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A senior U.N. official reflects on America
Los Angeles Times ^ | August 25, 2016 | Jaweed Kaleem

Posted on 08/25/2016 7:11:32 AM PDT by artichokegrower

It’s not every day that a senior United Nations official reprimands the U.S. for its race relations, saying the country is “struggling to live up to its ideals” on equality, that “blunt discrimination” by police against black Americans has reached “crisis levels,” and that Congress is “dysfunctional” in how it responds to problems.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: obamalegacy; un
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Welcome to America now let me get you a nice hot cup of STFU!
1 posted on 08/25/2016 7:11:32 AM PDT by artichokegrower
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It’s not every day that a senior United Nations official reprimands the U.S. for its race relations

Yeah it is.

2 posted on 08/25/2016 7:12:54 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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I would ask this fat SOB Maina Kiai Kenya exactly what percentage of his homeland people have indoor plumbing and porcelain toilets?

Frigging pontificating politicos.


3 posted on 08/25/2016 7:15:14 AM PDT by Gaffer
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4 posted on 08/25/2016 7:15:24 AM PDT by tomkat (.gov = freedom's enemy)
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To: BenLurkin

Get the USA out of the UN and the UN out of the USA!


5 posted on 08/25/2016 7:16:04 AM PDT by Don Corleone (Oil the gun, eat the cannolis, take it to the mattress.)
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To: BenLurkin

It’s not every day that a senior United Nations official reprimands the U.S. for its race relations
Yeah it is.


Response of the day!


6 posted on 08/25/2016 7:17:28 AM PDT by Mr. Douglas (Today is your life. What are you going to do with it?)
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To: BenLurkin

Betcha the writer is of the Pauline Kael set that “lives in a rather special world”, but unlike Kael, is unaware of it.


7 posted on 08/25/2016 7:18:43 AM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: artichokegrower

I’d like to hear his thoughts on the discrimination against Christians in muslim countries? Also his thoughts on the subjugation of women inmuslim countries? Or how about the treatment of homosexuals in muslim countries?


8 posted on 08/25/2016 7:20:27 AM PDT by rfreedom4u (The root word of vigilante is vigilant!)
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How are we supposed to tell this Kenyan from the other one in the White House?


9 posted on 08/25/2016 7:22:45 AM PDT by Pelham (Best.Election.Ever)
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Ethnic cleansing comes up when I google Kenya.


10 posted on 08/25/2016 7:24:14 AM PDT by Dogbert41 (All the days of my life were written in your book before there was one of them!)
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It’s a Kenyan thing; you wouldn’t understand.


11 posted on 08/25/2016 7:24:25 AM PDT by FirstFlaBn
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I wonder how much his third-world paradise gets in aid from the evil racistt taxpayers in the US.? If he feels so strongly, he should end that subsidy ASAP.

Get out of the UN, now.


12 posted on 08/25/2016 7:25:25 AM PDT by wac3rd (Somewhere in Hell, Ted Kennedy snickers....)
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Word!


13 posted on 08/25/2016 7:27:56 AM PDT by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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Actually, that’s really all they do, aside from not paying parking tickets. I challenge anyone to come up with something constructive that the UN has EVER done!


14 posted on 08/25/2016 7:28:53 AM PDT by gr8eman (Don't waste your energy trying to understand commies. Use it to defeat them!)
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It seems ironic that a Kenyan lawyer would be criticizing the results of America having a Kenyan president


15 posted on 08/25/2016 7:30:46 AM PDT by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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Two or three shades darker and that guy could be Idi Amin DaDa - emperor for life.


16 posted on 08/25/2016 7:31:46 AM PDT by Gaffer
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Hell the Kenyan paternal birth family of the president of the us still,doesn’t have indoor plumbing - and you expect the rest of the country to ?


17 posted on 08/25/2016 7:32:56 AM PDT by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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Throw the jerk out

Considering what Muslim countries do to people, I don’t need no stinking lecture


18 posted on 08/25/2016 7:35:02 AM PDT by Nifster (Ignore all polls. Get Out The Vote)
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From Human Rights Watch Org:

Kenya’s efforts to tackle its escalating security crisis have been marred by serious human rights violations by Kenyan security forces, including extrajudicial killings, arbitrary detentions, and torture. The government rarely investigates or prosecutes security officers for such abuse. The government has been slow in implementing key reforms identified as crucial to addressing Kenya’s political crisis, including land reform and stronger accountability mechanisms, and security sector reforms. Kenya has tried to restrict civil society and independent media. There has been no tangible progress on accountability for crimes committed during the post-elections violence of 2007-8, which left at least 1,100 dead and 650,000 displaced.

19 posted on 08/25/2016 7:35:50 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: FirstFlaBn


20 posted on 08/25/2016 7:36:26 AM PDT by Pelham (Best.Election.Ever)
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