Us? Racist? Pish posh!

By The Elahater

Well, what do you all think?

U.N. racism envoy tours United States

UNITED NATIONS, May 20 (UPI) — A U.N. investigator of racism and discrimination has begun a three-week visit to examine human rights abuses in the United States, a statement says

…..Some United States officials say the U.N. itself allows some of the worst rights abusers to sit on its own Human Rights Council.

“I think it’s important for the Human Rights Council to spend its time on real problems and the problems of violations of human rights of countries that are notorious violators,” said U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Zalmay Khalilzad. “But we welcome the visit.”

Yes, welcome! In fact, use our welcome mat to help you in your investigation:

Racism in America? NO!

There are many countries with notorious human rights abuses way worse than anything that goes on here and deserve more attention than this—trust me, I don’t argue with that. But no real problems? I think we’re unsettled by having such an ugly phrase used to describe our country. I guess “boys will be boys” goes down easier than “human rights abuse.”

Also, according to this story, the reason racism now is such a hot topic now is because of the presidential race:

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

Yeah, because racism was practically a dead topic before he came along, right?

Slavery WAS a long time ago, you know. The 25th Anniversary edition is already out!

Later in the article:

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.

It also said America should impose a moratorium on the death penalty and stop sentencing young offenders to life in prison until it can root out racial bias from its justice system.

Oh, U.N. I mean, when you tell other countries to stop doing things—ya know, like wrongly jailing or denying education to people—that’s for real. But telling us what to do? This could turn ugly…

You first, America?