Posted on 09/09/2001 5:16:15 PM PDT by ATOMIC_PUNK
Greetings again from the World Conference Against Racism. Since I am just downloading these documents from the WCAR website, I am reading them as a jumble, out of order and not sorted by author agency
This document is a prepcom document from the UN Human Rights Commission. It advances a number of interesting proposals from the Africa Group. The bulk of the document is just bureaucratic drivel about organizing the conference, but the proposals of the Africa Group are worth noting.
Some of the suggestions presented in Annex II: Proposals By The Sub-Committee On Racism, Racial Discrimination And Decolonization Of The Special Committee On International Non-Governmental Organizations On Human Rights (Geneva), Section (3): Objectives, include:
>(1) To fight racism, all textbooks worldwide must be rewritten by United Nations anti-racist activists to stress the role of White racism and the victimization of Blacks, erasing White racist "Negationism".
2) To fight racism, anti-racist NGOs should be empowered to commit racially-motivated crimes against majority populations in order to bring attention to institutional racism: then the governments should be brought before the UN to face charges arising from that institutional racism. (See below: First Objective: Non-State Actors)
Now of course, this is couched in terms of majority racism being the problem and the UN stepping in to protect the victim races, but how does it really play out? In Seattle, the public racist lynching of Kris Kime, a White man, led to a coverup by the City and FBI, and compensation being paid to the Black gangs that staged the race riot. The reason why I believe that the UN is actually demanding special rights for Black racist gangs in this proposal is the absence of any discussion of Black-on-White violence in any prepcom or conference meeting, and yet Black-on-White racial violence is the norm for inter-racial crime everywhere in the world. Despite the norm in inter-racial violence being Black-on-White, the United Nations is demanding compensation for such Black gangsters by host governments characterized by the UN as practising institutional racism: that is exactly how I have interpreted this African Group proposal.
(3) The Internet must be censored by United Nations anti-racist activists.
(4) "Aryans", that is Whites, are racists and Jews their eternal victims. Therefore, Whites should have no rights as the first step in fighting racism, and Jews should have super-rights as the corollary to the first step in fighting racism. (It is interesting that the UN Human Rights Commission argues that Aryans European peoples] should not have human rights; to me it sounds so much like Zimbabwean Vice President Joseph Msika, who has been quoted saying: "Whites are not human beings." Guardian (London) August 15, 2001. But then again, Zimbabwean mass murderers were honored by African-American activities in Durban...)
(5) All Whites must be re-educated by the United Nations to embrace the "diversity" that migrants bring to White racist societies
Commission On Human Rights [UNHRC]: Fifty-Fifth Session: Agenda Item 6: Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia And All Forms Of Discrimination: Report Of The Sessional Open-Ended Working Group To Review And Formulate Proposals For The World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia And Related Intolerance. E/CN.4/1999/16. Durban: World Conference Against Racism (WCAR) [UN Conference on Racism], March 16, 1999.
First Obective
Non-State actors: Some non-State actors deliberately break basic principles of law and order and commit racially-motivated crimes when they recognize the lack of will or desire on the part of the Government to confront them. The World Conference should investigate racism attributable to non-State actors, and should examine ways to hold Governments more accountable for the racist acts of non-State actors under their jurisdiction.
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The declaration was almost undone at the last minute by the renewed insistence of Arab states and their supporters to single out Israel by name as a racist state. But the final document did not do so, and it was toned down considerably from language that had prompted the United States and Israel to walk out earlier this week.
The meeting, the United Nations conference on racism, was intended to celebrate tolerance and diversity, but by week's end it risked becoming an international symbol of divisiveness and intolerance as Arabs and Western nations clashed repeatedly over whether to criticize Israel's treatment of the Palestinians.
Even today, as delegates labored to complete the conference documents, renewed mudslinging threatened to further derail a meeting that was already a day behind schedule.
Negotiators had worked all through the night to come up with the document that also condemns discrimination against ethnic minorities, refugees, women, Gypsies and others. The final language was brokered by European diplomats, many of them from former slaving nations, who shouldered the guilt of their grandfathers to find language that might restore dignity to the descendants of the enslaved.
The declaration says that slavery and the slave trade "are a crime against humanity and should always have been so." It says states now have a moral obligation to halt and reverse the lasting consequences of slavery, apartheid and genocide and notes that some government have "taken the initiative to apologize and have paid reparation where appropriate."
The wording fell far short of what had been sought by some Africans, who had demanded an explicit apology and specific promises of compensation from Europe.
The European delegation refused to apologize explicitly, fearing that they might open themselves up to lawsuits. They refused to endorse unconditional debt cancellation and foreign aid.
Still, diplomats from Europe, Africa, Latin America and black Americans attending the meeting here described the document as an important, if imperfect, atonement for an ugly and neglected chapter of history.
"It is not important to know if we are expressing regret, remorse or apology," said Louis Michel, the Belgian foreign minister and leader of the European delegation. "What is important is the recognition of an injustice that we cannot accept."
Amina Mohamed, Kenya's ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva, said she and other African diplomats welcomed the declaration, while acknowledging its limitations.
She said it was necessary to acknowledge the trade in human beings that extended from the 1500's to the mid-1800's, when Europeans shipped about 12 million black slaves from Africa to the New World.
"We have an agreement on a document that is far from satisfactory, that is terribly imperfect, but provides a basis to build on," said Ms. Mohamed, who helped negotiate the agreement. "I think that we owe it to the memory of all those who perished to have the international community declare slavery and the slave trade a crime against humanity."
But even after the declaration and the plan of action were adopted this afternoon, many delegates left the convention center in this port city as divided as when they arrived.
In the middle of today's meeting, Arab delegates and their supporters renewed their insistence on condemning Israel as a racist state. And European and Canadian officials warned that they too might abandon the process if such language was ultimately included in the conference declaration.
From Jerusalem, Israel's foreign minister, Shimon Peres, called the final document a "bitter failure" for the Arab League. "The language that was approved in Durban in our absence," the foreign minister said, "is not the best and we opposed it, but it is completely different from the venomous decisions the extremist countries wanted passed."
Earlier in the day, Arab and Muslim officials had agreed to abandon their criticisms of Israel and to accept a declaration that recognized "the plight of the Palestinians under foreign occupation" as well as "the right to security for all states in the region, including Israel." The agreement also recognized "the rights of refugees to return voluntarily to their homes in dignity and safety."
But in the middle of the meeting this morning, delegates from Pakistan and Syria unexpectedly insisted on adding new language that would assail Israel as a racist, foreign occupying power.
The move stunned officials from across the world, who not long before had burst into applause when South Africa's foreign minister, Dr. Nkosazana Zuma, announced that all the contentious issues that had roiled the meeting this week had been resolved.
The delegates then huddled and conferred and shook their heads in disbelief, as Dr. Zuma pleaded with Arab and Muslim delegates to find a way to accept their original agreement. They ultimately agreed, but they were clearly not satisfied with the final document.
"It fails to condemn the discriminatory policies and practices of Israel, the occupying power," officials from the Organization of Islamic Countries said.
Meanwhile, many Jewish groups left feeling that the meeting had been irrevocably tainted in a week when Yasir Arafat, the Palestinian leader, had assailed the "supremacist-mentality" of Israel and some Arab groups had distributed offensive literature, including posters of Jews with big noses and bloody fangs.
"Sadly, hate ó the hatred of Jews ó was all too evident at this global conference in the new South Africa in which so many placed their hopes," said Felice D. Gaer, director of the Jacob Blaustein Center for the Advancement of Human Rights in New York. "I came hoping to strategize about ending discrimination and intolerance. I leave wondering if those strategies will ever be heard."
It was concern about such criticisms of Israel that persuaded the Bush administration not to send Secretary of State Colin L. Powell to the conference. The United States also objected to an apology for slavery and any mention of reparations, fearful of lawsuits from black Americans.
But African-Americans here said the agreement would inspire pride among blacks and lend momentum to efforts for reparations in the form of scholarship funds and individual compensation for the descendants of slaves.
Wade Henderson, the executive director of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights in Washington, said: "For African descendants, I think the agreement offers a genuine breakthrough. By recognizing slavery as a crime against humanity, the document sets the stage for legislative and legal action to address historic inequities."NY Times.com</a href>
This is nazi bull$hit. This came out of your own excuse for a brain, not from the actual report.
There is enough to legitimately criticize in the UN report without inventing this kind of crap.
TRY CLICKING ON THE LINK SUPPLIED AND READING IT FOR YOURSELF
I didnt write this im just reporting it
I posted this because thus far the agendas at best that they were discussing from most accounts were shall i say fuzzy at best ...This was their whole agenda what was to be discused and possably ratified at this time
From the artilcles ive searched and the wbsites ive seen none seem to go into the depth this one does seems to me they were trying to hide it and if you notice at the bottom of the linked site it is writte TO BE sighned with the 1999 date does this mean that it was backdated or changed theres no evidence of it and yet it seems suspicious to me that it would be worded this way
Negationism falsifies and distorts the past, often in ways that condone the massacres and tragic persecution of racial and ethnic groups. It deliberately minimizes the victims' sufferings, and denies or tries to justify genocide or other crimes against humanity. The World Conference should examine the racist motivations often at the root of negationism and the selective history it imposes. This kind of racism cloaks itself in free expression and historical licence. Public opinion gives these distorted views a forum: textbooks lend them official sanction. The upcoming World Conference should address this sensitive, dangerous issue.
It does not exactly say that all textbooks should be re-written, ATOMIC_PUNK. The document you linked just says that the issue of racist textbooks should be discussed.
I have heard rumors (never seen one myself) saying that Arab schoolbooks used to show the Jews being pushed into the sea, calling for "cleansing" of Israel. I don't think US textbooks contain such material, but if they do, people should be aware of it.
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Now this is a hoot. Clinton talked several times about a big book, a big effort, on race in the USA. He was always working on it, it sometimes was close to completion, but for some strange reason we never saw it and when he was leaving office no reporter ever asked him about it.
I did click on the link but I did not see the text that you are quoting. Where does it say:
"Aryans", that is Whites, are racists and Jews their eternal victims. Therefore, Whites should have no rights as the first step in fighting racism, and Jews should have super-rights as the corollary to the first step in fighting racism. ?????
If you didn't make this up, whom exactly are you quoting?
And don't forget, "Zionists," that is Jews, are racists and Palestinians their eternal victims.
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