Charlottesville: United Nations warns US over 'alarming' racism

[Equinox Moon]

Source: Guradian

A UN committee charged with tackling racism has issued an “early warning” over conditions in the US and urged the Trump administration to “unequivocally and unconditionally” reject discrimination.

Such statements are usually issued by the United Nations committee on the elimination of racial discrimination (Cerd) over fears of ethnic or religious conflict. In the past decade, the only other countries issued with early warnings have been Burundi, Iraq, Ivory Coast, Kyrgyzstan and Nigeria.

The United States has been warned under the procedure in the past when Cerd raised the issue of land rights conflicts with the Western Shoshone indigenous peoples in 2006.

“We are alarmed by the racist demonstrations, with overtly racist slogans, chants and salutes by white nationalists, neo-Nazis, and the Ku Klux Klan, promoting white supremacy and inciting racial discrimination and hatred,” said Anastasia Crickley, chair of the committee.



Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/aug/23/charlottesville-un-committee-warns-us-over-rise-of-racism

[sandensea]

1. "The UN!?! Soros must've put'em up to it!"

[INdemo]

5. Where is the Nazi tatoo?

[sandensea]

7. This photo's years old.

He's probably got several by now - plus a real beer belly.

[Yonnie3]

2. Trump administration to "unequivocally and unconditionally" ...

Trump + "unequivocally" = oxymoron
Trump + "unconditionally” = oxymoron

Trump has achieved another first in lows.

The UN is right, but will it have any effect on 45? I doubt it.

[unblock]

3. in fact, i'm sure he figures if he's ticking off the u.n., he must be doing something right....

[Equinox Moon]

4. I think it does have effect;

it is accumulative effect.

[Yonnie3]

6. I agree with you.

This UN action in and of itself will not have a discernible effect. The steady stream of people refusing to talk with him, quitting his councils and so on, will have a profound effect on him. It has gotten to the point where he cannot just tweet, "fake news", "losers" etc. and feel better. This all will have a profound effect on the self esteem of the "winner" and the "best deal maker."

He will become desperate as these things weigh more and more on him. I am afraid of what he will do to try to prove he is a 'winner."

[Equinox Moon]

8. Honestly! What does it take to learn something about oneself?

To not back down and realize one is wrong about something, will definitively display a mental pathology.

[Yonnie3]

9. He is at the developmental level of a four year old. n/t

[Archae]

10. This from the UN?

After they put Venezuela and Saudi Arabia on the "human rights council," they should just shut the fuck up until they clean their own house.

[7962]

11. I decided to wait for someone else to say it. Thank you.

Didnt they also put Sudan on it at one time too?

[Archae]

13. I don't know.

We need to clean our own house of voting irregularities and racism, and the UN has to do likewise.

[Initech]

12. Trump and the deplorables won't care.

[jcmaine72]

14. Trump's white supremacist constituents are an international embarrassment.

Worse, they're a universal embarrassment. One can only hope is that some advanced Alien civilization isn't watching us from afar and judging us too harshly as a result this hate-drenched trash.