President Jimmy Carter’s interview:
The 39th President of
US, Jimmy Carter told in an interview in HardBall in MSNBC, and mentioned that
the persecution of Arabs by the Israel is the worst human right abuses he
knows. Mr. Obama,
you should follow the example of President Jimmy Carter.
So Mr. Obama, before you come and preach Human Rights issues here, tell Israel to abolish all apartheid policies against Arabs, and tell it in front of the:
1). the pro-Israeli lobby in the US, the American Israeli Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) which you promised unshakeable commitment of support during your presidential campaign.
2). all cabinet ministers in the Israeli parliament.
So Mr. Obama, before you come and preach Human Rights issues here, tell Israel to abolish all apartheid policies against Arabs, and tell it in front of the:
1). the pro-Israeli lobby in the US, the American Israeli Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) which you promised unshakeable commitment of support during your presidential campaign.
2). all cabinet ministers in the Israeli parliament.
3). the US congress
If you cannot do it, then don’t come here and preach Human Rights issues. I have more respect for President Carter than you, Mr. Obama.
If you cannot do it, then don’t come here and preach Human Rights issues. I have more respect for President Carter than you, Mr. Obama.
I acknowledge that an individual is subjected to
some disparities with regards to which political party he belongs (whether govt
or opposition), and which ethnic group. But things over here are way much
better than what Israel has been doing to the Palestinans. He (Obama) is a
strong supporter of Israeli apartheid policies against Palestinan Arabs, but
comes here and speaks about equality and human rights for all. It is better for
Obama with the title of “the most powerful man in the world” to urge his strongest
and closest ally Israel to stop all apartheid policies and discrimination
against Palestinan Arabs before speaking about equality and human rights over
here. Obama, by behaving the way he did, is simply a hypocrite.
HR
violations of the US under Obama admistration, report from Press TV:
Steve Lendman, an
American author and activist, says the United States has violated human rights
more than any other country in the history of the world. Lendman made the
remarks in an interview with Press TV as US President Barack Obama, during his trip to
Malaysia, urged the country to work more on the issue of Human rights.
“There’s a recognition by the Malaysian government that more work needs to be done,” Obama said referring to the issue of human rights in Malaysia in a joint news conference with the Malaysian Prime Minister.
“No nation in world history has abused human rights more than America. No President more than Obama is more lawless,” Lendman said. “No President is a war criminal more multiple times over than Obama. No nation attacks the rights of Muslims more than America,” he added.
Lendman also accused Obama and his administration of launching wars on Islam in several countries, including Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Syria. Lendman who is also a columnist and radio host said that Obama’s four-country tour in Asia is aimed at aligning US allies in the region against China.
“Obama’s agenda is the same as previous presidents but more so unchallenged US dominance how?
“There’s a recognition by the Malaysian government that more work needs to be done,” Obama said referring to the issue of human rights in Malaysia in a joint news conference with the Malaysian Prime Minister.
“No nation in world history has abused human rights more than America. No President more than Obama is more lawless,” Lendman said. “No President is a war criminal more multiple times over than Obama. No nation attacks the rights of Muslims more than America,” he added.
Lendman also accused Obama and his administration of launching wars on Islam in several countries, including Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Syria. Lendman who is also a columnist and radio host said that Obama’s four-country tour in Asia is aimed at aligning US allies in the region against China.
“Obama’s agenda is the same as previous presidents but more so unchallenged US dominance how?
Anyway possible:
aligning nations by bulling them by pressuring them, by threatening them and by
eliminating independent nations and by substituting them pro-western
subservient vassal states."
And
African-American still suffer racism in America, despite Obama becoming the
President.
Report
from Press TV:
Blacks
doing worse in US job market
African-Americans are twice as likely as whites to be unemployed in
the United States, the National Urban League says in its latest State of Black
America report.According to the annual report, called “One Nation Underemployed: Jobs Rebuild America,” the unemployment rate for blacks was 12 percent in February, compared to 5.8 percent for whites.
For African-American workers, the underemployment rate was 20.5 percent, the report said, compared to 18.4 percent for Hispanic workers and 11.8 percent for white workers.
"Many Americans are being left behind and that includes African-Americans and Latinos who are being disproportionately left behind by the job creation that we see," National Urban League President Marc Morial said.
This year's equality index for African-Americans stands at 71.2 percent, compared to last year's index of 71.0 percent, the National Urban League said. The economic portion of the index dropped to 55.5 percent from 56.3 percent.
When it comes to income equality and unemployment equality, the report ranked large American cities from most equal to least equal.
The most income equal city for blacks was Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, Calif., where the median black household income was $44,572, while the median white household brought in $57,252, the report said.
The US labor market has faced serious problems in recent years, a study found last month. The findings by Alan Krueger, a former White House economist and two of his colleagues at Princeton University, shows only 11 percent of long-term unemployed people in the US will ever regain steady full-time employment.
Long-term unemployment, defined as joblessness extending longer than six months, has been one of the defining features of the 2007-09 US recession.
Racial
disparities in education is deep-rooted in the US
Report
from Press TV:
Eric Draitser, a syndicated columnist from the New York City has
joined Press TV’s Top 5 program to discuss the racial disparities in the US
public education system. What follows is an approximate transcription of the interview.
Press TV: Mr. Draitser you just heard our correspondent’s report on this disparity between races when it comes to education. How much of it do you think results from an institutionalization of racism rather than mismanagement?
Draitser: Well, it is a combination of many factors. I think that any complex social problem really needs to be evaluated from multiple perspectives.
Of course the disparities between the races in regards to education have deep roots not only in the way in which the education is funded but also in the so-called education reform movement.
It is interesting to note, as your reporter there noted that the report does not give any specific explanations as to why such disparities exist but as a former educator and as somebody who has engaged with these issues I will tell you that one of the principle factors that is contributing to this ever-growing gap between white and minority students is the privatization of public education.
That is to say taking public education and capitalizing on it through a variety of means whether that is the so-called standardized testing model and the common core state standards, whether it is the Charter School Movement which is bankrolled by Wall Street and powerful financial establishments, whether it is the so-called Alternative Certification Movement that is Teach for America and the Teaching Fellows Programs and Math for America and all of these other programs that are designed to bring in inexperienced young, primarily white, teachers into the inner cities into the low-income minority neighborhoods and that creates some of the statistics that the report cites, such as schools that have teachers with less experience working with the most challenged students in the most challenging areas and of course all of these factors are ignored by the department of education, precisely because the Obama administration, just like the Bush administration before it, has been a principle champion of Charter Schools and privatization, one of the main contributing factors to this economic disparity and what I would argue is a re-segregation of public education.
