Tell A Sistah Sumpting She Don't Know!!!!

As I stated in the title I am not about to tell you anything new. However I thought this was interesting and wanted to bring it to the people and mix in my opinion of course.


The American Civil Liberties Union today released a scathing preliminary analysis of a recent government report to a United Nations committee about the state of racial discrimination in the United States. The report was submitted to the U.N. Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) in Geneva.

Dennis Parker, Director of the ACLU's Racial Justice Program. “The report attempts to describe the state of race relations and intolerance in the United States, but it ignores the continuing persistence of structural racism and inequality in this country.

Now I gotta chuckle outta Dennis Parker. Mr. Parker did you actually think White America ( the gub’ment) would tell the truth and accept that racial equality in America is just a theory and not concept that is actually practiced. Hell the gub’ment is more concerned about healing the riff between the Sunni’s and Shiite’s than dealing with racial inequality here in America.

The International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, a treaty signed and ratified by the U.S. in 1994. All levels of U.S. government are required to comply with the treaty’s provisions, which require countries to review national, state-wide and local policies and to amend or repeal laws and regulations that create or perpetuate racial discrimination. Since ratification, the U.S. has submitted only one report in 2000 on its compliance with the treaty, which combined three overdue reports. The United States was due to submit additional reports in November 2003, but failed to meet the deadline. The recent U.S. submission combines two overdue reports covering 2000 - 2006.


The United States don’t give a damn. How they gon submit the reports late, and if they are documenting racial disparities for the last 6 years they betta have several reams of paper ready cause all kind of mess has went down in the past 6 years. I will not hold my breath to see if they document all the issues of racial inequities we face in the good ole USA.

According to the ACLU’s initial analysis, when the USA did submit a report it was full of misrepresentations and omissions. For example, the report states that reasons for disparities in incarceration rates between whites and minorities is related to criminal activity, but solid research by academic and government sources demonstrates the disparities are due to government policies and disparate treatment of minorities in the criminal justice system. Striking omissions in the report include no mention of the Hurricane Katrina aftermath; the “school to prison pipeline,” whereby the criminal justice system overzealously funnels students of color onto a path toward prison; or the dramatic increase in hate crimes and xenophobia in America. Moreover, despite the clear requirement to provide state-related information, the government only comprehensively reported on four states – Oregon, South Carolina, New Mexico, and Illinois – inexplicably neglecting to provide adequate information on racially diverse states such as California, Texas, New York, Florida, or the Gulf Coast states devastated by Hurricane Katrina. In addition, the U.S. submission fails to report on gender-related dimensions of racial discrimination and on the treatment of migrants and non-citizens.

Uh huh…. Tell a sistah sumpting she don’t know. I get money slips from people I know in jail on a regular basis. Not to mention the gap in the sentence structure, they quick to send a nucca up the river, and send “Conner” to rehab.

“We will continue to call on the U.S. government to live up to its promises to end racial discrimination and to meet its legal obligations to submit more comprehensive and accurate information to the CERD committee so that a productive dialogue can ensue,” said Bhatnagar.
All I can say to that is Good Luck!!!!!