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U.N. to investigate racism in America

It's bad enough that the U.S. — and, of course, Israel — come in for obsessive attention at the United Nations' Durban conferences on racism and human rights while the real offenders are ignored. Now comes word that a "special U.N. human rights investigator will visit the United States this month to probe racism" in the most tolerant country in the history of man.

GENEVA (Reuters) - 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.

The United Nations said Doudou Diene would meet federal and local officials, as well as lawmakers and judicial authorities during the May 19-June 6 visit.

"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.

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.

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.

Someone should alert the Sengalese attorney that racists who don't want to vote for Obama are clinging to God and guns in the hills and hinterlands of rural America. So if he wants to do a thorough job, he's gonna have to sacrifice padding his expense account in fancy hotels and restaurants and venture out of the big cities. Unless, of course, he's already got his mind made up.

And if he's typical of the Durban dopes, he has. America is guilty — even before we get a chance to vote (or not vote) for Obama. Why? Because "Islamaphobia" has grown worldwide — and in America — since the 9/11 attacks.

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.

A U.N. panel which examined the U.S. record on racial discrimination last March urged the United States to halt racial profiling of Americans of Arab, Muslim and South Asian descent and to ensure immigrants and non-nationals are not mistreated.

Ummm, has the U.N. never heard of Norm Mineta and his "frisk granny" airport policies? The fact that we don't racially profile in our domestic security process is the defining feature of it.

This is silly and tragic at the same time. The U.N. turns a blind eye to Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe — who ran white farmers off their land and turned "Africa's breadbasket" into a famine-stricken country. The U.N. bureaucrats have little to say (let alone do) about the oppression of Christian blacks in the Sudan, where Muslims take them as slaves. Not to mention the basket-case junta in Burma that is letting its people die instead of accepting humanitarian aid.

What's is troubling is that the U.N. will waste two weeks in America looking for racism under every stone at the invitation of the U.S. government.

SayAnything blog notes:

And I wonder just who he will be “gathering information” from? The left and their politically correct sock puppets in the media, as well as their pet politicians will no doubt be standing in line for this one.

Condi Rice, call your office. Then explain why the U.S. State Department is not criticizing the U.N. for this farce, but apparently participating in it.

(HT: K-Lo at The Corner).

Posted by Dr. Zaius at May 17, 2008 09:54 AM | TrackBack