From the New York Times news section:
U.N. Report Calls for Sweeping Action to Root Out Racism
The report draws on evidence from 60 countries and urges nations to take action to root out systemic racism against people of African descent.
By Nick Cumming-Bruce
June 28, 2021GENEVA — The United Nations human rights chief urged nations to take action to root out systemic racism against people of African descent on Monday, as she released a report calling for measures to dismantle discrimination and for sweeping changes to policing, as well as reparations.
“The status quo is untenable,” Michelle Bachelet, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, said in a statement. “Systemic racism needs a systemic response. There is today a momentous opportunity to achieve a turning point for racial equality and justice.”
The 20-page report and an accompanying 95-page conference paper draw on evidence from 60 countries. …
“We could not find a single example of a state that has fully reckoned with the past or comprehensively accounted for the impacts on the lives of people of African descent today,” said Mona Rishmawi, who supervised the preparation of the report. …
White people are so evil that they can’t even let blacks luck into an even break in a single one of those 60 countries. It’s a conspiracy! I mean, what else could explain blacks going 0 for 60?
… It points to common patterns of experience for people of African descent in Europe, Latin America and North America contending with poverty and with barriers to education, health care, jobs and political participation.
It’s tragic that blacks don’t have their own countries, perhaps even their own continent where they can be free from white people’s microaggressions.
The report spotlights the deaths of 190 people of African descent who died at the hands of law-enforcement officers, most of them in the United States, pointing out that few of the victims posed a threat.
It analyzes seven emblematic cases, including those involving Mr. Floyd and Breonna Taylor in the United States, together with cases from Brazil, Britain, Colombia and France. Only the death of Mr. Floyd has resulted in police being held to account.
Science!
The report calls for reparations as an essential step to addressing the suffering inflicted by slavery and colonialism.
How could the U.N. forget about hair-touching?
Monetary compensation was important, the report said, but reparations “should not only be equated with financial compensation.” They could also include formal acknowledgment and apologies, educational reform and measures to commemorate the experience of people of African descent, it said.
Ms. Bachelet will present the report to the United Nations Human Rights Council next month at the start of a debate that will test the Biden administration’s willingness to engage on racism in a multilateral setting. …
