Anjali Sharma
GG News Bureau
UNITED NATIONS, 15th Nov. UN Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, xenophobia and related intolerance Ashwini K.P on Tuesday called the United States to increase efforts to address “enduring systemic racism” at what is a critical juncture in the fight against discrimination.
Ms. Ashwini travelled across the US between 31 October and 14 November, from Detroit in Michigan to the Louisiana coast, also visited Los Angeles, Atlanta and Washington DC.
Ashwini K.P said after 14-day fact finding mission that mainstream America was more aware of systemic racism following the large scale racial protests of 2020 and the positive response from the Biden-Harris administration “to improve racial equality”.
She expressed shock at the “mutually reinforcing manifestations of systemic racism” she witnessed.
“These manifestations of racism impacted those from racially marginalized groups at every stage of their lives, historically, systematically and institutionally”, she said in her initial statement.
She presented her initial findings at a press conference in New York on Tuesday, told that “selective amnesia” was an issue in some states when it comes to reckoning with race.
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