UN Investigator on Racism Completes U.S. Tour

FinalCall.com ^ | 06.25.2008 | Saeed Shabazz

[Coffee200am]

UNITED NATIONS (FinalCall.com) - Doudou Diene, a Sengalese lawyer and the United Nations Human Rights Council special rapporteur on racism, has completed a tour of eight American cities, where he gathered firsthand information on issues related to racial discrimination and xenophobia.

At a June 6 press conference in the UN Information Center in Washington, D.C., Mr. Diene talked with reporters about some preliminary findings of his three week tour. While citing some positive things such as the nomination of Senator Barack Obama (D-Ill.) as the Democratic Party candidate for the presidency, Mr. Diene focused on U.S. shortcomings such as resegregation of minority communities. The expert on racism and special investigator cited racial bias in the criminal justice system and talked about how underfunding of public education plays a role in deepening racial inequality. Mr. Diene explained he is not a UN employee and that he would be reporting to the UN General Assembly in the spring of 2009, but that his findings would be shared with U.S. government officials.

“We definitely feel that this was an important and timely tour,” said Ajamu Baraka, executive director of the Atlanta-based U.S. Human Rights Network, a coalition of over 250 American social justice and human rights organizations.

Mr. Baraka told The Final Call the Diene tour was an “opportunity to expose the underbelly of White supremacy in the country.” The number one fight for people of color in the 21st century is the fight for human rights, Mr. Baraka said.

In March, his organization charged the Bush administration with failing to comply with its obligations under the International Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Racial Discrimination, an international treaty that the United States signed.

The U.S. Human Rights Network report, known as a shadow report, was filed with the UN committee based in Geneva, Switzerland that monitors compliance with the treaty.

“Our analysis revealed that the Bush administration is utterly out of touch with the reality of racial discrimination in America. The special rapporteur’s tour was an opportunity for the UN to hear from other voices in the U.S. on the issues of racial oppression,” Mr. Baraka said.

Mr. Diene visited New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles, New Orleans, Miami, Puerto Rico and Washington, DC.

In Miami, Mr. Diene heard testimony from Sofian Abdelaziz Zakkout, director of the American Muslim Association of North America, who discussed issues related to immigration, racial profiling and discrimination against the dress of Muslim women.

Aesop Ameen, director of the association’s prison committee, talked about the difficulties Muslims experience in prison when trying to adhere to their faith, including challenges when trying to pray.

Muslim civil rights advocate Ahmed Bedier explained to Mr. Diene how “Islamaphobia” and “anti-Muslim rhetoric” from officials and pundits are contributing to hate crimes against Muslims across Florida.

Tonya Williams, a U.S. Human Rights Network coordinator, told The Final Call grassroots organizations that participated in the forum in New Orleans “were particularly elated with the opportunity to tell their stories.”

The special rapporteur was able to gain knowledge of the “broader implications” of Hurricane Katrina and how the Black populations of Alabama and Mississippi were affected, she said.

Damon Hewitt, an NAACP Legal Defense Fund attorney, said Mr. Diene also got a look into the workings of the prison system through testimony about conditions at the Louisiana State Prison at Angola, a former 18,000 acre slave plantation. Testimony delivered before the special rapporteur showed little has changed in the last several hundred years of the prison’s existence. Even Congress recently heard complaints about the prison’s practice of keeping some inmates in solitary confinement for decades, said advocates.

“We will continue to expose these issues, and we will continue to mobilize people around these issues,” Mr. Baraka told The Final Call.

[Coffee200am]

Apparently this is for Muslims only...

[Sender]

I can’t wait to read the Doudou Diaries. (not) Maybe Doudou can compare the quality of life for blacks in his native Senegal with life in America today?

[CPOSharky]

... the last several hundred years of the prison’s existence...

How long has the prison at Angola been in existance?

[rawcatslyentist]

Mr. Diene focused on U.S. shortcomings such as our refusal to send good faith money to any Nigerians, just because they have more melanin!

[ETL]

FinalCall.com is the website of Louie Farrakhan's Nation of Islam.

The following is also from Final Call...

Malik Zulu Shabazz, chairman of the New Black Panther Party for Self-Defense (NBPP):
"We are happy today to be standing side by side with the Nation of Islam. We believe, like the Nation of Islam and the Honorable Elijah Muhammad believe, in a nation of our own. We believe in a Black first philosophy and a Black Liberation Theology. We don’t worry about the criticism. We love all of those who labored in the Panther Party from the ’60s. Many are with us today."
http://www.finalcall.com/artman/publish/article_1858.shtml

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From the Maoist Internationist Movement:
[1960s] Black Panther Party [BPP] Archives
From the article: REVOLUTIONARY HEROES

excerpt...

"On May 1st, May Day [1969], the day of the gigantic Free Huey rally, two of Alioto's top executioners vamped on the brothers from the Brown Community who were attending to their own affairs. These brothers, who are endowed with the revolutionary spirit of the Black Panther Party defended themselves from the racist pig gestapo.

Pig Joseph Brodnik received his just reward with a big hole in the chest. Pig Paul McGoran got his in the mouth which was not quite enough to off him.

The revolutionary brothers escaped the huge swarm of pigs with dogs, mace, tanks and helicopters, proving once again that "the spirit of the people is greater than the man's technology."

To these brothers the revolutionary people of racist America want to say, by your revolutionary deed you are heroes, and that you are always welcome to our camp."

Source: Maoist Internationist Movement
Article: REVOLUTIONARY HEROS (May 11, 1969):
http://www.etext.org/Politics/MIM/bpp/index.html

Louis Farrakhan, at the Millions More Movement rally in DC, Oct 15, 2005: "...what Mao Tse Tung did was, he went to the cultural community, and they [Farrakhan spreads his arms beneficently] accepted his idea."..."Mao Tse Tung ... had a billion people whose lives he had to transform."..."the idea of Mao Tse Tung became the idea of a billion people, and China became a world power on the base of the culture and the arts community. If we had a ministry of art and culture in every city we'd create this movement [in the U.S.]."
Source: http://thedrunkablog.blogspot.com/2005/10/communist-plot-noted.html

Louis Farrakhan, Santiago de Cuba, February, 1998: "There is not a member of the black masses in the United States who is not proud of the example set by Cuba and its revolution, with Comandante Fidel at its head"
Source: http://www.fiu.edu/~fcf/farakhan21898.html#says

Rev. Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright, Obama's pastor and spirtual advisor "crazy uncle" of more than 20 years, honors "Honorable" Minister Louis Farrakhan with the "Jeremiah A. Wright Lifetime Achievement Trumpeteer Award" at the 2007 Trumpet Gala held at the Hyatt Regency Chicago.
[it appears the original video was removed, but this one is identical to it]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jW2OhkZ0RSg

Louis Farrakhan, at the annual Saviours' Day celebration in Chicago, Feb. 25, 2008: "This young man is the hope of the entire world that America will change and be made better"..."If you look at Barack Obama's audiences and look at the effect of his words, those people are being transformed."
Source: http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=4337417

"God Damn America, U.S. to Blame for 9/11"
--Rev Dr. Jeremiah Wright, Obama's pastor for twenty years

Wright: "In the 21st century, white America got a wake-up call after 9/11/01. White America and the Western world came to realize that people of color had not gone away, faded into the woodwork or just 'disappeared' as the Great White West kept on its merry way of ignoring Black concerns."

"America’s chickens... are coming home... to ROOST!"

The Real Story Behind Rev. Wright's Controversial Black Liberation Theology Doctrine
Monday , May 5, 2008
FoxNews/Hannity's America
[special Friday night edition--original airdate May 2, 2008]

(some key excerpts)

JOSE DIAZ-BALART, TELEMUNDO NETWORK: "Liberation theology in Nicaragua in the mid-1980's was a pro-Sandinista, pro-Marxist, anti-U.S., anti-Catholic Church movement. That's it. No ifs, ands, or buts. His church apparently supported, in the mid-'80s in Nicaragua, groups that supported the Sandinista dictatorships and that were opposed to the Contras whose reason for being was calling for elections. That's all I know. I was there.

I saw the churches in Nicaragua that he spoke of, and the churches were churches that talked about the need for violent revolution and I remember clearly one of the major churches in Managua where the Jesus Christ on the altar was not Jesus Christ, he was a Sandinista soldier, and the priests talked about the corruption of the West, talked about the need for revolution everywhere, and talked about 'the evil empire' which was the United States of America."

REV. BOB SCHENCK, NATIONAL CLERGY COUNCIL: "it's based in Marxism. At the core of his [Wright's] theology is really an anti-Christian understanding of God, and as part of a long history of individuals who actually advocate using violence in overthrowing those they perceive to be oppressing them, even acts of murder have been defended by followers of liberation theology. That's very, very dangerous."

SCHENCK: "I was actually the only person escorted to Dr. Wright. He asked to see me, and I simply welcomed him to Washington, and then I said Dr. Wright, I want to bring you a warning: your embrace of Marxist liberation theology. It is contrary to the Gospel, and you need, sir, to abandon it. And at that he dropped the handshake and made it clear that he was not in the mood to dialogue on that point."

Source: The Real Story Behind Rev. Wright's Controversial Black Liberation Theology Doctrine:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,354158,00.html

Obama's Church: Gospel of Hate
Kathy Shaidle, FrontPageMag.com
Monday, April 07, 2008

In March of 2007, FOX News host Sean Hannity had engaged Obama’s pastor in a heated interview about his Church’s teachings. For many viewers, the ensuing shouting match was their first exposure to "Black Liberation Theology"...

Like the pro-communist Liberation Theology that swept Central America in the 1980s and was repeatedly condemned by Pope John Paul II, Black Liberation Theology combines warmed-over 1960s vintage Marxism with carefully distorted biblical passages. However, in contrast to traditional Marxism, it emphasizes race rather than class. The Christian notion of "salvation" in the afterlife is superseded by "liberation" on earth, courtesy of the establishment of a socialist utopia.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=30CD9E14-B0C9-4F8C-A0A6-A896F0F44F02

From "45 Communist Goals":
#27. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with "social" religion.
http://www.uhuh.com/nwo/communism/comgoals.htm

Catholics for Marx
By Fr. Robert Sirico
FrontPageMagazine.com | Thursday, June 03, 2004

In the days when the Superpowers were locked in a Cold War, Latin America seethed with revolution, and millions lived behind an iron curtain, a group of theologians concocted a novel idea within the history of Christianity. They proposed to combine the teachings of Jesus with the teachings of Marx as a way of justifying violent revolution to overthrow the economics of capitalism.

The Gospels were re-rendered not as doctrine impacting on the human soul but rather as windows into the historical dialectic of class struggle. These "liberation theologians" saw every biblical criticism of the rich as a mandate to expropriate the expropriating owners of capital, and every expression of compassion for the poor as a call for an uprising by the proletarian class of peasants and workers.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=460782B7-35CC-4C9E-A2C5-93832067C7CD

From Jeff Head's website...
One notable quote from [James] Cone describing his Black Liberation Theology is as follows:

"Black theology refuses to accept a God who is not identified totally with the goals of the black community. If God is not for us and against white people, then he is a murderer, and we had better kill him. The task of black theology is to kill Gods who do not belong to the black community ... Black theology will accept only the love of God which participates in the destruction of the white enemy. What we need is the divine love as expressed in Black Power, which is the power of black people to destroy their oppressors here and now by any means at their disposal. Unless God is participating in this holy activity, we must reject his love." - "Divine Racism: The Unacknowledged Threshold Issue for Black Theology", in African-American Religious Thought: An Anthology, by William R Jones, ed Cornel West and Eddie Glaube (Westminster John Knox Press).
http://www.jeffhead.com/blacklibtheology.htm

From the New York Times, April 28, 2008
Reverend Wright at the National Press Club
"In the late 1960s, when Dr. James Cone's powerful books burst onto the scene, the term 'black liberation theology' began to be used. I do not in any way disagree with Dr. Cone, nor do I in any way diminish the inimitable and incomparable contributions that he has made and that he continues to make to the field of theology. Jim, incidentally, is a personal friend of mine."
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/28/us/politics/28text-wright.html?_r=1&ref=politics&oref=sloginL

YouTube: Glenn Beck on Obama and Black Liberation Theology.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cA0GEV1ibY&eurl=http://maggiesnotebook.blogspot.com/2008/04/im-speechless.html

[Dilbert San Diego]

The Final Call is the newspaper of the Nation of Islam. The tone of this article seems like it’s written with that readership in mind.

[ComputerGuy]

...opportunity to expose the underbelly of White supremacy in the country...

I wonder if he means things like intelligence, curiosity, creativity and motivation ?

[wideawake]

How long has the prison at Angola been in existance?

Since 1880.

It was a plantation from 1830 to 1880.

[stylin19a]

um....don't we already boycott this council ? so why should we give 2 spits about an outcome, the results of which we already knew ?

[CPOSharky]

How long has the prison at Angola been in existance?

Since 1880.

That's hardly several hundred years.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

So Mr. Diene found that white men are discriminated against in the US?

[12Gauge687]

The only thing important about this tour was the free money for DouDou (he’s no Dodo).

[girlangler]

Ping

[Antoninus]

Yes, there are racists in America. A few of them are even white.

[jazusamo]

This turkey Doudou Diene is further over the edge than I thought when I first read about him and his tour.

Thanks for the ping, Girl.

[wideawake]

That's hardly several hundred years.

Of course. One of the basic data points of "black consciousness" is that black people in the New World have been slaves for 400 years ("400 years without justice!", "400 years without a paycheck!", etc.)- therefore, the plantation which Angola used to be must have been around since 1600.

[Uncle Miltie]

"Doudou Diene, a Sengalese lawyer"

"Senegal is a source, transit, and destination country for children and women trafficked for the purposes of forced labor and commercial sexual exploitation. Trafficking within the country is more prevalent than trans-border trafficking and the majority of victims are children. Within Senegal, religious teachers traffic boys, called talibe, by promising to educate them, but subjecting them instead to forced begging and physical abuse. A 2007 study done by UNICEF, the ILO, and the World Bank found that 6,480 talibe were forced to beg in Dakar alone. Women and girls are trafficked for domestic servitude and sexual exploitation, including for sex tourism, within Senegal. Transnationally, boys are trafficked to Senegal from The Gambia, Mali, Guinea-Bissau, and Guinea for forced begging by religious teachers. Senegalese women and girls are trafficked to neighboring countries, the Middle East, and Europe for domestic servitude and possibly for sexual exploitation. Women and girls from other West African countries, particularly Liberia, Ghana, Sierra Leone, and Nigeria may be trafficked to Senegal for sexual exploitation, including for sex tourism. - U.S. State Dept Trafficking in Persons Report, June, 2008"

http://gvnet.com/humantrafficking/Senegal.htm

[Uncle Miltie]

“Muslim civil rights advocate Ahmed Bedier explained to Mr. Diene how “Islamaphobia” and “anti-Muslim rhetoric” from officials and pundits are contributing to hate crimes against Muslims across Florida.”

Note that Anti-Jewish Hate Crimes are 6 times more prevalent than those against Muslims, in spite of 9/11.

Bias motivation Incidents Offenses Victims1 Known
offenders2

Total 7,649 9,035 9,528 7,145
Single-Bias Incidents 7,642 9,021 9,514 7,136
Race: 4,042 4,863 5,119 4,173
Anti-White 829 998 1,027 1,085
Anti-Black 2,731 3,281 3,475 2,694
Anti-American Indian/Alaskan Native 83 97 100 97
Anti-Asian/Pacific Islander 217 252 266 188
Anti-Multiple Races, Group 182 235 251 109
Religion: 1,374 1,480 1,586 604
Anti-Jewish 954 1,003 1,076 330
Anti-Catholic 57 57 68 37
Anti-Protestant 38 43 48 28
Anti-Islamic 156 193 201 124
Anti-Other Religion 128 140 147 68
Anti-Multiple Religions, Group 35 37 39 14
Anti-Atheism/Agnosticism/etc. 6 7 7 3
Sexual Orientation: 1,197 1,406 1,482 1,258
Anti-Male Homosexual 738 855 902 832
Anti-Female Homosexual 164 201 212 163
Anti-Homosexual 245 297 314 224
Anti-Heterosexual 33 35 36 22
Anti-Bisexual 17 18 18 17
Ethnicity/National Origin: 972 1,201 1,254 1,047
Anti-Hispanic 475 611 646 585
Anti-Other Ethnicity/National Origin 497 590 608 462
Disability: 57 71 73 54
Anti-Physical 23 23 24 16
Anti-Mental 34 48 49 38
Multiple-Bias Incidents3 7 14 14 9

http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/cius_04/offenses_reported/hate_crime/index.html

[max americana]

***Mr. Diene visited New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles, New Orleans, Miami, Puerto Rico and Washington, DC***

Wow, so basically this UN lackey visited cities where whitey is close to being a minority. How informative...

Did Mr. Diene visit Beverly Hills or Hyde Park when he was in L.A.?

[gardengirl]

Ugh! Evidently this fine, upstanding lawyer hasn't been on his own continent lately. Or maybe he's a close friend of Mugabe? Or maybe it's only injustice and discrimination if it happens in America? We're digging our own graves, folks, and future generations will look back and shake their heads over how the greatest nation in the history of the world ALLOWED tehmselves to be led to slaughter by corrupt and greedy politicians.