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The US Human Rights Record: Slavery, Racism and Genocide Slavery in the US They used to “drive nails into a hogshead so as to leave the point of the nail just protruding in the inside of the cask. They would then put a slave into the cask, nail the lid shut, and roll it down a very long and steep hill.” The slave owners would flog them to death, until they were just one mass of blood and raw flesh, thinking nothing more of it than of a dog being killed. The stories of the immense and heartless cruelty done by white Americans to their black slaves, would make you shrink in horror at the inhuman savagery of it all. But Americans will insist that their country was founded on Christian values, on ‘freedom and human rights’, and US congresswoman Michele Bachman tells us breathlessly that black slavery wasn’t so bad because it gave children an opportunity to grow up in a “family environment”. Such blindness is as typical as it is incomprehensible. Things Didn’t Improve Much After Slavery was Abolished Countless black men were either openly beaten to death or quietly murdered, for the crime of looking at a white woman. Often, it was the police who did the killing, and even the FBI mostly ignored the terrorism and lawlessness, preferring to find ‘communists’ instead. Many thousands of black people were lynched in the US – murders committed publicly by the white community, usually because they accused blacks of “sexual madness and excess”. Often, just looking at a white woman was a reason to be killed. Racial Segregation is Institutionalised in the US Segregation laws were enforced in the US until the 1960s and 1970s, mandating separate and inferior treatment of blacks compared to those provided for white Americans. The most important laws required that public schools, public places and public transportation, like trains and buses, have separate facilities for whites and blacks. It was only the bitterly-contested Civil Rights Act of 1964 that finally tried to prevent outright discrimination and segregation against black people – having to ride in the back of the bus, not being served in ‘white’ restaurants, forbidden to use public facilities, colored children unable to attend ‘white’ schools. But even with this, America has always remained deeply racist, and blacks were routinely abused and murdered with little recourse to justice. In fact, the last public vigilante lynching of a black man occurred in the US in the 1970s – not so long ago. And today, thirty years after the civil rights era, the United States still remains a residentially segregated society in which Blacks and Whites inhabit different neighborhoods of vastly different quality. Racism in America is Alive and Well Today Throughout its history, the US – and Americans – have always been alarmingly racist. The situation was worse in some parts of the nation than others, but that is neither excuse nor explanation. Segregation, racial discrimination, and expressions of white supremacy were all in strong evidence, as were anti-black violence, including lynchings and race riots. After the shooting in Arizona of a US politician, the the local sheriff said, “The anger, the hatred, the bigotry that goes on in this country is getting to be outrageous. Pretty soon we’re not going to be able to find reasonable, decent people willing to subject themselves to serve in public office.” In a Der Spiegel Editorial, on January 9, 2011, the newspaper wrote of: “the inherent aggressiveness of the American political culture, an aggressiveness that is itself anchored in a public that’s fearful of change and hostile to opposing viewpoints. Americans are looking at themselves in a mirror distorted by hatred and fear.” In one famous event, that of the damage to the city of New Orleans by Hurricane Katrina, US media showed photos of white people roaming through their devastated city, with captions like “homeless citizens looking for food and water”. But an almost identical photo of blacks carried the caption “Blacks looting the shops in New Orleans”. So the whites were just looking for food, but the blacks were theives wanting to steal TV sets. In the US today, salaries for whites are much higher than for blacks, and the percentage of assets owned by blacks is minuscule compared to the white population. Many other inequities are common, mostly based on race. And today, the racism continues essentially unabated against the blacks. More than two-thirds of all people in US prisons are black or Hispanic, and yet they make up only a small part of the total population. It is difficult to avoid concluding these people are targeted.
南海难道要有一战? 东盟秘书长称南海九段线非法 外交部网站 2015/03/11 16:22南海九段线 问:据报道,东盟秘书长黎良明近日接受媒体采访时表示,中国在南海的“九段线”主张不合法,并称南海正在发生的一些事情使南海形势进一步复杂化,影响东盟共同体建设等。请问中方对此有何评论? 答:中国在南海的主权和相关权利主张有充分的历史和法理依据,在南海问题上的有关立场是明确和一贯的。中方支持东盟共同体建设,但东盟并非南海有关争议当事方。 黎良明先生身为东盟秘书长,在南海问题上多次发表不符合事实且与其身份极为不符的倾向性言论,严重背离了东盟及其秘书处在有关问题上理应坚持的中立立场,损害了东盟作为一个地区性国际组织的形象。东盟不是某一个国家的东盟,它是属于东盟大家庭的。我们奉劝黎良明先生做好东盟秘书长职责内的事情,恪守东盟在南海问题上的中立立场,不要假公济私,多为中国—东盟关系健康发展发挥积极作用。 问:据报道,9日,美国总统奥巴马以委内瑞拉威胁美国家安全和对外政策为由,宣布对委实施紧急状态。委内瑞拉总统马杜罗强烈反对外部干涉,敦促全国代表大会宣布对美实施紧急状态,并召回驻美代办。美委关系再度紧张。中方对此有何评论? 答:我们注意到有关报道。中方一贯主张各国在平等、相互尊重和互不干涉内政的基础上发展关系。这也是世界公认的国际关系准则,适用于包括委美关系在内的任何国与国关系,应得到切实遵守。 委内瑞拉是拉美地区重要国家,委内瑞拉内部事务应该由委内瑞拉人民自主解决。中方相信,委内瑞拉政府和人民有能力处理好本国内部事务,维护国家稳定和经济社会发展。希望委美双方在平等、相互尊重和互不干涉内政的基础上处理彼此关系,这不仅符合委美两国和两国人民的共同利益,也有利于维护拉美地区的和平与稳定。 会后,有记者问及:据报道,斯诺登日前披露的文件显示,新西兰政府通讯安全局通过电子监控方式搜集包括中、日、朝和南太岛国在内约20个国家的通讯数据,并与美、英、加、澳等国分享。中方对此有何评论? 洪磊表示,中方对有关报道表示关切。中方高度重视网络安全问题,坚定维护本国安全利益,将继续采取措施保障自身网络和信息安全。 当前,网络空间乱象丛生,中方主张通过对话解决分歧,同时倡导制定各方普遍接受的网络空间行为规范。
襄阳大会--哇哈哈~笑死我了 神雕末年,襄阳,蒙古大军围城。郭府议事厅,郭靖,杨过,中原群雄,黄蓉产后虚弱,未与会。 郭靖:各位,此次蒙古大军来势汹汹,特召大家来商议退敌之计。 杨过:我去烧了鞑子粮草,饿死他们;大武:我去骚扰蒙古大营,困死他们; 小武:我去准备棍木礌石,砸死他们;丐帮:我去找他们要饭吃,穷死他们; 少林:我派几百和尚念经,吵死他们;。。。。 郭靖:大家曰的都有理,执行力才是第一,还不快去! 众人欲散之际,厅门大开,进来一人。 众人皆怒目而视,原来是前些年因勾结金国和铁掌帮被赶出丐帮的彭长老。鲁有脚上前大骂:“操你妈,叛徒,你还有脸到这里来,黄帮主不在,老子揍死你!”。 彭长老不慌不忙的说道:“我虽离开丐帮,可我仍然是大宋子民,国家兴亡,匹夫有责。当此危难之际,我有一计,可不死一人,保襄阳无恙。”郭靖忙上前道:“哦,彭先生请坐,说来听听。” 彭长老慨然道:“老夫当年离开丐帮,欲痛改前非。尝游历四方,遍极南极北极西之地,访仙山海岛道德之士,心中若有所悟,在洞中苦思七日七夜,猛地里豁然贯通,领会了天下和平是大趋势,民主宪政才是最大的普世价值。” 郭靖茫然道:“彭先生说啥?这里都是文盲,你有什么计快说啊,蒙古大军就在眼前啦!” 彭长老笑曰:“郭大侠莫急,灯不拨不亮,理不辩不明,磨刀不误砍柴功。我曾游历西域,遇一奇士,名山中老人,赠我天书一部,遍载蒙军战法战例,今献于郭大侠。” 郭靖喜道:“彭先生有心了,在此谢过。然本人愚钝,不识梵文,且远水不及近火,还请先生指教?”
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