China on our human rights abuses
You know how we say the Chinese are filled with human rights abuses? Well they think the same of us, aparently as I found in this Xinhua news article [Xinhua is the equivalent of the AP in China]. I can't even give highlights of the article, you'll really have to read it yourself. They really did a great job piecing bits together to create a rather dismal picture. Below is the article, enjoy. [and don't hate the Chinese for it!]
Racial discrimination deeply rooted in US: China's report
www.chinaview.cn 2005-03-03 13:28:40
BEIJING, March 3 (Xinhuanet) -- Racial discrimination has been deeply rooted in the United States, permeating into every aspects of society, said the Human Rights Record of the United States in 2004 released by the Information Office of the State Council of China Thursday.
According to the record, the colored people are generally poor,with living condition much worse than the white. According to a report of The Guardian of Britain on Oct. 9, 2004, the average netassets of a white family is 88,000 US dollars in 2002, 11 times of a family of Latin American ancestry, or nearly 15 times of a family of African ancestry.
Statistics show that the number of black people living in poverty is three times that of the white. The average life expectancy of the black is six years shorter than the white.
People of minority ethnic groups are biased against in employment and occupation, the record said. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission of the United States received 29,000 complaints in 2003 of racial bias in the workplace. Statistics provided by the United States Department of Labor also suggest that by November 2004, the unemployment rate for black and white people is 10.8 percent and 4.7 percent respectively.
Teenagers from at least 38 countries work like slaves (EFE San Francisco, Sept. 26, 2004). Out of 45 million people who are unable to afford Medicare in the United States, 7 million are African-Americans, accounting for about one fifth of the total African-Americans in the States. The proportion is 77 percent higher than that for the white people. The Declaration of Independence said all men are created equal, so the gap between black and white people is simply an insult to the founding essenceof the United States, according to the US News and World Report onMarch 29, 2004.
The record said that apartheid runs rampant at schools of the United States. One in eight southern black students attends a school that is 99 percent black. About a third attend schools thatare at least 90 percent minority. In the Northeast, by contrast, more than half of blacks attend such schools, the Washington Post reported on May 17, 2004.
According to the record, racism recurs on campus of American universities. Fascist slogans and posters promoting superiority ofwhite people, along with threats by weapon or words were found on college campuses including University of California at Berkeley. Protests were sparked off when Santa Rosa Junior College in California published anti-Semitism opinions in a column article inits campus newspaper and the chat room of its website were dominated by white-superior surfers. At Dartmouth College, white girl students auctioned off black slaves in fund-raising activities. At the University of Southern Mississippi, hordes of white students assaulted four black students, chanting racist slogans after a football match was over. At Olivet College of Michigan State, where there are only 55 black students, 51 of the black students quitted school after racial cases of violence or harassment (see The China Press, a Chinese language newspaper published in New York, on April 17, 2004).
The record showed that racial prejudice has made social conflicts to become acute, causing a rise in hate crimes. Racial prejudice, most often directed at black people, was behind more than half of the nation's 7,489 reported hate crime incidents in 2003, the FBI said on Nov. 22 2004. Race bias was behind 3,844 of the total cases in 2003, FBI claimed after having made statistics of hate crimes handled by 16 percent of the law-enforcement organizations in the States. Reports of hate crimes motivated by anti-black bias totaled 2,548 in 2003, accounting for 51.4 percentof the total, more than double the total hate crimes against all other racial groups. There were 3,150 black victims in these reports, according to the annual FBI figures. And with regard to the attribute of race, among the 6,934 reported offenders, 62.3 percent were white.
In a related development, because of the "lingering atmosphere of fear" stemming from the Sept. 11 attacks and fallout from the Iraq War, there were 1,019 anti-Muslim incidents in the United States in 2003, representing a 69 percent increase. There were 221incidents in 2003 of anti-muslim bias in California, tripled a year ago, Los Angeles Times reported on May 3.
Racial prejudice is ubiquitous in judicial fields, the record said. The proportion for persons of colored races being sentenced or being imprisoned is notably higher than whites. In accordance with a report published in Nov. 2004 by the US Department of Justice, colored races accounted for over 70 percent of inmates inthe United States.
By the end of 2003, out of 1.4 million prisoners who are serving jail terms above one year at the federal or state prisons,44 percent were blacks. Blacks who are arrested are 3 times more likely to be imprisoned than whites who are arrested. White felonsare more likely to get probation than blacks. (see the State BlackAmerica 2004, issued by National Urban League on March 24, 2004).
The record said after the Sept. 11 incident, the United States openly restricts the rights of citizens under the cloak of homeland security, and uses diverse means including wire tapping of phone conversations and secret investigations, checks on all secret files, and monitoring transfers of fund and cash flows to supervise activities of its citizens, in which, people of ethnic minority groups, foreigners and immigrants become main victims.
Statistics show that after the Sept. 11 attacks, 32 million were investigated out of racial prejudice concern throughout the United States. Among the people being investigated out of racial prejudice concern, African-Americans made up 47 percent, followed by people of Latino and Asian origins. White Americans only account for 3 percent.
The US Department of Homeland Security announced in Nov. 2004 that 157,281 immigrants were repatriated in one year, up 8 percentfrom a year ago, a record high. The number of foreigners arrested without any documents also went up by 112 percent according to a report by Argentina La Nacion, Nov. 21, 2004.
Another report said starting from last year, many American cities such as San Francisco, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Miami, Saint Paul, Denver Kansas and Portland, dozens of immigrants from Mexico or other countries are arrested each day and are forced to wear fetters like suspects. The practice of treating illegal immigrants like criminals has become a national trend. The limit in the definition of terrorists and illegal immigrants has become very blurry, the record said.
On an end note, my brief thoughts on the Chinese being racist, they are outright racist toward black folks, they will blatenly speak badly about them, but still the kids are wild about the NBA. Go figure. Additionally, my friends who are Asian-American and speak English just like I do cannot get a job tutoring Chinese. To apply for these jobs they must see your photo to prove your whitey white honky ness. Love it. I just applied for one! I could make $15 to $20 an hour, so hope for the best.
Racial discrimination deeply rooted in US: China's report
www.chinaview.cn 2005-03-03 13:28:40
BEIJING, March 3 (Xinhuanet) -- Racial discrimination has been deeply rooted in the United States, permeating into every aspects of society, said the Human Rights Record of the United States in 2004 released by the Information Office of the State Council of China Thursday.
According to the record, the colored people are generally poor,with living condition much worse than the white. According to a report of The Guardian of Britain on Oct. 9, 2004, the average netassets of a white family is 88,000 US dollars in 2002, 11 times of a family of Latin American ancestry, or nearly 15 times of a family of African ancestry.
Statistics show that the number of black people living in poverty is three times that of the white. The average life expectancy of the black is six years shorter than the white.
People of minority ethnic groups are biased against in employment and occupation, the record said. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission of the United States received 29,000 complaints in 2003 of racial bias in the workplace. Statistics provided by the United States Department of Labor also suggest that by November 2004, the unemployment rate for black and white people is 10.8 percent and 4.7 percent respectively.
Teenagers from at least 38 countries work like slaves (EFE San Francisco, Sept. 26, 2004). Out of 45 million people who are unable to afford Medicare in the United States, 7 million are African-Americans, accounting for about one fifth of the total African-Americans in the States. The proportion is 77 percent higher than that for the white people. The Declaration of Independence said all men are created equal, so the gap between black and white people is simply an insult to the founding essenceof the United States, according to the US News and World Report onMarch 29, 2004.
The record said that apartheid runs rampant at schools of the United States. One in eight southern black students attends a school that is 99 percent black. About a third attend schools thatare at least 90 percent minority. In the Northeast, by contrast, more than half of blacks attend such schools, the Washington Post reported on May 17, 2004.
According to the record, racism recurs on campus of American universities. Fascist slogans and posters promoting superiority ofwhite people, along with threats by weapon or words were found on college campuses including University of California at Berkeley. Protests were sparked off when Santa Rosa Junior College in California published anti-Semitism opinions in a column article inits campus newspaper and the chat room of its website were dominated by white-superior surfers. At Dartmouth College, white girl students auctioned off black slaves in fund-raising activities. At the University of Southern Mississippi, hordes of white students assaulted four black students, chanting racist slogans after a football match was over. At Olivet College of Michigan State, where there are only 55 black students, 51 of the black students quitted school after racial cases of violence or harassment (see The China Press, a Chinese language newspaper published in New York, on April 17, 2004).
The record showed that racial prejudice has made social conflicts to become acute, causing a rise in hate crimes. Racial prejudice, most often directed at black people, was behind more than half of the nation's 7,489 reported hate crime incidents in 2003, the FBI said on Nov. 22 2004. Race bias was behind 3,844 of the total cases in 2003, FBI claimed after having made statistics of hate crimes handled by 16 percent of the law-enforcement organizations in the States. Reports of hate crimes motivated by anti-black bias totaled 2,548 in 2003, accounting for 51.4 percentof the total, more than double the total hate crimes against all other racial groups. There were 3,150 black victims in these reports, according to the annual FBI figures. And with regard to the attribute of race, among the 6,934 reported offenders, 62.3 percent were white.
In a related development, because of the "lingering atmosphere of fear" stemming from the Sept. 11 attacks and fallout from the Iraq War, there were 1,019 anti-Muslim incidents in the United States in 2003, representing a 69 percent increase. There were 221incidents in 2003 of anti-muslim bias in California, tripled a year ago, Los Angeles Times reported on May 3.
Racial prejudice is ubiquitous in judicial fields, the record said. The proportion for persons of colored races being sentenced or being imprisoned is notably higher than whites. In accordance with a report published in Nov. 2004 by the US Department of Justice, colored races accounted for over 70 percent of inmates inthe United States.
By the end of 2003, out of 1.4 million prisoners who are serving jail terms above one year at the federal or state prisons,44 percent were blacks. Blacks who are arrested are 3 times more likely to be imprisoned than whites who are arrested. White felonsare more likely to get probation than blacks. (see the State BlackAmerica 2004, issued by National Urban League on March 24, 2004).
The record said after the Sept. 11 incident, the United States openly restricts the rights of citizens under the cloak of homeland security, and uses diverse means including wire tapping of phone conversations and secret investigations, checks on all secret files, and monitoring transfers of fund and cash flows to supervise activities of its citizens, in which, people of ethnic minority groups, foreigners and immigrants become main victims.
Statistics show that after the Sept. 11 attacks, 32 million were investigated out of racial prejudice concern throughout the United States. Among the people being investigated out of racial prejudice concern, African-Americans made up 47 percent, followed by people of Latino and Asian origins. White Americans only account for 3 percent.
The US Department of Homeland Security announced in Nov. 2004 that 157,281 immigrants were repatriated in one year, up 8 percentfrom a year ago, a record high. The number of foreigners arrested without any documents also went up by 112 percent according to a report by Argentina La Nacion, Nov. 21, 2004.
Another report said starting from last year, many American cities such as San Francisco, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Miami, Saint Paul, Denver Kansas and Portland, dozens of immigrants from Mexico or other countries are arrested each day and are forced to wear fetters like suspects. The practice of treating illegal immigrants like criminals has become a national trend. The limit in the definition of terrorists and illegal immigrants has become very blurry, the record said.
On an end note, my brief thoughts on the Chinese being racist, they are outright racist toward black folks, they will blatenly speak badly about them, but still the kids are wild about the NBA. Go figure. Additionally, my friends who are Asian-American and speak English just like I do cannot get a job tutoring Chinese. To apply for these jobs they must see your photo to prove your whitey white honky ness. Love it. I just applied for one! I could make $15 to $20 an hour, so hope for the best.
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