With nothing more
important to do than make pompous pronouncements on an already resolved
criminal case in Florida, a United Nations sub-group on racism called on the United States government late last week to
finalize the ongoing review of the case involving the controversial shooting of
black Trayvon Martin by the media-designated “white Hispanic” neighborhood
watchman George Zimmerman.
The United
Nations Working Group of Experts of People of African Descent (the UN needs to
put together a Working Group of Experts on Creating Group Names That Make
Better Acronyms) released a statement calling upon “the US Government to
examine its laws that could have discriminatory impact on African Americans,
and to ensure that such laws are in full compliance with the country’s
international legal obligations and relevant standards,” said “human rights expert” Verene Shepherd, who
currently heads the group of experts (the UN News article mentions quite often
that they are experts, to reassure you that as experts they are surely qualified
to lecture the least racist nation in the world about how racist we are).
This comes after
a trial in which Zimmerman was found innocent of all charges, and after a
separate FBI investigation found no racism in Zimmerman’s motivation. That
wasn’t enough for the experts at UNWGEPAD, who must have their hands full
keeping up with trials involving people of African descent in every country
around the world. Nor was it enough for Attorney General Eric Holder, who is
mulling over a federal civil action against Zimmerman, and who instituted a tip
line for Americans who want to act as Holder’s informants and dig up some
useful dirt on Zimmerman.
“The Trayvon
Martin case has highlighted the importance of the need to review those existing
laws and policies that can have a discriminatory effect on the basis of race,
as African Americans become more vulnerable to such discrimination,” pontificated
Ms. Shepherd. Her statement didn’t specify which American laws and policies are
discriminatory, although she may have had in mind the ‘Stand Your Ground” law
that sparked so much misplaced outrage here in the States. That law had nothing
to do with the Martin-Zimmerman case; it was invoked by neither the prosecution
nor the defense. It’s unclear how, as an expert, Ms. Shepherd overlooked this
detail.
“States are
required to take effective measures to review governmental, national and local
policies, and to amend, rescind or nullify any laws and regulations which have
the effect of creating or perpetuating racial discrimination wherever it
exists,” added Mutuma Ruteere, the UN’s “Special Rapporteur on contemporary
forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance” since
November 2011 (I don’t know how he gets all that on his business card). Thanks
for reminding us from your office in Switzerland of something we already know,
Mr. Ruteere, but as an expert, surely
you are aware that the United States has already been spectacularly effective at
eliminating racial discrimination. We have a black President.
The Group’s experts, among other activities, visit countries
– often First World countries like Spain, Portugal, and Belgium, because you
know, that’s where racism is most heavily concentrated, as well as the most
happening nightlife – to “facilitate in-depth understanding of the situation of
people of African descent” in various regions of the world and to focus on
promoting “full and effective access to health, education and justice by people of African descent.” [Emphasis added]
“Justice,” for those unfamiliar with the language of the left, means “social
justice” and economic redistribution for the oppressed non-white peoples of the
world – in other words, racial payback.
I’m no expert like the experts at UNWGEPAD, but it seems
to me that if they are serious about addressing racism, xenophobia, and
intolerance involving minorities and people of African descent (and by the way,
aren’t we all ultimately people of African descent?), they could focus less on
one shooting in the United States that has already been judged non-racist, and
more on the slaughter of black Christians in Nigeria by Boko Haram, or the slaughter
of Egyptian Christians at the hands of the Muslim Brotherhood, or the savage
slaughter of minority white farmers by South African blacks, or the
modern-day slavery being carried out in Arab countries.
If they insist on focusing on the plight of Americans of African descent, perhaps
they could address the slaughter of black gun victims at the hands of other
blacks in strictly gun-controlled Chicago, or the tragic epidemic of fatherless
black households, or the disproportionately high rate of abortions in the black
community, or the widespread problem of gangs, or the entertainment industry’s
lucrative promotion of gangstas and drug dealers as black role models.
The “experts” at the United Nations Working Group of Experts of People of African Descent, like
the UN itself, serve no real-world function. They occasionally travel
somewhere on a fact-finding trip, then come back to their nice offices in Geneva
or the UN and write official, bloodless reports and recommendations that are
passed around in attractive folders to useless bureaucrats far removed from the
brutal reality of the strong massacring the weak in distant corners of the earth.
For some reason, savages committing genocide don’t bother to read those
reports. The fact that UNWGEPAD took the time to lecture the United States on the urgency to
finish its witch-hunt against the acquitted George Zimmerman speaks volumes
about their misplaced priorities and ineffectual work.
(This article originally appeared here on FrontPage Magazine, 9/9/13)
