When we have countries compleatly ignoring the basic human rights of their countrymen this seems like a big waste of limited time and money.

Before anyone gets their dander up, let me say that yes there is a remaining problem with racism (both ways) in this country, but for the UN to launch an investigation of this kind against the United States makes me pause and think what is their aganda?

Video here Might want to let it load first.

Before I read your post, and only with the title as a trigger, I was thinking the same thing. The UN might well want to investigate the military Junta in Burma (Myanmar), where perhaps 100,000 deaths are attributable to its lack of concern for human life, let alone human rights.
Z

Perhaps the US should launch a probe into Racism in the UN?


Just a thought.

Your ambassador and yourselves are right. What a waste of UN resources!

Racism will always exist and that is not a good thing, but there you are we have to live with it. But, out of all the countries around the whole world, bar Brazil, the USA and UK are the most intolerant and devoid of racism and we should be commended for that intolerance.

This post has been edited by The Colonel: May 19 2008, 05:58 PM

I find it ironic that most of the citizens of the countries clamoring for the investigation would gladly emigrate to the US if they had half a chance. Certainly there are remnants of racism in the US, but these are not condoned and, bit-by-bit, we are erasing them as contrary to our conception of justice and individual rights. It was the US that was founded on these principles, and these countries derived the very conception of human rights from us.
Cheers,
John

The best thing for the UN to do is to find another place to have their headquarters. Try France.

I'd say there attention would be better focused elsewhere
http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?article26871
http://www.zimbabwetoday.co.uk/2008/04/someone-hacked.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7400122.stm

Better yet, Darfur

Does the UN solve any problems or just create them?

Well it does seem that the UN can, if it wants to, help solve problems. The Secretary-General's visit to Burma seems to have convinced the junta to allow entry of all foreign aid workers, however belatedly. When the problem is one above the political agendas of its members, the UN has shown its best side: one should never forget the quiet working of UNICEF, for example.
Z

Sounds to me as though the members of the U.N. have gotten so sared about what problems the world is facing right now, that they have come up with an agenda to focus our attention towards issues that are not near as important as what they should be dealing with.
It's an old tactic used by everyone sometime in their lives; when you can't solve the problem at hand--- change the subject!

Uh, they might find some h e r e.

Wow, that could be your next president!

When did he say this, I could not find that.

I guess if it was a very long time ago it's not so bad, but still bad. Racism is bad all ways to all peoples, whatever.

The book, "Dreams of My Father" was printed in 1995, so the comments had to have come sometime afterwards.

In any event, those thoughts have contributed to the person Obama is, today, just as the relationship with Reverend Wright surely has.

Along with: William Ayers and Tony Rezko and Obama's wife and, as with all of us, many of his other close friends and associates.

The United States government has lost any right to talk about the human rights violations of any other government in the world. The criminals now in charge of the US Government have been waging a brutal and murderous war against the people of Iraq for over six years. This unprovoked war of aggression has resulted in the deaths of over one million innocent Iraqi men, women, and children. The United States government claims the power to kidnap foriegn nationals and send them to secret torture prisons scattered throughout the world. Americans need to focus less on the misdeeds of foriegn tyrants abroad, and focus more on bringing the criminals in the current regime to justice for waging a war of aggression, torture, kidnapping, illegal snooping, and various other usurpations and high crimes. Once George W Bush and the other criminals in the Bush administration are swinging from the end of rope for lying and forging thier way to war then, and only then, might the United States government regain the moral authority to criticize other governments for thier human rights records.