U.N Probes U.S. for Racism

From May 19^th to June 6^th a representative of the United Nations will be visiting eight U.S. cities in an effort to discern the level of racism in America. "The special rapporteur will…gather first hand information on issues related to racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance,"a U.N. spokesperson said on Friday. Doudou Diene, who was a Senegalese lawyer, will be conducting the probe. Mr. Diene will be visiting Washington D.C., New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Omaha, New Orleans, Miami, and San Juan Puerto Rico. During this eight city tour Mr. Diene will be meeting with local and federal officials along with lawmakers, and judicial members. Ahh yes, apparently racism is so prevalent in America that the U.N. feels it's now necessary to send a Human Rights investigator. That to me is like the pot calling the kettle black. The temerity of the United Nations never ceases to astound me. This is an international organization that made billions on the oil for food program, whose peacekeepers raped women and young girls, an organization whose Human Rights Committee members comes from some of the most radical, and violent regimes in the world. I've written in the past that the only place racism exist in America is in the mind of the black man and woman. Through the media, and political groups, black men and women are continually feed images of a time that no longer exist in American society. I've also wrote in past posts that although some racism still exist in America, it is not even close to the level that it once achieved. Since September 11^th 2001 some 800 racially motivated incidents against Muslim, Arab, or Asian decent have been investigated by federal authorities. And there is the difference. That these incidents were reported and that action was taken to rectify the problem, and not to simply sweep it under the carpet as it were. Although 800 sounds like a lot, if you do the math that equals out to about 100 cases a year. Also when you put that into perspective with an American population that's well over 350 million, suddenly those 800 racial incidents do not sound like a lot.