of NGOs looking for grant$.

It is ironic that Black Americans oversees are frequently targeted by terrorists because the terrorists are told middle class Blacks are more likely to be American than from other countries.

Black Americans here live better compared to Black "immigrants" in Europe and are accepted much more.

P.S. In the Middle East, the word for Black and Slave are the same, and Condelisa Rice is known as "the Slave Woman".

Al
Posted by: Frozen Al   2007-12-11 12:09  

#12  This report is just a cover for the UN getting more control over the US. Same as all their other "Reports". Rinse and repeat.

Nothing to see here. Move along.
Posted by: DarthVader   2007-12-11 11:17  

#11  The record IS abysmal. It does, however, happen to be better than that of virtually any other nation on the planet, past or present.
Posted by: Perfesser   2007-12-11 10:30  

#10  "Abysmal?"

The Secretary of State of the United States (Condoleeza Rice) is the most powerful black woman ever to have walked the Earth.

There is a non-trivial possibility that a person of mixed racial heritage (Sen. Obama) will be the Democrat nominee for president--which means that there is a non-trivial possibility that he could, by virtue of a victory in a free election, become the most powerful person on Earth.

The most popular talk show host in the country (Oprah) is a black woman--so well known that she doesn't need to use her full name. White people the country over cheerfully pay what amounts to millions of dollars to be entertained by Tiger Woods, Denzel Washington, Hallie Berry, Randy Moss, LeBron James, Aretha Franklin, . . . well, I could go on, but you get the point.

Major institutions, including the military and large corporations, are thoroughly salt-and-pepper integrated; black people and white people and all other variations attend concerts and sporting events and commute on the subway all day every day--and with a few unfortunate exceptions, nobody cares.

"Abysmal?" You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
Posted by: Mike   2007-12-11 09:39  

#9  F*ck the UN. F*ck the NGOs. Nattering nabobs of negativism.
Posted by: Spot   2007-12-11 08:22  

#8  The network said US minorities including African Americans, Native Americans, Hispanics and Muslims...

One of these is different from the other three...
Posted by: Raj   2007-12-11 08:05  

#7  America in 2007 is the fairest civilization in human history, IMO.

There is no way to generate equal outcomes for all groups without destroying this country - oh, wait, that's exactly what these critics want - nevermind!
Posted by: Grumenk Philalzabod0723   2007-12-11 07:43  

#6  It seems to me that the people who do face discrimination are white males.

And his discrimination is ok in the eyes of the law.

Making white people "ride the back of the bus" instead of black people is not anti-racist, it's racist.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2007-12-11 07:01  

#5  I still can't believe people get paid for this crap.
Posted by: Mike N.   2007-12-11 01:26  

#4  And take your miserable subculture and their representatives with you.
Posted by: gorb   2007-12-11 01:25  

#3  If it's so bad, move to another country.
Posted by: gorb   2007-12-11 01:25  

#2  International standards? Most places outside of the United States she would be told to get back in the kitchen after a beating. Want to try some real discrimination on, go to Asia or South America. You will find those "international standards" are not even given notice. Bunch of morons the lot of them.
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom   2007-12-11 00:38  

#1  Baraka said the CERD committee offered a way of holding the United States to international standards and decried what he said were efforts to exempt the country from those norms.

"International Standards" by arss. Bloody communist drivel. Let me "offer you a way" to bugger off and die Mr. Baraka, and take all of these leftest organizations with you as well.
Posted by: Besoeker   2007-12-11 00:24  

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