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United Nations calls out U.S. for “racist demonstrations, overtly racist slogans, chants and salutes”

Locally, Mason City councilwoman Janet Solberg has accused “racists and kooks” of causing problems – but never backed up her claim with proof.  Maybe she was right, as the U.N. alleges?

GENEVA – Alleged racism in the U.S. has “alarmed” a committee at the United Nations, prompting the body to call out the world’s greatest nation to do more to combat the supposed epidemic of hate and violence.

The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) has called on the Government of the United States of America, as well as high-level politicians and public officials, to unequivocally and unconditionally reject and condemn racist hate speech and crimes in Charlottesville and throughout the country.

In a decision issued under its ‘early warning and urgent action’ procedure, the Committee — which monitors implementation of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination* — stated “there should be no place in the world for racist white supremacist ideas or any similar ideologies that reject the core human rights principles of human dignity and equality.”

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“We are alarmed by the racist demonstrations, with overtly racist slogans, chants and salutes by white nationalists, neo-Nazis, and the Ku Klux Klan, promoting white supremacy and inciting racial discrimination and hatred”, said CERD Chairperson Anastasia Crickley.

In addition to the criminal investigation of the individual who ploughed his car into a crowd of peaceful protestors killing Ms. Heather Heyer, the UN experts asked the US authorities to undertake concrete measures “to address the root causes of the proliferation of such racist manifestations.”

“We call on the US Government to investigate thoroughly the phenomenon of racial discrimination targeting, in particular, people of African descent, ethnic or ethno-religious minorities, and migrants,” added Ms. Crickley.

Acting under its early warning procedure, CERD also called on the US to ensure that the rights to freedom of expression, association and peaceful assembly are not exercised with the aim of destroying or denying the rights and freedoms of others. It also asked US to provide the necessary guarantees so that such rights are not misused to promote racist hate speech and racist crimes.

A Mason City home that was struck by racist graffiti back in 2011. The house has since been torn down.

Locally, the issue has reared its ugly head in Mason City as recently as last year, when racism and “kooks” were blamed for chasing away a gargantuan hog kill plant in Mason City, a charge made by Dr. Ron Prestage and echoed by smell-sense-deficient councilwoman Janet Solberg in quotes to the Des Moines Register.  Solberg was never able to substantiate her claim of racism after her emails were scanned for evidence, and she was called upon to resign for her attacks on citizens.  Back in 2011, vandals struck a Mason City home where African-Americans lived and left disgusting, racist words on the front of the house in spray paint.

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