{"id":1678,"date":"2008-05-17T13:37:45","date_gmt":"2008-05-17T17:37:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=1678"},"modified":"2008-05-17T13:39:27","modified_gmt":"2008-05-17T17:39:27","slug":"un-to-investigate-us-racism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=1678","title":{"rendered":"UN to investigate US racism"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yeah, we need to keep funding this POS organization (REUTERS<\/a> Link);<\/p>\n

A special U.N. human rights investigator will visit the United States this month to probe racism, an issue that has forced its way into the race to secure the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Visit? From where? New York City isn’t in the US?<\/p>\n

“The special rapporteur will…gather first-hand information on issues related to racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance,” a U.N. statement said on Friday.<\/p>\n

His three-week visit, at U.S. government invitation, will cover eight cities — Washington D.C., New York, Chicago, Omaha, Los Angeles, New Orleans, Miami and San Juan, Puerto Rico.<\/p>\n

Race has become a central issue in the U.S. election cycle because Sen. Barack Obama, the frontrunner in the battle for the Democratic nomination battle, stands to become the country’s first African American president.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There isn’t somewhere else in the world where there’s a little more racism to investigate? Like Africa where tribes murder each other by hundreds of thousands. How about Thailand – almost every week there’s a story about the ROP beheading some priest or monk there. But no, this “special rapporteur” has already made a name for himself;<\/p>\n

In a report last year he said Islamophobia had grown worldwide since the September 11 2001 attacks on the United States, carried out by al-Qaeda militants.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I wonder if there was an uptick in Islamophobia after the Madrid bombings, the London bombings, the Bali bombings….<\/p>\n

Little Green Footballs<\/a> knows him, too;<\/p>\n

Doudou Di\u00e8ne was last seen at LGF when he was denouncing Denmark for racism\u2014for publishing the dreaded cartoons of Mohammed: UN on Wrong Side of Cartoon Jihad<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So, I wonder how this investigation will turn out (No, not really).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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